A new school year for kids and college
students means keeping organizes
a must of staying focused on sc.
Jennifer Ross is a professional organizer
and owner of the Spruce Goose organizers.
She's here with tips on how
to keep our spaces organized.
Jennifer, how are you? I'm
great. I'm doing great. OK,
What is the first thing?
What's one thing that you've
got to do this for the school
year and staying organized.
Well, this is a great thing
to do for the young kids.
I know it's crazy in the mornin.
You're trying to get everything going.
If you could do this on
the weekend ahead of time,
have your kids pick out their
outfits for the week and then ty
can place them in these cubbies.
And so in the morning,
when everything's crazy,
they know right where to go.
You know that all your laundry's
done and you know they're happy.
You know, last thing you want
to do is on a Monday morning,
looking for things and pulling stuff out.
So on a Sunday, very leisurely,
you can put all this
together for the entire week,
and then you can just kind of breathe,
right? That's a lot, but a lot.
I love this. I like that.
OK, So what is this?
So these are organizers that you can use.
You can put them on your
shelves in the closet,
or you can put them in your dra.
And what we're doing is
filing clothes so you can,
you don't have to have these organizers.
You can just file without them.
But they're helpful.
You know, the first thing
that comes to mind is we've got drawers, yes.
But this is a little better bece
you can just see what's going o.
You can see everything that's going on.
Normally we have things stacked
and we're pulling things out and
everything gets all messed up.
But the filing system makes it
so that you can see everything.
It's nice and neat.
You can take things out,
put them back. And you know what
this would be good for?
Jennifer is like a college,
new college student,
great for college.
You may not have a lot of drawe.
Great. They've got this.
And so you're organized.
And you can also find,
how long have you been doing th?
I've been doing this for 10 yea,
over 10 years actually.
And you keep coming up with more
and more ideas, great ideas.
What is this? Well,
this is just this flat.
So you can see that it's great
for college because you've got
you can just flatten it out.
You're not using it.
That's all that is.
And then these are labels that u
can put on the slide on and off.
So they're super handy.
Labels is important. Labels
are important because when theye
up high, you can't tell what you
don't know what it is, right.
We're going to bring in Kristenl
and she's going to show us how to fold.
And I got to tell you, Jennifer,
I am the world's worst. You kno,
when I'm when I'm at Macy's or whatever,
I get it and it looks really ni.
And then I look at it to see if it fits.
And then I'm like trying to put
it back on the shelf, right.
So maybe this will help me.
You could have this contraption here.
Kristen's going to show you how to do it.
And look at how easy that is.
It's super easy. And then you can get
it in the format so you can fil.
Oh, look at that.
That is super, super easy.
OK, Jennifer, you think I can do this?
Anyone can do this.
Anybody can do well, you know w?
We're going to put this to the .
We'll see.
While I am doing this,
how did you come up with the
name Spruce Goose?
Because the first thing I
think of is Howard Hughes.
Howard
Hughes had the airplane, the Spruce Goose.
And I was visiting the Spruce Ge
right about the time when I was trying
to come up with a name for my business
and I and it just hit me Spruce,
like Spruce things up and Goose
like Mother Goose in the home.
So I thought, just thought that's it.
I knew it had something
to do with Howard Hughes.
And then, OK, how did I do?
You did perfect.
You're giving me a B plus back there.
But anyway, so I did good.
Now if you don't want to buy
one of those contraptions,
everybody's got a cutting board.
Everyone has a cutting board.
And Kristen came.
So Kristen, you got to tell me
because I don't know what you're
going to do with this, but I thk
it's going to be somewhat magic.
It's going to have to be.
And you can have your kids do ts
after you get the laundry done.
It's super easy.
You can get the kids involved.
Kids. Yeah.
You want them to develop those good habits,
how to do their own laundry,
how to put it away.
How to file it in their drawersr
in their in their organizers. Yu
know what are you are your magi.
Kristen, you you got some magic hands.
There is a very high likelihoodt
I will not be able to to do thi.
But let's see here, Okay.
So we got nice shirt.
Nice shirt, by the way.
So we put a little cutting board here
and the first thing I guess is t
arms and you want to make it straight.
OK, yeah. Make it straight all the way down,
because that way you'll end up h
a triangle and not a square. OK.
I think that's good there. Perf.
And then pull this thing out.
Pull that out while you hold on.
OK, we'll go here. Great. OK.
Wow. Look at that. Look at.
Look at that.
OK How can people,
how can people reach you?
Easy. The Spruce Goose T x.com.
And also the Spruce Goose on Facebook. OK,
all right. Even you can do this
cutting board, believe it or no.
Great day to say.
We'll be right back.
I love this thing.