Organizing Your Home

This is a workshop that will give you tips and ideas of ways to organize your home.  Tips for the attic, garage, basement, kids rooms, kitchen, family room and beyond.  Ideas you can take home and start using immediately.  Bring your own organizational challenges to the class and the instructor will give you suggestions to help you tackle any problem.   

General Organizing for Everyone 

This workshop will provide tips and ideas for tackling the day-to-day paper clutter that takes over, organizing clothes and accessories in your closets and organizing your kitchen to be more efficient.  A step-by-step process of how to organize any space will be explained. 

Tackling the Household Paper Clutter

 Too much paper got you down?  Then this workshop is for you.  What to do with all the paper that comes into your house is what this workshop is all about.  What should you keep and what should you throw out?  All your questions on paper will be answered by attending this class.  A special section on organizing all the paperwork that comes with having kids also. 

 Attics, Basements, Garages – Organize It All! 

This class is going to concentrate on the hardest areas to organize.  Those areas of your home that become the endless pits of stuff!  You’ll learn a foolproof way of going through the stuff, determining its destination, sorting and categorizing what’s left, and organizing and labeling what you are keeping.  Summer is a great time to get started on a project like this.  Learn how and you’ll be on your way!  P.S.  Husbands are invited to attend!! 

 Getting Ready for a Garage Sale

This class will walk you through all the necessary steps to have a successful garage sale.  All the tips and tricks of the trade will be explained.  You will learn the fair prices to mark your items and how to display your items so they are more appealing to the customer.   The instructor is very knowledgeable on the art of garage sales and will share all the inside secrets with you. 

Organize Your Kids

This workshop is for you if you are forever trying to get your kids organized.  Do they come in and drop everything at

the end of the day?  Do they have troubles figuring out what they are going to wear?  Is it a battle to get them to put

their things where they belong?  This class will teach you how to organize your kids so that it's easy for them to stay

organized.  

Household Cleaning 101 

This workshop is full of ideas for simple solutions to clean just about anything in your household.  Some of the cleaning products suggested are common household staples.  We will discuss cleaning routines, motivation, de-cluttering and other great tips for getting your house clean!

The Organized Family

Tips for families with busy active school aged kids.  We’ll discuss making organizing a family commitment and not just something Mom does!  You will learn how to handle the daily paperwork, extra-curricular paperwork, and artwork.  Suggestions on setting up routines and schedules plus how the kids can help with the chores. 

Registration Details

To register for classes at the Plainfield Park District, call (815) 436-8812 or go to www.PlainfieldParkDistrict.com

To register for classes at the Joliet Park District, call (815) 741-7275 or go to www.jolietpark.org

To register for classes at the Fox Valley Park District, go to www.foxvalleyparkdistrict.org .

To register for classes at Kankakee Community College, contact the Office of Corporate and Continuing Education by phone at 815-802-8200 or by email at dhdenson@kcc.edu.