Organizing Buddy

Welcome

Welcome to OrganizingBuddy.com. This site is brand new; I only just started it. I wanted to set up this website, because I would like to find people to motivate each other with organizing. I find it difficult sometimes to find a motivation for organizing at home. Or, I would like to connect with people just to find some clever ideas to use at home. I also would like to upload some templates, that i worked out for my home and home office keeping expenses, some nice reminders, etc., some calendar ideas.

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What I would like to achieve eventually is to connect with each other perhaps even via Messenger, or Skype, and talk with each other, meanwhile organizing. I would find this especially useful, when I have to organize my old clothes. I have real difficulties to throw out my old clothes, it literally exhaust me. It would be nice if I could talk with someone, who has the same problem, or who feels the same. Please check out my video below, and please comment.

PLEASE DO DROP ME AN EMAIL OR JOIN ME AT MY FORUM.

Downloads

I have many more templates that I would like to post, I just don't have more time today. Please check back soon.

TRAVEL CHECKLIST

This is my TRAVEL LIST that I use. It contains all the things that you tend to forget when you are about to travel, and it's really nice to have it in a list alltogether. Not mentioning how useful it is. I didn’t put the obvious things on it, that I do not forget, but mainly the things that I do forget. Actually, I was keep updating this during each of my travel, so you could get the essence of my experience, without the frustration! I hope everybody can use it well. Please comment on this on my forum.

PocketPC cellphone reminder

iPhone reminder

I have this cell phone reminder on my front door and on my study door. For me it really works. There are all this 'doorganizer' that you can buy in the organizing shops, but for me leaving the cell phone in this thing wouldn’t really work. The reasons are, that (1) I charge the phone upstairs in its cradle, (2) it's a Pocket PC too, so I sync it also quite often with my laptop, so it needs to be next to my laptop. so leaving the phone itself on the door, just doesn't work with me. also, for me just writing down the text wouldn't work either, cause I need the image. When I'm in a rush, the text don’t get to my brain really, only the image. At the end, I laminated it. (I have a laminating machine at home.)

I've made this mobile phone reminder in the form of a doorknob hanger with powerpoint because I find it easy to do graphical things with it. I've put the powerpoint version here so you can alter it if you wish. The PDF file you can download if you don't have powerpoint.

travel reminder to take camera

I keep this reminder in my suitcase. It happened so many times with me, that I forgot the memory card, or the battery to my camera. That's not good! Anyway, so I wrote these reminders for myself, and keep it in my suitcase. It really works for me. The bigger the type, the better the reminder! -) I also have a little reminder on the camera itself, that I just simply dymo-taped onto the camera. And one on the case of the camera. Just not taking any chance, I guess… -)

I will later post the pictures of the reminders here on the website too.

Pictures

This is my nicely organized make-up table.

I have a cell phone reminder like this on my front door and on my study door. For me it really works. There are all this 'doorganizer' that you can buy in the organizing shops, but for me leaving the cell phone in this thing wouldn't really work. The reasons are, that (1) I charge the phone upstairs in its cradle, (2) it's a Pocket PC too, so I sync it also quite often with my laptop, so it needs to be next to my laptop. So leaving the phone itself on the door just doesn't work with me. Also, for me just writing down the text wouldn't work either, because I need the image. When I'm in a rush, the text doesn't get to my brain really, only the image. At the end, I laminated it. (I have a laminating machine at home.)

These are my shoes in shoe-boxes. I made pictures of the shoes, then printed the pics out, cut, and labeled them. Easy, fast, cheap, and it fits into any angle. I actually created a template for this, so the pictures of the shoes just easily can be inserted into it. If someone would like to have the template, I would happily email it. Just drop me an email.

This is my self-printed calendar in the kitchen. I printed it out simply from Outlook. I rather like mine than one that you can buy in shops, as I can put my own events into it, and then it stays in it, and i dont need to write it down again. So its there and repeated every year with birthdays, with anniversaries, and with annual events. I really like it this way. The other thing is, that I use two months next to each other, like now I have January 2009 and February 2009 next to each other. In this way I can see my appointments for the next month too.




Duck Recipe Laminated My favourite recipe is the Duck with Orange Sauce, and I have the yummiest recipe for that. I made my own version of the recipe (I've added it below), and I printed it out. However, as this was my favourite recipe, I used this recipe a lot -). I scanned in what became of the original recipe: stains on it, splashes, etc., so that it was partly unreadable at the end, not mentioning, that it wasn't exactly a pretty sight. So, I decided to print it out again, and laminate it. I also decided to go for a smaller version, it is easier to use it like this in the kitchen. So, this is the result! I'm really quite happy with it.

DIY Filofax - Calendar printed out from Outlook

I made a DYI Filofax for myself. The trick of the whole thing is to use a two-hole binder. the two-hole makes the difference between the DIY-Filofax and the Filofax that you can buy in the shops. with the two-holes you can make your own print-outs and not spend half of your time with punching the holes to your print-outs. the advantage of your own print-out is that you can print out your own agenda from Outlook. this size is actually A5, so it fits to my backpack. why its great to print it out from Outlook, because i have all my annual events and appointments in it. birthdays, etc. well, August is pretty much the least eventful month though -). then i usually fill out the rest with pencil.

DIY Filofax with self-made penholder and business card holder and front page

I attached a pen, business-card-holders, and a front page. the front page includes my name, and it is laminated.

Videos

This is how I organized my kitchen cupboard

Throwing out clothes is difficult

My travel checklist

My iPhone reminder

My kitchen

Recipes

Authentic Hungarian Goulash

The famous Hungarian gulash is originally a soup, but plenty of meats, potatoes and little noodles, so it definetly can be eaten as a main course. Therefore, the whole world is making a mistake, as they think that Goulash is a kind of stew with lots of paprika. It’s a very yummy soup.

Ingredients:

with American measurements:

12 oz beef
5 oz onion
0.5 oz paprika powder
28 oz potatoe
5 oz pepper
2 oz tomatoe
salt, caraway seed, garlic
optional: little noodles

With european measurements:

360 gr beef
150 gr onion
15 gr paprika-powder
800 gr potatoe
140 gr pepper
60 gr tomatoe
salt, caraway seed, garlic
optional: little noodles

Preparation:

Cut the beef into little chunks (you can of course also buy it as pieces at the supermarket)
Cut the onion into the usual small pieces, and simmer it in the pan on oil.
After the onion is ready, we put the beef into the pan, plus all the paprika-powder, and stir the paprika-powder together with the meet.
Put the garlic and the caraway-seed on the beef, and stir it altogether.
After this is done, we put the water on the beef. The soup-pan can be totally full.
From here on you need to count about 3 hrs of cooking. Sound a lot of time, but it’s well worth it! The yummy taste comes from the long-cooked-beef.
Cut the pepper and the tomatoe into small chunks, and put it in in the last half an hour, or hour.
Cut the potato into small pieces, and put it into the soup at the last twenty minutes.

Bon Appetit!

Duck with caramelized orange sauce -- My way to make it, for 2 persons

It’s basically just roasting the duck, and making a yummy gravy/sauce separately.

1. Duck

In the oven
Put water under it, just a little bit
Put onion under it, the onion is cut
Put some marjoram around it
It's probably nice to put the gravy around it; I should try this.

2. Sauce

The ingredients:

	Ingredient	Quantity
1	Caramel	1 spoon sugar
2	Lemon	1 lemon to squeeze
3	Orange	1 orange to squeeze 1 orange to peel
4	Wine
5	Bouillon cube	1 piece
6	Butter	1 spoon
7	Gravy	from duck
8	Brandy	1.5 - 2 spoons

Juice (making the juice and the caramel can go simultaneously)

Start with lemon and orange to squeeze
- one lemon and two oranges
- one orange is peeled and squeezed, and one is just squeezed
Orange peeled, the peeled ones cooked. The peeling needs to be cooked with water.
Dilute the bouillon cube into it
Heat up the whole thing, because if the juice gets cold on the caramel, the caramel gets frozen. Nowadays I don't even do the caramel part, I only put the sugar at the end into it, and it is still nice and yummy, and I save the hassle with the caramel.

Caramel

To make the caramel, I don’t need to use anything else, the sugar melts itself in the pan, after a couple of seconds. So I don’t need to use the butter. Need to stir it after a while.
Pour heated juice on caramel, and stir it, until caramel gets diluted.

Pour other ingredients into sauce

Gravy from the duck
Butter, and let it melt
Wine and brandy: always last! If not last, then it evaporates.

At the side two more oranges peeled and sliced as garnish

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