I feel waaaay more organized with kids- I have to be or things get out of control and I get crazy! I like having a place for everything and everything in it's place. It makes the household run smoother and enables everyone to help out. I still have lots to do in terms of organizing but it feels great to be the kind of person that *finally* has some order!

I feel less organized since having my two little ones (3 and 16 mths). It's a monster I'm still trying to tame. I know I'm my own worst critic and things probably aren't as bad as I think they are, but still there's a LOT of room for improvement.

I think my kid's stuff is organized... my things? Not so much. :)
Oh, and that photo made me cringe - I see everything through toddler-colored glasses these days, and all those glass storage jars (which I love, BTW) right at my kid's grabbing level gave me chills. It's very pretty though. :)

Um...no. MUCH less organized. I guess I'm not a poster parent for organization. I hope I'm not alone.

Everything does have its place, but how often does it make it there... about 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time it ends up in a bin of misc stuff to put away when I have the time. Every other week I actually empty that bin and put things back where they should be... and the cycle starts all over again!

girlwithgreencard- I thought the SAME thing when I saw that picture. Someday, when the kids are bigger I would LOVE that pantry... but now, with a 12 month old and 3 year old, that picture makes me nervous!

i am probably obsessively organized! i think you HAVE to be with kids or everything will fall apart:)

I haven't labeled my spice jars yet or color coded my sock drawers, but that may be a little bit too organized...if you know what I mean.

djungst- you are not alone. that's for sure. i'm definitely lacking in the organization department now that i have an 18-month-old. i'm working on it though!

waaaay less organized. But he's not even 3 months old, yet, so hopefully that will rectify itself.

I feel like I'm at the same level of organization I was at before having my son. I'm the type of person who may not have everything in its own place but I still know where it is, I always have been. Our son's things have kind of meshed in with our things and so the new additions weren't so hard. I'm guessing, however, when my son and other child (one on the way) gets a little bit older and they become more and more their own persons I will really have to organize things in a way more accessible to them.

I'm at about the same level of organization. I have some areas that are kept organized and tidy most of the time (playroom, nursery, office, bathrooms, etc) and other areas that tend toward disorder. I'm much more organized now than I was ten years ago, though, so I suspect my household organization will continue to increase over time.

Love the open pantry, by the way. I showed it to my husband and he said he'd love to consider something like this for our kitchen, as long as we had at least one closed pantry area :)

I can agree with this post, our house is organized within an inch of it's life since we had kids. What's gone the other way is remembering critical one-off tasks. I'm hating that doomed I-know-I'm-forgetting-something feeling.

It's such a puzzling thing to organize for me, I actually studied a snapshot of Heidi Klum's to-do notebook in last month's Instyle for tips!

This month, we're printing our to-do spreadsheet every Sunday to pow wow over after bedtime. I hope this idea sticks. Because I would rather have a jumble of stuff under my sink, in the end, than space mailing a check ever again...ugh, ugh, ugh! Know what I mean?

Much, much more organized--I have to be! I have an inquisitive toddler now. Way back when I lived alone, I just left everything where I used it. I tidied if people were coming over. When I moved in with my future husband, I started to tidy more often, as it wasn't fair for him to have to live in my mess. But now that we have a child, especially one who somehow psychically knows when something possibly dangerous is around and unattended, we have to tidy everything. And if we're going to tidy, we might as well have designated places for things.

And I totally agree about the photo--it's pretty, but I just see my daughter running off with a glass bottle when I look at it.

Definitely more organized, but not in a way that looks good aesthically. Does that make sense? We're better at putting things away and everything has a place now. Before kids I kept the house tidy, but didn't focus on where things should go.

Definitely less organized since having kids. I feel like every corner of the house is filled with stuff, mostly the kids' stuff.

I am more organized with my child's things...but much less with my stuff.

Does being organized also have something to do with clean and tidy all the time? Not me.

I feel like I got our stuff more organized, although still needs some work, and when the little man's stuff is all put away it is organized, it is just getting it put away. Now that I am a mom though the "nesting" has never stopped, I constantly want to clean out drawers and closets.

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After the first few months I've become so much more organized (especially more since daughter has started sleeping through the night and not nursing). I never used to pack up for the next day and put clothes aside but now I have to as a matter of survival cause we'd always forget something. Have to make sure there are no choking hazards within reach. Don't necessarily think being organized means everything is clean and tidy more that you can easily find what you are looking for or what you need to do doesn't take a longer than expected because things are not all in order.