4M Margarita’s Manic Monday Minutes
My daughter has very long hair.
This week on 4M (Margarita’s Manic Monday Minutes) we are organizing Hair Accessories. Well, its very long hair compared to my hair. I don’t think I have ever had hair that got longer than just past my shoulders. Touching the base of my shoulder blades? Never going to happen. With three women in the house there is a lot of hair and plenty of hair accessories.
My eldest has THE CUTEST pixie cut that suits her very much. She only had long hair because she needed something to anchor her huge Irish Dance wig. As soon as she stopped competing, she cut her hair almost immediately.
My second daughter, however had much longer hair. She has the kind of hair that I only got after having children (yeah, pregnancy hormones). Its fairly thick and long. It is something that she wields easily. Here, there, everywhere. It sits proudly on top of her head or pin-straight by the side of her lovely face. It also means that she is pretty handy with it. It gets braided, crimped, twisted, curled and pleated. It is amazing what she can do with her hair. The thing is, there seems to be many items that must accompany that hair: elastics, clips, bows, clamps…
To say the least there are many of these items hanging around the house…just sitting on a counter… in a drawers… on the floor (tsk, tsk). They are enough to drive my husband crazy. At times, I am grateful they are around as I usually need something to pull my own hair back with. DD actually has an entire drawer dedicated to these things. The good thing is I gave her a tiny task a few weeks back and you can see the before and after of her 4M task.
Organizing Hair Accessories
She did a fine job of getting rid of many items that she no longer uses. That is key to keeping things organized with your kids: the more buy-in from them to let go of items, the easier it is for you to let go of them. As a mom, I do get caught up in the value of things. “But you begged me to spend $18 for that Lululemon hairband” and as I looked through the bag I realized it was not one but a few of those. I am fully aware that some other girl will love them so I threw them in the wash and will now donated them. They will find a home with another little girl with long hair.
There are lessons to be learned in this video on organizing hair accessories:
- my daughter is a visual learner so she needs to be able to see things to use them
- keep the essentials, no need to keep items that you don’t use
- re-use containers that you already have to organize them
- clean the drawer before you put everything back
- keep like items together
- open up the space for other items that may have been placed on the countertop
- set a time limit to accomplish this task 10 – 15 minutes at the most
- let your kids own the mess the make and make them clean it up
We have been on a quest to organize my teen daughter. You can see how we organized her hair appliances, decorated her room and purged her closet and found 5 tools to organize her closet. so if we just keep humming along, we should be able to tackle some other easy projects in 20 minutes or less. This is what Margarita’s Manic Monday Minutes are all about.
Margarita Ibbott is a travel and lifestyle blogger. She blogs about travel in Canada, the United States and Europe giving practical advice through restaurant, hotel and attraction reviews. She writes for DownshiftingPRO.com and other online media outlets.
Thanks for the tips,the bathroom counter is always blocked
I need to organize myself!Thanks
This is so awesome – trust me.. I really need this one, hahaha! Too many to hold up!
Ah, I have such a flat hair. To me, it is literally impossible to have curls like that. Lovely!
This is perfect for my daughter and myself. We have a million hair accessories. We have bought so many curling irons and blow dryers I can’t even believe it sometimes.
I love it when things are organized. For my hair, I only use either a comb or a brush and a hair dryer. And I put them all in a basket near my bathroom sink.
I’ve always worn my hair long when I was a kid because it made me feel so girlie, but now that I’m a grown up I like it short because it helps me not be late for work. Lol. I’ve invested in a good hair dryer and hair iron so drying and fixing my hair takes just about 10 minutes max. Everything’s calculated in the morning and I still come to work on time. I also don’t have to keep ponytails and clips, lol. But I did hoard a lot of them when I was kid and would always organize them by colors and sizes.
I definitely need to organize my hair stuff. I sometimes don’t even know what I have!
I don’t blame her a bit for learning all the tricks. If I had long gorgeous hair, I would too. 🙂 Awesome that you got her to get rid of what she doesn’t really use or need.
I have naturally curly hair. I used to spend my younger years blow drying to make it straight. Now I leave it curly most of the time.
I am the epitome of bad style. I have shoulder-length hair and wear it in a high ponytail every single day of my life. I have a brush, some elastic hair ties and a single curling iron for the once-a-year event where I feel I need to put some curl in my ponytail.
We have three people in our house with long hair. We have so many hair elastics and clips it is crazy. I will have to go threw and get rid of all the ones we no longer use.
I need some organization in my bathroom right now too. I have hair clips all over the place!
I have taken some inspiration from this and bought new organizers from target for the girls bathroom. Nice job H!
I have such a hard time organizing my own hair stuff! Thank you so much for sharing some ideas for me!
My daughter has tons of hair assecories, I definitely need to sort her room out soon. They are everywhere and we lose so many because of this.
Sometimes I think posts like these are made for me! Really need to start organizing!
My daughter always had her accessories in a mess when she was a teen. This is going to help a lot of parents out!
Great video showing us how you’ve organized! Looks great and easy now – right? I love neatness and new ideas – systems and keeping them running is fabulous – congrats on a great job teaching and making it work
Thank you for your kind words.
Great tips!! My teen daughter has long hair and her accessories are everywhere and it drives me crazy.
Um I’m not even going to talk about what my bathroom and vanity cabinets look like… I’m a mess. LOL!
There are some great tips here, ones that my own daughter would benefit from. We desperately need a purge so maybe this would be some motivation for her!
Ugh underneath the bathroom cabinet is all of my stuff. Hair related (mainly products). I need to organize it, stat.
My mom is also like that who gets caught up in the value of things. A famous example at home is our clothes. We buy clothes and then let go of the old ones we don’t wear anymore. So whenever she sees us disposing or donating the clothes, she will have a hard time.
I need to organize all of my hair products. I am the mom of two girls, we have a lot of it.
That was a great idea looks organized accessories for all teens girls. I’ll need this after 5 years lol. This is great.
Great tips. My daughter had very long hair that I loved to accessorize. Unfortunately she mostly preferred to throw in a hair band before running out the door. We just went and got it trimmed this past weekend. I’m alright with her fashioning a hair band if her hair is only shoulder length now.
Hair tie city here they get everywhere too. My girls are so sloppy with their things! I need to organize all. The. Time.
Ahhhhhh I really need to get better organized!! With all the products I’ve been reviewing my bathroom is a disaster
Thankfully my daughter is very organized, but even still we go through her closet and drawers on a regular basis.
We have so many hair ties and bows and whatevers that my daughter has to regularly clean out the draw that hold them.
I need to organize myself! I’m so much more messy than a teenage girl.
I have very curly hair that I straighten with keratin treatments. All I need is a hairbrush and flat iron these days 🙂