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Today it’s another $25 Gift Card Giveaway courtesy of the good folks at the Arm & Hammer Switch & Save Challenge.  But before I get to the giveaway, I wanted to share a few of my favorite laundry organization tips.

1. A laundry sorter is awesome.  I have a three divider rolling laundry sorter that fits under my counter in my laundry room.  I picked it up at an outlet store for a super deal over 10 years ago and it is still going strong.  It keeps my laundry room tidy, and makes it easy for me to see when I have a full load.  My rolling basket works great, but if you are remodeling, my mom has a built in cabinet with 4 large drawers to hold her loads of laundry- one for whites, mediums and darks and one for delicates.

2.  Keep your laundry supplies neat and stylish in a basket.  I picked up an inexpensive basket for holding my box of dryer sheets, laundry detergent, and stain fighting products.  I also have a cute little dish for my bar of laundry soap.  The basket looks so much better than having the laundry supplies spread out all over the laundry room.

3.  I love my fabric sock basket!  I made my laundry sock basket last winter and it is the perfect solution for those inevitable stranded socks.

4.  I also love my powdered laundry detergent container made from an old ammo box last winter.

Having my laundry room neat, organized and cheerful makes doing the big job of laundry so much easier.  And now for the $25 Visa Gift Card Giveaway.  To enter leave a comment answering:

On a scale of one to ten how organized is your laundry?  1 for it’s total mess and 10 if you have a laundry room that could be in a Better Homes and Gardens magazine shoot.

Or if you have any favorite laundry organization tips shout them out instead.

The Rules:

• Contest closes on Thursday, September 15th, 2011 10:00 MDT

• Only one comment per person please.

• Random winner will be announced on Friday, September 16th

Be sure to head over to the Arm and Hammer Switch and Save website and enter for a chance to win $25,000!

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This is a sponsored post for Church & Dwight Co., Inc, the maker of ARM & HAMMER branded products, who is paying me to try different products. Save $1.00 on ARM & HAMMER Essentials Fabric Softener Sheets.  And then head over to The Switch & Save Challenge to keep up with all of the bloggers and enter to win $25,000.

I will announce the giveaway winner in a minute, but first I wanted to share a few thoughts on this Monday morning….

I sent my oldest off this morning to overnight camp with his school grade.  He was so excited or nervous that he hardly stopped to hug me goodbye.

It made me feel a little sad and wistful as he ran off with his friends… knowing that he’s growing so fast and I can’t stop time.

Yesterday was the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 and I’m sure I was in good company in looking back over the past decade and reflecting.  My little guy had just turned one on that day ten years ago.  He was playing on the family room floor while I ironed my husband’s work clothes that morning.  The Today Show was on, but I wasn’t paying it any attention until they cut away to the report of the plane flying into the first tower.  I remember thinking, how could a plane accidentally hit a building?  Then the second plane hit, and with it came the dread knowledge that it was no accident.

I remember feeling that the world had somehow changed.  That it wasn’t as safe as it had been.  I remember wondering what kind of world I would be raising my family in.  Within days of 9/11, I found out to my great shock, that I was pregnant again. (I didn’t know for a few months that it was twins.)  I felt apprehension and worry at what the future would bring.

But somehow life does go on.  Children grow.  There are soccer games and ballet recitals.  There are camping trips and building snowmen in the wintry front yard and quiet summer mornings on a porch swing.

Life has a way of reasserting itself.  There are so many lovely moments and yes, there are tragic days too.  But either way life goes on.

As my son ran off this morning, I thought of how I will hug him when he gets home.  How I hope he will snuggle up with me on the sofa and tells me of his adventures at camp.

If we didn’t know it before, we learned on that day ten years ago, that life is fragile and finite.  And because of that knowledge, I hope I have lived, and will continue to live deliberately each day.

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And now for a winner of the $50 Tiny Prints Gift Certificate Giveaway.

Congratulations to Vicki:

I can’t think of a better gift for a grandmother!

I’ll be sending out your gift certificate code later today!