The List: 12 Ways to Keep It Simple
Time Savers for Mom
First published 2012.01.31 | Canada | Health & Wellness
Keep It Simple, Stupid (aka KISS). The notion of keeping things simple when you’re juggling kids, extracurricular activities, meals and working is far from simple. It’s really just another item...read more

OttawApp
Our Fave Ottawa Apps
First published 2012.01.19 | Ottawa | Family Life
There’s a reason smart phones are called smart phones. They let us do things quicker, faster, and, well, smarter than ever before. We thought we’d share a few of our favourite Ottawa-centric...read more

Calm the Chaos
Les is More Professional Organizing Service
First published 2011.09.15 | Calgary | House & Home
How many baskets, boxes, hooks and nooks do you have to keep your clutter under control…and how much of your clutter still ends up on the floor? It’s time to get organized with a little help from...read more

25 Items to Help Get Them Out the Door
Home Organization Solutions
First published 2011.08.23 | Canada | The List
Back-to-school season should really be called back-to-the-morning-routine season. It’s time to embrace the chaos of waking, dressing, brushing, cleaning, eating, packing, shoelace tying, searching...read more

Spring into Cleaning
House Decluttering Tips
First published 2011.05.19 | Ottawa | Family Life
The term ‘spring cleaning’ hardly conjures up happy images of our favourite season. We prefer butterflies, fresh cut grass and buds on the trees. But as moms know, it’s not all glamour and the real...read more

The SavvyMom Guide to Family Travel
Family Travel Tips
First published 2011.03.01 | Canada | Gear
We’re Canadians, so we embrace winter. But right about now is when we need a (spring) break. Whether you’re fortunate enough to be going south to warmer weather or getting in the car to visit...read more

Tipped Off
Our New SavvyTips
First published 2011.01.25 | Canada | Family Life
We’ve got a special tip for you today. Actually, we’ve got tons of them. And we know you do too. For two years, we’ve been bringing you our Tip of the Week every Tuesday and for two years, readers...read more

Picture Perfect Resolutions
Photo Organization Services
First published 2011.01.11 | Canada | House & Home
What to do with your treasured family photos after the fact—that is the question. Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of abandoning your images to the hard drive, never...read more

Tri-umphant Solutions
Our Fave Savvy Solutions
First published 2010.11.09 | Canada | Gear
Practical solutions is our middle name at SavvyMom. So without further ado, herewith we share three of our recent ‘over the transom’ favourites, each of which brings its own savvy solution to the...read more

Curb Your Clutter
Organizing Tips
First published 2010.09.09 | Ottawa | House & Home
It’s time to declutter, and a young mother’s fancy turns to stomping wildly through the house, yanking up 90 percent of all the toys and random articles underfoot, tossing them into big black garbage...read more

Get Sharp
Permanent Marker Hacks
First published 2010.03.09 | Canada | House & Home
Maybe you haven’t been ‘carded’ lately, but as your family’s Chief Identification Officer, it’s your job to make sure everything (and we mean everything) has the right ID. You want to avoid mix-ups...read more

Photo Finish
Organizing, Showcasing and Storing Digital Photos
First published 2010.01.19 | Canada | House & Home
How do you picture your pictures? If your cherished family memories are sitting on a memory stick or your hard drive, they need to get out and be seen, shared and enjoyed, not stuck in the dark....read more

Mommy’s Little Helper
Happy Helperz
First published 2010.01.05 | Canada | House & Home
Every mom needs a helper and that helper can come in any shape or size. If the said helper is a happy one, even better. Leave it to a former teacher and newly minted mom entrepreneur, Heidi Girvan...read more

Meet Jack
Jackcards.com and Posterjack.ca
First published 2009.09.22 | Canada | Family Life
You think you’re organized and on-the-ball? You don’t know Jack. Jack’s our new bestie, Mr. Jack-of-all-trades, the guy who’s keeping us on track…especially now with two great new services we’ve...read more

Art Attack
Organizing Children’s Artwork
First published 2009.09.01 | Canada | House & Home
864 That’s the number of masterpieces per child you’ll end up with if you keep just three artistic creations a week, nine months of the year from nursery to grade six. That’s an awful lot of art....read more

Easy Access
Garage Organizing
First published 2009.05.21 | Toronto | House & Home
It’s such a wonderful time of year. The air is crisp, the sun is bright and you can’t wait to throw open that garage door, run to the back and retrieve your bikes and gardening tools. You leap over...read more

Parking Pretty
Garage Makeovers
First published 2009.05.21 | Vancouver | House & Home
We all love the change of seasons, especially the one from winter to spring…until we open the garage door. Invariably, the first spring jaunt into the garage to retrieve junior’s bicycle entails...read more

Playfully Clean
A Guide to Cleaning Toys
First published 2009.04.14 | Canada | House & Home
If you’re feeling a little urge for spring cleaning around now (after all, clutter is one thing we can control in these uncertain times), you might be thinking of tackling the kiddos’ much loved but...read more

Out of the Closet
Spring Fashion Tips
First published 2009.04.02 | Calgary | Gear
We know, you have nothing to wear. It’s a serious female condition that afflicts us all despite our overstuffed closets. And it can definitely be tough to find flattering, age appropriate outfits...read more

New Treasures
Donating Toys, Clothes and Accessories
First published 2009.04.02 | Vancouver | House & Home
The expression ‘one man’s junk is another man’s treasure’ must have come from a mom—and we’re pretty sure she was talking about children’s items. Kids don’t care if things are new or old because...read more