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How to organize your cats

May 23, 2013

Now you can have a different cat for each day of the week. Organize them by making use of vertical space with stackable bins. Make sure the fattest cat is on the bottom. See another way to organize cats here.

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15 things to do NOW to prepare for summer

May 21, 2013

School is out in less than a month, which means vacations, summer camps and kids underfoot 24/7. Yikes! Here are some things you can do NOW to get ready for summer: 1. Sign up for summer camp, swim lessons and other summer activities. This is at the top of the list, because it has to [...]

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5 tips for keeping clutter out of your house

May 17, 2013

It’s hard to find the energy/time/interest to organize. So when that inspiration to organize finally hits and you are able to clean out that black hole in your home, you probably feel ecstatic! Yay! Time to post a brag picture to Pinterest! But how often have you kicked clutter to the curb only to find [...]

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The Lego rule I decided to break

May 9, 2013

In the last few weeks, I came to a momentous decision: I decided to allow my 7-year-old son to keep his Legos in our living room. Those of you who have heard me speak about organizing toys probably know how much I hate Legos (thousands of ugly, tiny pieces of plastic, each of which go [...]

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… and the 5 hardest places to organize in your home

April 29, 2013

On Friday, I listed the 5 easiest places to organize in your home. That list is designed to help people ease into organizing if organization doesn’t come naturally to them. Today’s list tackles the 5 hardest-to-organize places in your home. The point of this list is to steer you away from starting with these difficult [...]

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The 5 easiest spots to organize in your home

April 26, 2013

If organizing doesn’t come naturally for you, then it’s best to ease into getting your home organized by starting with an easy area. Save the tough, complicated spots until after you have successfully organized some of the simpler spots in your home. But where are these simpler spots? Here are the top 5 easiest-to-organize spots [...]

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How to organize your child’s closet for spring

April 16, 2013

April is a good month to take stock of your children’s closet and figure out which items they have outgrown, which items can go into storage for next winter, which items can be handed down to a younger child and which items they are lacking for summer. But, boy, that can be a big job! [...]

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What is it like to work with a professional organizer?

April 1, 2013

Many people have asked me what my organizing process is, and I realized that unless you have had me come to your home for an assessment, you probably don’t know how this whole organizing thing works. So let me break it down for you: 1. Before we start any actual organizing, we schedule an organizing [...]

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Here’s why you need a donation station in your home

March 27, 2013

Does your house feel out of control? Are you sick of the clutter, the piles of papers, and the tornado of toys and art supplies on the floor? The trick to keeping your house clutter-free is to get rid of the stuff you are not using. The less stuff you have in your house, the [...]

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How to get organized when you are depressed

March 19, 2013

Never before in human history have people owned as much stuff, let alone had access to as much stuff as they do now. It’s hard enough for a healthy person to deal with, but if you are struggling with clinical depression, the daily work of “stuff management” can become absolutely overwhelming. How clutter contributes to [...]

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