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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Every home I have been in as a professional organizer has a pile of papers on the kitchen counter. Some may also have piles on the dining room table or hallway table, but they all have the pile on the kitchen counter. Even in my own home, this is the first place that piles start [...]
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Some people (I’m talking to you, Martha Stewart!) go overboard when it comes to organizing. That is, they waste time organizing things that don’t have to be perfectly compartamentalized, sorted and arranged. Here are five organizing tasks you can ignore: 1. Putting all of the non-perishable food in the pantry into their own separate glass [...]
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School is out today in Portland, Oregon. That means kids all over the city are cleaning out their desks and bringing home stacks of papers. It’s enough to overwhelm even the most organized parent! So what can you do? Here’s the how-to for dealing with all of those school papers as well as some options [...]
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You want to know the trick to keeping your house organized on a day-to-day basis? It comes down to two actions you must take: First, make sure every item — and I mean every item — in your house has a home. Make sure everyone in the family knows where these “homes” are. Label them [...]
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Question: I would love to get organized, but when I look at the piles of stuff in my house (and there’s piles in every room), I don’t have the slightest idea where to begin. I’m so completely overwhelmed! So I end up not even trying to get organized. Can you offer me some advice so [...]
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Yes, people, THAT is how you file! Divide your files into six categories (eg. finances, health, home, personal, education, kids), assign each category a color and keep those colors lumped together in the drawer so you can instantly find what you are looking for. You will feel so proud of yourself every time you open [...]
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Do you leave papers out on your counter as reminders of things you need to do? Are there various items laying around, because you need them to remind you of some task that has to get done? For some people, it’s the pile of baby clothes on the floor of the closet that shouldn’t get [...]
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It’s the end of the school year, and I bet somewhere in your home there is a corner overflowing with your children’s schoolwork and artwork. Now is the perfect time to deal with it. But how? Once you have sorted through it to decide what you want to keep, here are some great solutions for [...]
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Do you have a home office, craft room or other work-related room that you rarely use? Do you find yourself taking things from those rooms — bills, laptop computer, sewing, art supplies — and setting them up at the dining room table or in front of the TV? It might be maddening to other members of your family, who [...]
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