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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I get asked how to deal with household paper piles quite frequently. Every home seems to have a paper pile somewhere. (Every week, I go through my own paper piles that accumulate on the kitchen counter!)The solution starts by categorizing the type of paper that comes into your house, then dealing with each category in [...]
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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 to [...]
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I don’t usually do product reviews. I’m not a big believer that you need more “stuff” to organize all the stuff you already have. But just the other day, I came across E-mealz.com (an online meal-planning service) and the DIY Go Mom! Planner (a comprehensive planner you print out from PDF files). These two products [...]
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Are you wondering if there is a way to display Christmas cards other than in a stack on the dining room table? Here are a few ideas: 1. If you have a metal fireplace exterior, take tiny magnets and line the cards up in a row all around the fireplace, putting the magnets inside the [...]
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Sooner or later in the decluttering process, you come across an item that you do not love nor use anymore, yet can’t bring yourself to discard. There are several reasons for this. Here are seven of the most common reasons: 1. Perfectionism: We believe we cannot make the perfect decision about this item, (e.g. What [...]
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