It’s now garage sale season. I have mixed feelings about this because while they can be great places to find fixer-upper items for DIY projects, they can also be a source of cheap junk for your home. How often have you bought something at a garage sale because it was cute or worth a lot of money or ”useful” or simply [...]
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In my line of work, one of the most common reasons I see houses get so disorganized is because the owners have a great system for getting stuff into the house (shopping, gifts, freebies) and no system for getting stuff out of the house. If you keep adding to the contents of your home without ever removing [...]
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Victorian party guests unhappy with the gifts they received at a Passing Party. Or maybe they just ate some bad hot dogs. My mother recently sent me an old newspaper clipping that dated back to the late-19th, early-20th century about how to get rid of items in your house that you don’t like (because there [...]
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You know how after Thanksgiving, you end up with a bunch of that disposable Tupperware (e.g. Gladware and the like) filled with leftovers? And then you eat up all the leftovers, leaving you stuck with 12 new pieces of disposable/reusable storage containers? Instead of shoving them all into the back of a cupboard, why not [...]
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I just watched this excellent video online called Reuse It, made here locally by Bring Recycling, an Oregon-based waste reduction organization and used building materials retailer. You can watch it here. What does this have to do with organization or budget home design? Well, when we organize, the first step we take is to sort through all of our [...]
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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 containers. [...]
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Do you have outdated electronics in your home that you are reluctant to part with? Maybe you don’t want to toss them because even though they are old, they are still functional. Or maybe you don’t want to throw them away because you have heard that many old electronics have mercury in them. Whatever your [...]
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In the past year or so, a handful of new resale shops have opened up along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd in NE Portland. This is great, because now you North and NE Portland readers have even more places to sell or donate your unwanted clutter, and you DIYers have more places to shop for funky [...]
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I don’t intend this post to be a complete list of all the steps you should take to hold the perfect garage sale. Instead, consider this a list of tips that might make your sale go from good to great. Most of these tips come from other professional organizers who have experience helping their clients get top [...]
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Every so often, I like to write about what to do with your unwanted clutter, especially the hard-to-recycle stuff. My husband, who works at a Fix Auto Body Shop, is the one who tipped me off to this unique Portland-Metro area program for disposing old car seats. Did you know you need to dispose of any car seat [...]
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