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Tasks to maintain order and keep chaos at bay
Staying on top of our daily tasks and organizing our possessions can feel like a part-time job – a job for which our compensation is personal satisfaction, improved productivity and enjoyment. Because the demands of each day don’t allow us much time to organize our personal “stuff”, keeping a daily routine is important to help…
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Organize to Sell Your Home
Are you thinking about selling your home in the next few years? There are so many tasks to accomplish to prepare your home (and yourself) for that fateful day. It’s never too soon to plan. Begin with a dedicated notebook to list your assignments. Let’s break it down by time frame. Here are the traditional…
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Organize Playrooms and Play Spaces
Play spaces are an integral part of your child’s growing experience. As they develop, so does their play space or playroom. Most likely, their first play space began in the family room/ living room where they were easily supervised. We can organize playrooms and play spaces to suit their needs. Consider the location of your…
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How to de-clutter sentimental items
Sentimental items are difficult to de-clutter If an item stirs up feelings, the item is sentimental. We have the item(s) because we want to keep the “thing” that triggers that memory in our lives. For some people, a sentimental item could be a book, a photo, or a nostalgic object. It’s difficult to de-clutter sentimental…
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Typical places where you may forget to de-clutter
There are SO MANY PLACES where people typically forget to de-clutter. De-Clutter the “STASH” First, when you’re expecting company, where do you stash your stuff? Those are the most likely places where people forget to de-clutter. Clutter is simply stuff that’s placed in the wrong space, or forgotten items that accumulated over time. When it’s…
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CHAOS! How my disorganized basement gave me hives
Do you shudder when you enter a room, open a cabinet door or see your disorganized basement because you face “stuff” that you’ve postponed tackling? Have you procrastinated a project that you really want to accomplish? Looking back at her process of dealing with an accumulation of “stuff” in her basement, client, Lynn Amos…
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How to Organize Your Spices
I’ve learned that the process you use to organize the smallest things in your life, like your spices, is a metaphor for how you organize YOUR LIFE. American poet Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) famously said, “If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves.” Let’s look at the…
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Is “Organizing” Therapeutic for You?
The Huffington Post published an article the other day about why cleaning and organizing is therapeutic in stressful times. Although there is some controversy about equating organizing with cleaning, the topic spurs some thought. For some individuals, not cleaning nor organizing is a therapeutic task. For some, the task of organizing is additional stress!! Regarding…
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What’s Your Style? Setting Up Organizing Systems.
“I put it somewhere.” But, can you find it? Finding It Are you setting up organizing systems for piles of papers, collections, or supplies? Some may suggest that cookie cutter systems suffice, but not everyone thinks the same. To be successful at finding “it” in the future depends on several factors. There’s a better…
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Small Accomplishments, Great Strides
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together” – Vincent Van Gogh A master artist knows that a great piece is accomplished in small steps. We’re all artists of our spaces. We choose our surroundings. We schedule the time to manage our stuff. Sometimes, “Life” takes over…