Spring 2016 Newsletter Side Notes: *** Clearing the Clutter, and Closet and Wardrobe Organizing are the two classes that I have left in my spring line up. If you’d like to attend a class please contact the class location directly. Hope to see you in class. *** Are you curious about the Minimalist Movement? Join […]
My 9 year old niece slept over a few weeks ago, and several times throughout the weekend, she asked the definition to words my husband and I used which she didn’t know the meaning. It made me think of the definition of the word ORGANIZE. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word organize as “to arrange […]
Establish a lost and found box for small items that you come across while organizing and cleaning up. This way you’ll have a home for found parts to a game, pieces to a toy, buttons, screws, pens, lose change, etc. Once a month empty out the lost and found box and put items where they […]
The popular book by Marie Kondo, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tiding Up” has been a topic of many discussions between my Professional Organizer colleagues and myself. I found that I agree with many of Marie Kondo’s points, as long as you substitute the word organizing in place of the word tidying. Here is a list […]
Organizing is action and clutter is unfinished action. To prompt yourself to take action and attack clutter, use bright colored sticky notes to tag the clutter with the action that is needed to make it go away. Then give yourself time to follow through with the action step that’s written on the sticky note.
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