Get in the habit of cleaning out your purse or wallet once a week. Remove all trash and file important receipts. Cut down on the amount of stuff you carry by removing credit cards you rarely use and replacing large frequent shopper cards with smaller versions.
It’s that time of year! Kids are starting to get back into the groove of school and mom and dad are drowning in a sea of papers that these kiddos bring home everyday! Assignments, important dates, art work, library books, homework…and the list goes on and on and on and well you get the picture. [...]
Great clip from my faaaavvvorite organizer…Peter!
Jennifer speaking on the Jean Dean show about organizing your attic, your pet, your jewelry, your closet and more tricks of getting organized from a professional organizer!
Happy Valentine’s Day! How do you spend this holiday? Tonight I made a nice dinner for my husband and kids. We ate in the dinning room, lit candles and the flowers my husband bought me were the centerpiece. We started out the dinner going around the table and each of us told what we love [...]
■Expanded edition includes lots of new tips, including money-saving ideas, plus a new section on creating organized routines. ■Checklists, tips and goals that let readers organize quickly and see immediate results!Description: Find practical, straightforward advice and instruction presented in checklists that anyone can use and see immediate results in Organize Now! The revised edition will [...]
Corral clutter where it lands. Keep baskets or containers near messy spots, such as the front door, the kitchen counter top and the stair case. Then empty them once a week, put the items away and start over. This is a great job for the kids!
Purge Make four piles: toss, keep, donate and not sure. If you haven’t used something in 2 years toss or donate it. If you are not sure about something put it in a “holding tank” and if you don’t use or miss it within 4 months get rid of it. Use Height Look up and [...]
I am constantly talking about organizing Green with my clients and in my books. Part of this technique is using what you have FIRST before buying new. If this photo doesn’t say Green Organizing I don’t know what does! First, I love the use of the natural textures and the fact that everything is perfectly [...]
