The A-To-Z Of Getting Organized: C Is For Customization
Have you ever had some well-meaning (and probably highly anal-retentive) person give you organizing advice — suggesting that they've discovered the “right” way to do things, and assuring you that your...
View ArticleThe A-To-Z Of Getting Organized: D Is For Decluttering
A lot of people think that organizing is about the systems you set up — having everything color-coded and alphabetized and stored by season. That's certainly part of it, but arranging your places and...
View ArticleThe A-To-Z Of Getting Organized: F Is For Frequency
When determining where to store something in your home or office, what's the first question you ask? Is it about the thing's size or whether it comes with attachments or the temperature of the storage...
View ArticleThe A-To-Z Of Getting Organized: G Is For Grouping
You've heard the very old and very cliche saying “birds of a feather flock together?” Well, when it comes to space organizing, this idiom is only about half right. While it certainly makes sense to...
View ArticleThe A-To-Z Of Getting Organized: H Is For Homelessness
I realize that homelessness might seem like a strange issue to address in a discussion of getting organized — but I'm talking not talking about street people. I'm referring to homeless belongings —...
View ArticleThe A-To-Z Of Getting Organized: I Is For Imagination
It's great to get advice from the experts — but one of the quickest ways to fail at your organizing efforts is to adhere too rigidly to someone else's ideas of what “organized” looks like. What helps a...
View ArticleSimple Living On The Road — What Do You Really Need?
Living the full-timer lifestyle is incredibly freeing in terms of “stuff.” Not only do you seem to need less of it than you did in a house, but everything is built to be space-saving — it’s all...
View ArticleThe A-To-Z Of Getting Organized: L Is For Labeling
I don't have a lot of hard-and-fast rules as a Professional Organizer — I believe that each solution should be customized to suit the needs, preferences, and lifestyle of the individual. However, I do...
View ArticleThe A-To-Z Of Getting Organized: O Is For Order
Everyone knows that getting organized is about creating “order” in your life — but what the heck does that mean? Going back to my good pal Merriam-Webster, putting something in order is defined as...
View ArticleStorage Solutions For Small Spaces
When people first visit our 200 square-foot rolling home, they wonder where the heck we keep all of our stuff. We don't have junk sitting out in the open — our countertops are clear, no baskets of...
View ArticleThe First Step Toward Decluttering
Cleaning out your junk can be incredibly freeing — but where do you start? There’s so much to do!! Before we talk in detail about “de-cluttering,” let’s take a minute to look at the bigger picture....
View Article15-Minute Organizing Ideas — Lightening The Load
One of the biggest roadblocks my clients face in trying to get (and keep) their homes and offices decluttered is scheduling — finding the time to sort through the piles, make decisions about what to...
View Article15-Minute Organizing Ideas — With Kids
One of the biggest roadblocks my clients face in trying to get (and keep) their children organized is scheduling — finding the time to clean out toys they no longer play with, keep their school...
View ArticleIs It Collecting Or Hoarding?
An organizer friend of mine recently posted a quote by Nate Berkus (you may know him better as Oprah’s “style guy”) that started a lengthy conversation about hoarding. Since this seems to be such a...
View Article15-Minute Organizing Ideas — Tackling To-Do's
One of the biggest roadblocks my clients face in trying to get (and keep) on top of their to-do's scheduling — finding the time to for paying bills and writing letters, for making phone calls and...
View ArticleSimplicity: Radically Practicing What I Preach
When I hit the road as a full-time RVer, I thought it would be an interesting sociological experiment for a Professional Organizer — to see how simply I could live, how little “stuff” I could own and...
View ArticleThe Perfect Full-Timing Wardrobe
When friends come over to see my Airstream for the first, they always comment on the size of my closet — I have a storage area that is less than half what I had when I lived in a house. Folks are not...
View ArticleAs Published In Getting Organized Magazine —Clutter Control In 7 Easy Steps
Some folks treat decluttering like the organizational equivalent of having a root canal, behaving as if the sheer act of making decisions about their stuff is causing them physical pain — but clearing...
View ArticleThe A-To-Z Of Getting Organized: C Is For Customization
Have you ever had some well-meaning (and probably highly anal-retentive) person give you organizing advice — suggesting that they’ve discovered the “right” way to do things, and assuring you that your...
View ArticleThe A-To-Z Of Getting Organized: D Is For Decluttering
A lot of people think that organizing is about the systems you set up — having everything color-coded and alphabetized and stored by season. That’s certainly part of it, but arranging your places and...
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