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Organizing Your Teen Daughter for School
It's almost time for school to start again, and time for one of my most unfavorite activities...school shopping with my teenage daughter.Don't get me wrong, I love my daughter, and we have a lot of fun hanging out together.Read more…Cleaning Out Your Clothes Closets
Keeping your wardrobe up to date is easy if you start by sorting through all your unwanted clothing and donate it to charities.I'm always looking for people to give my daughter's outgrown clothes to. Every 2 months or so my daughter and I sort through her clothes and make one pile for charities, and another pile for the consignment store.Read more…The Family Organizer
I'm forever looking for ways to get better organized. It's even more of a challenge when you have a family to keep track of. The schedules, shopping lists, and tomorrow's to-do's are always being lost or shuffled from one place to another.Read more…Homework Organizer
Do you ever get tired of picking up your children's homework from all over the house?Even when my daughter's schoolwork has made it to her room, it usually ends up in the corner, under her bed, in her bed, in her closet--wherever she can find a place to stash it. One time I let it go for so long that when we finally went through it we had literally filled a kitchen garbage bag full of discarded school papers.Read more…The Housekeeper’s Secret Weapon
You can eliminate housework altogether and still have the cleanest house in the neighborhood.As anyone who manages a household can tell you, it’s often a challenge to face the mundane obligations of keeping a home in order and it’s easy to fall behind in your responsibilities. Once you find yourself falling behind, it’s a terribly short step between that point and things getting entirely out of hand, often resulting in an overwhelming disastrous aftermath.Read more…Organizing Paper Clutter - What To Do With Mail Order Catalogues
There is no shortage of paper clutter in your home. For one, those mail order catalogues are still coming to your postal mailbox. And the truth is that you do like to receive and browse them.Read more…Organize Your Office
Can you see the surface of your desk? Are important papers and files buried amongst other important papers & files, in ever growing stacks spread around your office? Do you often lose your pen amidst the papers?Read more…Get Organized at Home
Are your closets stuffed full of clothes you haven't worn in years? Does your basement resemble a junkyard? Can your car barely fit in the garage due to an excess of kid's toys, yard tools and stuff you thought you just might need someday?Read more…Organizing for Dollars
With the success of EBay and the increasing cost of running a household, everyone should see dollar signs when they look at things in their home! Unorganized homes cost money! When was the last time you REALLY got your home cleaned out and organized?Read more…Our Lives are Getting Busier and Busier
No matter how busy our lives get, the day-to-day errands do not decrease, in fact they increase. It is harder to say I will leave that until tomorrow or the next day, because then the important errands in our lives never get done.With our careers taking importance in our lives, the role of the family is taking a back seat.Read more…Choosing the Right Planner For Organizing Your Life
Choosing a planner for organizing your life can be a daunting task. Not only are there hundreds of types and styles to choose from, choosing a planner that will work for you is very dependent on your organizing style as well as on your personality and information processing style.Are you a creative type?Read more…Dispelling 8 Misconceptions of Organization
Some people were born organized and then there are those of us who struggle with organizing every year at this time. It seems that it’s always at the end of the year when that little annoying bug begins nudging you to clear things up and start the new year organized.Well, I’ve read just about everybody’s directions, books, and helpful hints about getting organized (in fact, I’m thinking of writing one myself), and I’ve got to tell you there are some misconceptions being fostered by every organizational guru.Read more…Home Organization Tips for Procrastinators
Even procrastinators can accomplish home organization tasks using a few simple home organization tips and tricks. If you tend to procrastinate when it comes to home organizing, you could be procrastinating for many reasons such as:Lack of time - You don't feel you have a day or a week to devote to organizing anything right now so you put off home organization---just until you have time to do it right.Boredom - Home organizing seems like a boring way to spend your time.Read more…De-cluttering and Organizing Your Home with 7 Simple Secrets!
1. Out with the old, in with the new!To minimize what goes into your house in the first place, remember this simple rule: If you bring in a new item then one has got to go! For example when I buy new clothes I look at what I have before I go shopping.Read more…Principles - Efficiency in Organizing Your life
Before you do or act you think ... And if you think that you do not think before you act, you have already thought (because the specific issue resembles a similar situation that is good enough to act in the same way).We all use principles.Read more…The Landing Zone: Ready for Takeoff?
One of the barriers to a clutter-free home is the landing zone. Never heard of the landing zone? It's literally the place where you land when you come in the door.Read more…Inexpensive Ways to Organize Young Children
If your children are anything like the ones I know, they're less than gentle on their belongings. It's not an unwise decision to be thrifty in setting up organization systems for them. Here are some inexpensive tips I've found helpful--Book StorageGet milk crate type bins and stack two by your child's bed.Read more…Taming the Closet Demon
Consider this scenario - you open the door to your closet: - and you’re buried under an avalanche of shoes, boxes, bags and sweaters - you can’t squeeze in one more thing - only to realize you have nothing to wear because you can no longer see your clothes - the floor is no longer visible - you can’t even open the doorSound all too familiar. Don’t despair; even the smallest closet can be made to look like a designer closet if you follow a few simple (o.k.Read more…Tips for Dealing With Paper Clutter
Are you drowning in a sea of paper? Are you deluged by a torrent of catalogs? In the never ending battle against paper clutter, there are three must-have tools you'll need to win the war.Read more…Barriers to Organization
A casual observer will notice the prevalence of clutter-related shows on television. It's amazing how many people living in waste-deep piles of papers and collectibles are so desperate, they open their homes to the world via some TV show in hopes of being rescued from their own bad habits. And you--smugly watching--think, 'I'm not that bad.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Organizing category
- 10 Tips to Help Ease Holiday Stress - By: Angelique Ellerman
Don't let another holiday season wear you down and frazzle your nerves. Following are some ideas that can help make Christmas, Thanksgiving and other holidays more enjoyable and less stressful. - From Congestion & Clutter to Prosperity & Wellness - By: Sheevaun Moran
By filling our every space with stuff, we allow congestion. Any lack of movement or flow permits stagnant old energy to permeate every aspect of our lives. Whether we are working harder for prosperity, improved relationships, or good health congestion prohibits the good from easily entering our lives. - Why Self-Knowledge is Important - By: Ashutosh Ghildiyal
On the necessity of Self-knowledge and the need to be self-aware. - J. Krishnamurti and The Art of Listening - By: Ashutosh Ghildiyal
Short article on the art of listening. - Organizing Important Records and Organizing Your Life - a 15-Minute Guide - By: Claudette Paäge
There is a little-known resolution unknown to most people. A simple and painless commitment that brings those who resolve to make it an organized life, less daily worry and complete peace of mind. More specifically, I am talking about eliminating your worry and concerns about money, your life and your health by organizing all your important records and documents. - Freedom and Power of Accountability - By: Jay Fiset
Why an article on accountability? While hardly a new theme, the notion is widely maligned, misunderstood, or missed completely. - How to Throw a Dinner Club Party - By: Maraya Mullen
Your social club has, for the first time, assigned you to organize the next installment of your group’s quarterly dinner club party. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to throw one. - 6 Steps to Survive ADHD Overwhelm - Learn to Plan Your Day - By: Sarah Jane Keyser
Like many people today, do you find life overwhelming? Today's hectic world puts tremendous pressure to perform on everyone, but if you have ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) the pressure is magnified several times over. Learn these six steps to beat overwhelm. - Ten Minutes That Will Change Your Life - By: Dr. Earl R. Smith II
Pretty catchy title, don’t you think? Don’t you ‘instant gratification’ types get too carried away. I am going to tell you about a ten minute exercise that will change your life. - Improve One Area of Disorganization this Month! - By: Sherry Borsheim
The first full week of October is Get Organized Week in the U.S. This week, which celebrates the benefits of organization, was established in 1992 by the National Association of Professional Organizers.