Blog Entries tagged 'tips'

7-Two Minute Organizing Tips for Home and Office

linda@organizationdirect.com — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:00:00 +0100

7 - Two Minute Organizing Tips for Your Home and Office

Do you feel as if you'll never get caught up with paperwork? Have too much stuff laying around that is driving you nuts? Clutter, clutter, everywhere?

I love, love this philosophy...If it can be done in two minutes of less, do it now! Working with this mindset will allow you to keep clutter under control and eliminate pile management.

So, here are 7 tips that will help keep you orga [...]

Automate Your Day - Clearing Your Mental Clutter

gail@afreshstartorganizing.net — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:00:00 +0100

How would you like to clear your mind from all the little distractions that get in your way? These everyday distractions can wreak havoc on your productivity. Wouldn't you love to have a machine that automatically made your life easier? Well, I have a little secret for you. You already own it! It is that thing in your head that weighs about 3 pounds. Your brain!
Wikipedia defines automatic as "Capable of operating without external control or intervention. Done out of habit or withou [...]

Home Organizing Tip-of-the-Month for May

owner@thecluttercoach.com — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:00:00 +0100

It’s spring-cleaning time.

Choose an area to de-clutter, and gather a large garbage and/or recycle container, a box or boxes for donations/garage sale/consignment, and a box for items that go elsewhere -- i.e., don’t belong in the area you are de-cluttering. Sort items into these containers, and then deliver the “goes elsewhere” items to their proper places.

The above organizing tip is taken from my booklet, "36 Home Organizing Ideas for Your Family Around the Year". This 16- [...]

Are you ready for A Fresh Start?

gail@afreshstartorganizing.net — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Whether you celebrate Easter or not, the feeling of new beginnings is in the air. Spring is my absolute favorite time of the year. Everything seems clean and fresh. (Yes, you can tell my mood by how clean and picked up my home is! Mess = Stress) New plants [...]

Home Organizing Tip-of-the-Month for April

owner@thecluttercoach.com — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:00:00 +0100

After you finish your taxes, use this time to get back to daily paper management.

When you get the mail, sort it the same day into different categories, such as trash, mail for yourself, mail for your spouse, and mail for each of your children. Trash should immediately go into the garbage or recycle bin. Bills should go to whoever pays them. Each category should go into a mail slot (a paper tray, cubby hole, file, etc.), and each person in the family should be made [...]

Organizing the "Right Way"

alexandra@decoratingbythesea.com — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:00:00 +0100

How many of us get paralyzed with the thought of tackling a project, because we do not have the perfect scheme, perfect supplies, perfect know-how. My philosophy is: Excellence, not Perfection.

Perfection is usually quite unattainable, but excellence, doing the best you can with the tools you have, is doable for everyone to their own degree.
When you are trying to organize your home and family, there is not necessarily a correct way of doing this. Y [...]

My Own Battle With Organization, Part 2

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Last weekend I participated in a Home Show. See my previous blog on the topic for the details. In a nutshell, I was feeling a bit frantic right before the show, and shared some of my own feelings about dealing with disorganization. I promised a follow up, so...

I would deem the show a success for my organizing business. It was great exposure for me, and I met a lot of people who are eager to get organized. I also learned a few things about home shows - things that can eas [...]

Creative Ways to Save Money

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Part of being organized is running an efficient household budget. Where are you spending your money? Could you be spending less? Here are a few easy ways to cut back on spending in your home. You don't even have to give up what you love. You just have to be more creative and do a little bit of planning.

Lose your landline. Maybe this one isn't so creative, as more and more people are going this route. If you have a cell phone and carry it with you all the time, why pay fo [...]

5 Organizing Stigmas We Need to Overcome

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Clutter brings with it a good deal of guilt. But guilt, like clutter, needs to be purged from your life! Below are some thoughts that hold us back from doing our best organizing, and some tips for dealing with them.

An organized room has to be pretty: Not so! Who decides what pretty is, anyway? A few days worth of mail on the kitchen table, or a pile of shoes by the front door is ok, if you can find what you need when you need it. But if you're taking more than a minute to find [...]