The holidays make it more likely that guests will come to visit. Your guest room may only be used two weeks a year, but winter break probably makes up at least one of the weeks, with summer holding court for the other. Get your guest room guest ready for your upcoming visitors with these handy lists. Read More
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Prep Your Pantry for Cooking Holidays
Organizing your pantry before cooking holidays is a small project with a big payoff. The holiday season asks a lot of pantries. You may be baking cookies and pies, serving big meals, or hosting out of town guests. Having expired food, jumbled categories, and stuffed shelves makes the holidays harder. Here are five steps to Read More
Get Your Teen Organized By Creating Routines
Your school-aged kids and teens are close to midterm time and you’ve probably got a sense of what’s working or isn’t in your family’s school year routines. Courtney Harris of Courtney Harris Coaching is the author of this week’s guest post on the importance of routines for teenagers. She and I will be co-leading a workshop Read More
Declutter Your Books
Let me just start out by saying I love books. I have three degrees in English. I have a library in my house. So, the advice I’m about to give you is from someone who understands why you love your books and don’t want to get rid of them. And yet, I am going to Read More
Fall Decluttering Tips from a Professional Organizer
Nature gives us a great cue in the fall: let go of what no longer serves you. The trees know to drop their leaves. The days get shorter, nights get longer, and we stay home more. This is the perfect time to turn our attention to our house—and do some fall decluttering. We clear out the Read More
Organize Your Bills
In my last post, I advised that you opt-out of mailings to reduce paper coming into your home. This week, I want you to take it one step further. Go paperless. Why should you go paperless? Besides helping the environment and decreasing the chances of identity theft, you’ll reduce paper clutter, stop having so many Read More
Stop Paper Clutter with 4 Easy Opt Out Tricks
For those of us with school-aged kids or who work in education, the new year starts about now – when our kids go back to school. You don’t need to make a resolution to make your life easier. When you opt out of prescreened mail, you stop a major source of paper clutter before permission Read More
Make Back to School Less Brutal with Checklists for Kids
It’s back to school time and the transition can be brutal. Remembering what to take out of the house, getting stuff done once you’re home, and getting to bed on time can feel harder at this time of year than any other. Make your family’s life easier by creating checklists. Checklists for What? Introducing checklists Read More
Where Do I Get Rid of …?
So you’ve gone through all of your stuff and created a donate pile. Where can it go? When you’ve got a whole lot to donate at once, I recommend giving to one charity that can take as much of what you’re giving away as possible. You’ve already done the work of sorting through everything to clear Read More
Organize Your Energy, Time, & Spending This Holiday Season
Santa is not the only one who should be making a list and checking it twice this time of year. In the holiday season, the big challenges are to not do too much or spend too much. The pressures to do both are high. Don’t Over DO Put the things you want to make sure Read More