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Keeping track of paper can be maddening! Even in this day of “paperless” there is no escaping paper coming into your space. But there is a great tool that can help you keep the [...]

I have a passion for organizing offices.  Sure, I get excited to organize chaos in any area of a house and yes, I’ve been called crazy because of it. But organizing offices really blows my skirt [...]

Let me be clear, I am not writing this to get into a debate about whether eating meat is “evil”  – as some put it – and bad for the environment or our health – unless the debate is a healthy one [...]

Ahh, home sweet home. In organizing talk, this is one very important phrase. When something has a convenient, logical, home – it means all is good with your belongings — and your mind.  You know [...]

I hear many excuses from people about why they just can’t get organized. And one that rises to the top often is space — they don’t have enough of it. Having enough space to organize all you want [...]

I mean why not? Yes, cocaine is a drug, that is addictive and detrimental.  Sure, it is a toxic substance and it would seem a travesty to allow it into our bodies – legally. And of course, it [...]

In the past 20+ years as a Professional Organizer, I have learned a thing or two about getting organized. And I am very sure that believing it is possible plays a part in the how-to of getting [...]

I have heard this mentioned to me a lot in the past year – the idea of measuring progress.  After we adopted our daughter at the age of 4, the advice about how to feel good about what I was doing [...]

A few years ago, I wrote about my goal to address the hidden clutter taking up space in my office. Oh the freedom I felt after doing a great big purge, getting rid of what I didn’t need or [...]

Clutter — you can’t live happily with it [in my opinion].  You can live quite well without it.  And most of us know this – intellectually. We just have a hard time actually developing the [...]