As a full time single mom running a business and living a fabulous life I understand the value of getting help to keep things running smoothly at home. Kids, at least mine, tend to do very well when they know what’s expected of them and what the plan is. We have chore charts that outline [...]
The current school year is coming to a close and as an accelerated learner my daughter has a good size project that was due. At 10 years old she isn’t yet displaying some of the natural organization I have, really she could care less about a clean room or tidy work area. She’s highly creative [...]
I wrote this post then received this newsletter article from a local CPA in my business networking group. I thought it would be great to post her record keeping instructions. Her contact info is below. Thank you Karen Peak for the great tips! Recordkeeping: What to Keep and What to Toss Once you’ve filed your [...]
As I left a senior client location this morning I had a deeper awareness of the value I bring to my clients. There’s a great deal of value in the ideas and resources I provide when it come to organizing a space or planning a move for a senior client, but the greater value really [...]
Organize Children’s Art Work We’re looking at the Ten Toughest Things to Toss and in past posts I have addressed books, photos, greeting cards, crafts, baby stuff and paperwork. This post addresses another tough item for Moms and Dads to release; children’s art work. You know the beautiful family portraits made lovingly with finger paints [...]
If you could hear how it sounds in my head when I say PAPER….you could probably relate, the word paper moves through my head starting out at normal tone but gets very low and heavy by the time I get to the er….This is why Paper is on our top 10 list of the “Toughest [...]
Take a look around your office right now….go ahead, I’ll wait…..can you see your checkbook, extra checks, client information or other confidential documents? A client of mine shared an interesting and important observation recently. While visiting the offices of a few colleagues he noticed confidential documents in plain view. In today’s society with identify theft [...]
Post 5 of 10: Baby Stuff Our Toughest Things to Toss series continues with a Baby Stuff at number 5. We talked about some of the most challenging hurdles of letting go; books, photos, greeting cards and crafty items and now we’re moving into a doozie, why is Baby Stuff so challenging…well because it’s baby [...]
As a professional organizer the two words I try to most avoid with a client is “For Now.” This is a simple but powerful phrase. “For Now” is the reason clutter is there in the first place. Clutter is a delayed decision. Well, many many delayed decisions actually and “For Now” is the catalyst for [...]
Post 4 of 10: Crafty Stuff In part 4 of our 10 part series on the “Toughest Things to Toss” we’re talking about Craft Supplies…dun, dun, dunnnn. I spoke to about 100 quilters at a Quilters Guild Meeting several years ago and got an education on the power of the fabric swatch. Until that meeting [...]
Greeting Cards and Letters “Toughest Things to Toss” is a 10 part blog series on the most challenging items for people to let go of when organizing. We’ve discussed books and photos and now we’re going to take a look at greeting cards and letters. Unlike books greeting cards and letters are customized to the [...]
Recently I posted a Love Story about the sexy red platform shoes that I saw in San Francisco a few weekends ago. But what I want to share with you in this post is not a lesson in organizing, like that last post, but rather a little bit about manifesting. So, yep, these are the [...]
