Clever Clothing Decluttering Tricks Is your closet bursting at the seams and yet, you can’t find a thing to wear? When you have too much and your clothes are strewn all over the floor and hanging out of drawers, it can be hard to find anything at all, much less be able to put an outfit together! Your entire day can be thrown off if...
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6 Ways to Organize Your Kid’s Closets Kid’s closets can be a black hole of dirty clothes, toys and whatever gets thrown in there during clean up time. You can teach your kids to be organized and clean up after themselves, but they need a good organizational system in place first. 1. Make it user-friendly. Use open, kid-friendly containers on low shelving so your child...
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Warm Up Your Closet for Fall! With a few very chilly mornings under our belt here in Boston, it’s clear that Fall is upon us. And with that, comes the need for a seasonal closet review and mostly likely switch. Unless you own very little clothing or have a very large closet, you probably need to store off-season clothing in a less-accessible location – such...
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10 Tips to Reorganize your Storage Space The weeks are hectic enough without any added disorganization, plus the last thing you want to do after a long day is to have to search for things or run around trying to find last-minute replacements. With these 10 tips you can get your storage space reorganized and ready for any season. Getting it organized now before the...
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Get your Garage in Gear – Organizing for the Upcoming Fall & Winter! How often, after being hit with the first serious snowfall of the year, have you shoveled out and scraped off your car, opened up the garage in the hopes of absolving yourself of this chore the next time, and realized that in the preceding months, you’ve managed to fill every available space...
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Garage Storage Solutions Often our garage becomes a dumping ground for all the items we can’t fit into the house. Tools, sports equipment and seasonal items have a way of piling up, especially when you have a big, open space to toss them in! When winter comes, you’re left wishing you had some space for your car, but by then it’s too cold out to...
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Effective Email Management Keeping up with the daily onslaught of emails is a major challenge for most of us, both personally & professionally. The following tips will help you manage the daily flow of emails: Create an electronic filing cabinet, much like the physical cabinets you have, with electronic folders for category names. Once emails have been read and responded to (if an action is...
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Back-to-School: 4 Benefits of Hiring a Professional Organizer When we at Organizing Boston ask our clients to tell us their main inspiration for wanting to de-clutter and organize their home before their children go back-to-school, we’ll get a similar answer from most parents: that they’re worried the effects of a disorganized home will lead to a chaotic and stressful year. The good news for them...
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Back-to-School 101: Tips for Parents It’s almost the start of a new school year, and pretty soon you’ll be surrounded by freshly sharpened pencils, backpacks, and a whole new set of etiquette dilemmas that aren’t addressed in your kids’ textbooks. Master the Do’s and Don’ts of dealing with teachers and schools and earn an A++ for diplomacy. DO introduce yourself to the teacher within the...
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Back to School Organizing Inspiration If you have kids, staying organized at home probably feels somewhere between an absolute necessity and utterly impossible. Ok, let’s not kid ourselves, most days you’re probably leaning toward the utterly impossible side of that equation. Now throw getting prepared for back to school into the mix. But don’t give up just yet, every bit of organizing effort you put...
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