How to Keep Yourself Organized This Holiday Season With the holiday sales in full swing due to the chain supply crisis, now seems like a good time for a little pre-holiday pep talk to keep us all going! Even if you love the holidays, it can be a busy and stressful time of year. The holidays can add about a million items to your to-do...
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End of School Preparation- Tips for Organizing Kids’ Clothes With warmer temperatures, school ending soon, and family vacations to look forward to, Summer can be a wonderful chance to unwind and spend quality time with family and friends. But Summer also has its organizational challenges, especially with finding the time to changeover seasonal clothing and store away cold weather items. Don’t wait until school’s out...
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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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Preparing for Your Stress-Free Move! We don’t know too many people who love to pack, but if you are getting ready for a big move, there are some smart moves you can make to at least take advantage of a prime de-cluttering opportunity and ward off last minute stress. 1) Plan ahead as much as possible. In most cases, a move or home project is...
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Make Your Donations Count at Tax Time Getting into the habit of making donations of your gently used clothing and household goods is a great way to keep your space clutter free! But beyond keeping your space in check, making donations has other benefits, including keeping usable items out of landfills, providing items to organizations who can do some good with them, and of course...
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Get Organized Challenge: Celebrate Your Successes Last week, we wrapped up our Get Organized Challenge: 5 Weeks to a More Organized You. Over the course of the challenge we focused on developing 5 healthy organizing habits that, when practiced regularly, can lead you down the path to happily organized. Just to recap, those 5 healthy habits are: Buy less stuff. The less you buy, the...
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Get Organized Challenge Week 5: One In, One Out Wow – time flies when you’re working on your organizing super powers! Over the last 4 weeks, we’ve practiced buying less stuff, making sure the stuff you have passes the test, making a home for everything in your home, and cleaning up as you go. We’ve also reminded ourselves that it’s not about being perfect but...
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Get Organized Challenge Week 4: Clean Up As You Go Here we are – week 4 of our Get Organized Challenge: 5 Weeks to a More Organized You! By now, you’re buying less stuff, making sure the stuff you have passes the test, and making a home for everything in your home. Or at least you’re working on it. I’m a realist – it’s not...
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Get Organized Challenge Week 3: Make a Home for Everything! It’s hard to believe, but we’re already on Week 3 of our 2014 Get Organized Challenge. If you’d like to catch up, you can check out the first two posts and brush up on the organizing skills we’ve already started practicing: 1) Buy less stuff and 2) Give your stuff the “Do I need it,...
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Get Organized Challenge Week 2: Does it pass the test? If you’ve been following along with us, you know that last week we decided to kick off 2014 with our Get Organized Challenge: 5 Weeks to a More Organized You. Our plan is to focus on one new organizing skill each week with the goal of getting ourselves into amazing organizational shape. Last week’s challenge/skill...
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