March 28, 2008 by Irene Seiberling, Canwest News Service Want to shed some unwanted clutter pounds? What you need is to put your home on a diet — the Clutter Diet — insists the creator of an online program designed to help people get organized. “We’re modelling ourselves after Weight Watchers,” said Lorie Marrero, creator… Read more »
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News 8 Austin: Cut the Clutter
March 27, 2008 News 8 Austin’s 13-part series is showing on Thursdays starting January 3, 2008, every hour from 5:00AM to 4:00PM. Click the links below to see each segment. 1/3/08: Destination Stations 1/10/08: Gift Wrapping Stations 1/17/08: Organizing Toolkit 1/24/08: Maximize Your Storage Space 1/31/08: Organizing Medications 2/7/08: Five Ways to Label Like the… Read more »
Swap Books at Work
One of our Clutter Diet members in the UK was telling us in the member message boards that they have a book swap shelf at work. That is BRILLIANT! Why not do this in your own workplace? Here are the benefits: Gives your gently used books a good home (and gets them out of your… Read more »
Save Tons of Time on the Phone!
I just found out from Kim Komando that there is this great site called "BRINGO" at www.nophonetrees.com that lets you immediately talk to a human being when you’re trying to call a big company, like a lender, insurance company, or airline. You go to their site, find the company you want to speak with, enter… Read more »
Organize Your Family’s Schedules
I recently tested a couple of great resources for people who are managing a busy family’s schedule. Cozi, at www.cozi.com, and AirSet, at www.airset.com, are both really solid online scheduling tools for multiple people. (logos shown here from their respective websites) Both applications would be ideal if you have a computer in or very near… Read more »
Twitterpated
Remember how Bambi and the other animals in the forest talked about being "twitterpated?" Well, I am kind of twitterpated over "Twitter." Some of you might have noticed my little "Twitter Updates" feed in the right sidebar of my blog page. It’s kind of like a mini-blog. When I first heard about it, I thought,… Read more »
Calgary Sun features Clutter Diet
March 15, 2008 By Nicole Vaive It’s a great feeling one gets after successfully purging the garage or laundry room of five tons of junk. But it’s always disappointing a few months later when junk has accumulated again. Organization isn’t something done in a day, no matter how much old sports equipment is carted off… Read more »
Decluttering Your Relationships
I heard Sandra Yancey, founder of eWomen Network, speak recently and really enjoyed it. She is one of many speakers I’ve heard who have quoted the idea that "you ARE the average of the five people you spend the most time with." This idea includes everything, from your actual net worth to the values and… Read more »
Label the Light Switches
Someone was visiting my home recently and commented on the light switch labels we have…I have always done this in every home we've lived in, because I get confused! So it's just a natural thing to label the things that confuse me so I won't make the same mistakes over and over. Here is a… Read more »
Honesty Check! How Do You REALLY Spend Your Time?
We’ve talked before about keeping a time log of how you spend your hours. To me, this is not necessarily something you’d want to do ongoing, but more of an exercise in awareness. It takes some time and energy just to do the logging itself… however, I am testing this software/web application called "Rescue Time"… Read more »
