Closed September 2017
Each week we are posting a one-minute-ish quick video tip on something useful and practical that you can apply right away! It’s the one chore that you can never really complete. Unless you are a nudist, you can’t quite finish washing clothes. Does the word laundry make you want to scream? If you have ever… Read more »
One of the most humorous things I notice in my work as a Professional Organizer is how many people collect National Geographic magazines. I think of them as the "Golden Shelves of Glory" when I walk into a room and see them. Here's a photo of some in a basement, but often they are very… Read more »
Each week we are posting a one-minute-ish quick video tip on something useful and practical that you can apply right away! So, what’s for dinner tonight? Are you mentally scanning the contents of your refrigerator or pantry right now? (Click here to watch on YouTube if you can’t see the embedded player.) Transcript: Hi…. Read more »
When your computer hard drive slows down, you can run a defragmentation utility on it, rearranging the pieces of its memory to make it work better again. Sure wish you could do that for your brain! I've been traveling a lot recently and have had several projects going at once, along with everything that I… Read more »
Each week we are posting a one-minute-ish quick video tip on something useful and practical that you can apply right away! To work like the pros you need the tools of the pros. What do professional organizers carry in their toolkits? (Click here to watch on YouTube if you can’t see the embedded player.) … Read more »
I want to bring up what I call "Duotasking" again. Not multitasking, DUOtasking. (See original post on this idea here.) My definition of Duotasking: Elegant pairs of tasks that can be done simultaneously with no negative effects. You can either set one task in motion to operate independently from the other, or one task might… Read more »
I'm being a heretic again. It's quite popular now in our industry of organizing and productivity to give the firm advice not to check email first thing in the morning. I really have to disagree with that, and I'm sorry because some of the people who say this the most are friends of mine… But… Read more »
When I was just starting my organizing business ten years ago, a huge percentage of our clients came to us from a large (expensive) ad we had in the Yellow Pages. I did a lot of close tracking on that, and I watched that change, slowly but surely, from Yellow Pages to Google. The last… Read more »
Each week we are posting a one-minute-ish quick video tip on something useful and practical that you can apply right away! Have you used those great gift cards you got for the holidays? Do you know where your gift certificates and special offers are? Or did you get a gift card that you aren’t exactly… Read more »
By Kimberly Fusaro Forget about organizing overhauls. (Who has the energy?) The slow-and-steady approach is much more effective for time-pressed moms. Tackle just a couple of our 30 super-simple projects – that pile of jumbled cords in the family room today, the overflowing drawer of cooking utensils tomorrow. You’ll be inspired by the day-to-day results,… Read more »
