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Walk While U Work

This week's Time Magazine featured a story on Steelcase's Walkstation, an adjustable-height desk with a treadmill built in. Talk about multitasking! (photo from Steelcase's website) You can see a video of editor-at-large Belinda Luscombe using the desk and explaining how it works here. It goes up to a maximum speed of 2 mph, so you… Read more »

Wonderful Graffiti- A New Way to Label

You must realize that labeling is a very important thing to me and my tribe. We love to finish projects by labeling the bins, files, spines, or trays and making it all official, mainly because it helps the system stay intact. I am always looking for attractive ways to label, since you don't want your home to… Read more »

Stop Printing, Signing & Faxing- Use Digital Signatures

Most people are familiar with Adobe's PDF universal document format and have the free Adobe Reader that enables you to read them. Some people have Adobe Acrobat Professional software, and that enables you to do much more with the creation and editing of PDF files. PDFs are great because they basically "freeze" the text and… Read more »

More Organizing Sales

The Container Store is extending their Oprah show 20% discount through November 30th, so we are going to do the same! Our coupon code "OPRAHDEAL" will still provide a 20% discount in our own online store at ClutterDiet.com through November 30th, 2008.  (good for products only, not memberships) Our friends at Organize.com are also having… Read more »

Discretionary Burdens

Sometimes you read things that are simply best quoted in their entirety. I often feel that way about my friend Pat Katz. Here's what she had to say recently in her PAUSE newsletter: It was late in the evening just before Hallowe'en. I was chatting on the phone with my daughter, and had just recited the litany… Read more »

We’re Having an Oprah Sale

Yesterday Oprah did a big show on clutter and offered a Container Store discount coupon of 20% off through next week. In honor of that, we are having our own "Oprah sale" in our shopping cart! Through Wednesday 11/19/08, you can get 20% off all products in our store (not memberships) when you use the coupon… Read more »

Rearrange Your Furniture…Virtually

One of the things I have done as a Professional Organizer is advise clients who are building homes, telling them how to get the most storage space into their plans, consulting on closets, and putting in maintenance-saving ideas. My family and I have also built 4 homes ourselves along the way, and one of the obstacles you… Read more »

What Your Stuff Says About You

I have been in hundreds of homes and offices in my capacity as a Professional Organizer, and over the years I have definitely learned how to size up people fairly well from their "stuff." Bookshelves in particular are a real window into a person's interests and beliefs, for example. And seeing a person's desk in its natural state tells me… Read more »

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