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5 Eye-Opening Tips To Assist You In Getting Rid of Clutter

I love watching the Olympics and the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver have been no exception. When one of the experienced cross country skiers fell and slipped into a ravine and hurt herself the commentator said he “just couldn’t write this stuff”. It was the first time I have ever seen such a fall. I cross country ski because I love skiing but am afraid of heights so I can’t go downhill skiing. I am in awe of the athletics that just zip down those hills with no fear or race on those tiny skating blades.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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5 Worry-Free Ways To Take Care Of Inherited Memorabilia

My aunt was married for the first time when she was 42 years old. She married Uncle Fred who treated her like a queen but they were only married for five years before he died. A year later she married a neighbor man whose wife had died at the same time as Uncle Fred. They were happy together for four years before his life was cut short from a botched operation and she was left alone. Her and her widowed sister then shared a house together until her sister died.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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4 Life-Enriching Ways To Simplify Your Life

Awhile ago I saw a sign with these words: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify. Someone had crossed off the first two words. I had to chuckle. Just simplify. In my role as a professional organizer I have been working with a woman who has had no less than 6 deaths of close family members (including a young daughter and her parents all within 18 months). She received a great out pouring of love and things from her friends which actually created a burden for her.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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Clear Clutter to Reduce Risk of Fire in Your Home

One Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. I was looking out my kitchen window watching a fireman dressed who was dressed in his blue uniform carrying what looked like a heavy back pack on his back walking up the steep street in front of our home. I wondered where he was going and why he would be in uniform on a Saturday morning. It was already a hot 80 degrees heading up to 98 degrees in the afte oon.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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How To Declutter Your Childrens School Papers

Wouldn’t you love to have the paper contract for your child’s school? You would be rich. Our kids bring home so much paper every day from school and we wonder what should we keep and where do we put it all? Here are wonderful tips from a mother of five who is a professional organizer. The paper kids bring home is in one of three categories: 1. Paper you must review—permission slips, requests for signatures/money etc. 2. Child’s art work 3.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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8 Timely Tips to Help You Stretch Your Time

We all only have so many hours in the day to do everything we want to do. Have you ever said, “Where did the day go, I didn’t get anything done”? Here are 8 tips on how to get more done in a day and maybe you can push that snooze button one more time. 1. When you can, multi-task to save time. For instance, put in a batch of wash while you cook breakfast or read to a child. Have a cake baking in the oven while you write a letter.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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9 Tips on How to Declutter Paper in Your Home

I remember when computers were becoming really popular and we all thought they would take care of our paper work pile ups. A man working next to me said he thought they would create more paperwork nightmares. From my observations this has become true. I have 9 tips on how to declutter paper in our homes and offices: 1. Create a filing system that works for you. I use Freedom Filer that is based on placing everything in color coded categories. The first step is to gather up all your lose papers.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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Get More Out of Life Clear Clutter Using a Day Planner

Have you ever forgotten an appointment or an important date? Do you think of things you need to do later but don’t remember to do them because you have no place to write them down? Do you have one place to write your most frequently used phone numbers and addresses? How would you like a memory prompter? Do you need a stress reliever in your life? Do you want to clear the clutter in your life? Obtaining a day planner and using it can clear the clutter and organize your life. “The worst pencil and paper is better than the best memory”. That is so true.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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Live Light Using These 5 Simple Steps to Organizing Clutter

Long before people came to the Americas and took over the land the Indians lived in beautiful harmony with the land. They “lived light on the land”. Many tribes traveled from place to place depending on the food sources, weather and other conditions. They traveled with their homes and all of their earthly belongings. They respected the earth and had only what they could use. I can safely say as a professional organizer that the majority of us “live heavy on the land”. We have homes we chuck full of things.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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9 Tips on How to Declutter Paper in Your Home

I remember when computers were becoming really popular and we all thought they would take care of our paper work pile ups. A man working next to me said he thought they would create more paperwork nightmares. From my observations this has become true. I have 9 tips on how to declutter paper in our homes and offices: 1. Create a filing system that works for you. I use Freedom Filer that is based on placing everything in color coded categories. The first step is to gather up all your lose papers.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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Inspiring Cooperation in Others to Organize Through Clutter Control

As a professional organizer, when I speak to women’s group I am often asked, “how can I get my children to pick up after themselves” or “how can I get my husband to put his tools away or pick up his socks and put them in the hamper”? I have suggestions on how to motivate children but when it ...

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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Clearing Clutter in the Kitchen Once and for All

As a professional organizer I work with women and seniors clearing clutter in their kitchens. This is a problem room for many people. Clearing clutter can be done pretty easy if it is done a little at a time and isn’t allowed to get out of control. One great idea that works well in clearing ...

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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Getting Rid Of Clutter and Loosing Weight

It was a warm July morning, birds were singing outside my open window and the curtains ruffled in the breeze. I was standing in my bedroom and I was scared. I thought scary things are supposed to only happen in the dark on cold rainy nights. I had a good reason to be afraid as I was trying to find something to wear and nothing I had in my closet or drawers were fitting.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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4 Time-Tested Tips To Easily Find More Time In A Day

Are you stressed because there isn’t enough time in the day to declutter your home, run the kids everywhere, cook meals and have time for yourself? Here are 4 time-tested tips to help you find more time without being stressed to do it. My mother used to say “A stitch in time Saves Nine”. I just didn’t get that as a child but as I got older and I got a rip in my clothing and I was the one who had to mend it I understood what she meant.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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7 Tips on How To Get Your Spouse Organized

Do you find yourself nagging your spouse to get rid of clutter and to organize? Nagging doesn’t work and can drive a wedge between you. These 7 tips will help get your spouse organized without nagging. As a professional organizer one questio I am often asked is, “How do I get my husband to get organized?” I have given this some serious thought and have come up with a few ideas that will help you help him without turning into a nag.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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How To Organize Now For More Summer Fun Later

Spring organizing gives you the jump on summer fun. 8 valuable tips will have you organized in no time. It is such a gorgeous spring day I washed my car. I will wonder where I am now that I don’t have to look out of windows covered with smudged gunk the tires spray on the windows and rear view mirror. I got out the window cleaner and while washing the windows the birds nearby were chattering away. Ahh, it is so good to hear the birds again.

Primary topic: Organizing and Learning How to Organize
Organizing and Learning How to Organize
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