Posts Tagged ‘organizing’
Cue The Container Store
Cue The Container Store. I’ve recommended The Container Store for many many years for the solutions you can’t find elsewhere: excellent storage for memorabilia, general-use bins that are smaller than typical, larger than usual. My spice rack, 15 years old, came from The Container Store and there’d been NO other option to fit the space…
Read MoreBuying Organizing Services as a Gift
Buying organizing services as a gift. Sounds like a great idea, right? On New Year’s Eve, when you may be thinking of gifting organizing services to someone for her New Year’s Resolution, or thinking ahead to his Valentine’s Day present, or already panicking about your wedding anniversary with them… Let the buyer beware. A surprise…
Read MoreMore tall less flat
More tall less flat. That was the closest to coherence I could get this morning, because I did NOT get enough sleep, as I did a quick pass clearing up in my bedroom. I’ll explain in a minute. Organizing is not static. If it were, Organizers might be out of a job. Organizing is…
Read MoreUnstuff Your Life! Andrew J. Mellen
Andrew J. Mellen, once-upon-a-time VirgoMan and now “simply” “The Most Organized Man in America,” began in the organizing profession in 1996. He’s another of our giants – a little more literally, since he stands at 6′ 1″ – alongside such luminaries as Judith Kolberg and Julie Morgenstern. Luminary is appropriate in another sense – Mellen…
Read MoreFirst Organizer on the Road Show of the New Year
Organizer on the Road Show Saturday January 25, 2020 2:00PM Sno-Valley Senior Center 4610 Stephens Avenue PO Box 96 Carnation, WA 98014 I have a portable demonstration of an organizing session, to let anyone get familiar and comfortable with the process. It’s a bin of items my clients and I often encounter in our…
Read MoreFREE TOOL – THINK ABOUT YOUR ORGANIZING CHALLENGES
Free tool on my website homepage. A copy of the Casual Uncluttering LLC survey I use to start or continue conversations with my potential and existing clients. Download it for yourself, give it to people who might need it!
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My son likes hip hop and rap. Not my favorites. But he’s home from school this week and visiting with me, so sure, I’ll have that so-called music on in the car. And I’m having a somewhat harder time driving. Switch the station back to my preference for driving – classic rock, thank you very…
Read MoreSpark joy by Marie Kondo
I disliked Ms. Kondo’s first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. I’m warmer to Spark Joy: an illustrated master class on the art of organizing and tidying up. It’s significantly gentler: Ms. Kondo has softened her “my way or else” invocations, acknowledging that people can use other approaches to their…
Read MoreMarie Kondo “the life-changing magic of tidying-up: the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing”
Marie Kondo’s “the life-changing magic of tidying up: the Japanese art of decluttering and organizing” Doesn’t Translate for Me As a Professional Organizer, I wanted to give a balanced review of Ms. Kondo’s book. I am quite sure, having explored the website of the Japan Association of Life Organisers (JALO), that there are…
Read More5 Reasons Why Letting Go is Good for the Soul
This is the third article I’ve written for Jeff Moore’s fantastic website EveryDayPowerBlog. It was fun writing, but the best part is the video that Jeff found for the end. I’m reprinting the article with Jeff’s permission, but PLEASE go online for the film. It’s fascinating. 5 Reasons Why Letting Go is Good for the Soul…
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