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Clutter Busting

Easy Organizing Tips for Your Child’s Room

June 19, 2010

Do you constantly battle to get your child to clean their room? Do you wonder if you will ever see the floor in your lifetime? Organizational Expert Julie Morgenstern shared five tips for helping to organize your child’s room in the June 2, 2009 issue of Woman’s Day magazine. It really does make sense to [...]

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More on Teaching Your Children About Organization

June 12, 2010

I came across a great article on the Stacks and Stacks website that shares six rules that will help create order and teach your children how to organize. Children who have clean and organized rooms will get ready in the morning faster since there will be less chaos and confusion in their room. They will [...]

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Getting Your Children to Help You Stay Organized

June 5, 2010

With summer close and school almost done for the year wouldn’t it be great to have help from your family to keep the house organized and clutter-free this summer. But how do you engage your children in helping you clean up? In the May 1, 2010 Women’s Day magazine article: “Ready, set, get organized” Arianne [...]

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A Stylish and Organized Patio (or Deck) for Balance

May 29, 2010

With warm weather and the outdoors calling us, just don’t put your patio furniture out there without a thought. Use Feng Shui as suggested in a Stacks and Stacks article to help bring balance to your life by making this space as peaceful as possible. Here are some other things to consider when setting up [...]

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Stylish Storage: A Way to Stay Clutter-free

May 22, 2010

Having chic clutter cures are a great way to get motivated to clear clutter and keep it away. If I haven’t convenience you yet or if a reminder is needed…having a clear, fresh space will let you breathe easier, feel calmer and provide you with free space to allow new things in. By using boxes, [...]

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Financially Fit Paper Records

May 15, 2010

With tax season now over, if you haven’t already done so, it is time to get your tax records in order. Yahoo has a great article on what paper records to keep or toss. Here are some other tips for handling paper clutter: Set up a system now for collecting 2010 receipts and tax documents [...]

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Organize Your Garage

May 8, 2010

Most of us enter our homes from the garage. In fact, we probably pass through our garage more than we do our living rooms. Now that you have had a garage sale, take the extra step and organize your garage to be clutter-free. Here are some tips (assuming that you already had some of the [...]

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Clutter Busting: Getting Ready for a Garage Sale

May 1, 2010

Locally spring time comes and so do the garage sales in my area…my subdivision included. Since you are already committed to spring clean this year and get rid of the clutter in your life, why not consider participating in your neighborhood garage sale or set one up yourself. Here are some ideas for the logistics: [...]

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Can You Really Speed Spring Clean?

April 24, 2010

In the March 2010 issue of Woman’s Day magazine author, Arianne Cohen, poses the question “who does a big annual cleaning anyway? and why?” in the Solutions Tip Talk section. In the article she shared her speed spring cleaning experience from last year. She decided to devote just three mornings to quickly moving from room [...]

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Spring Cleaning and Clearing Clutter

April 17, 2010

Spring is a great time of year. It is a time of year that we think about renewal, birth and freshness. Or at least I think of these thing. Many of us may think about spring as a time to do a deep cleaning like when were children. My mom cleaned the house from top to bottom [...]

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