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Organizing

Recruit Your Kids to Help Get Their Rooms Organized

June 21, 2011

With kids out of school, this could be the perfect time to recruit them to help organize their rooms. If you get them to help plan the job and help with the work, they just might be more interested in keeping their things organized. Once you evaluate the task at hand, you may feel that [...]

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15 Great Decluttering Tips

June 14, 2011

As with anything, getting rid of clutter can be made incredibly simple: just go through your stuff, one section, closet, drawer, or shelf at a time, and get rid of everything that isn’t absolutely essential, that you don’t love and use often. Of course, simplifying a process like that isn’t terribly useful to many people [...]

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Baby Steps for Organization

May 10, 2011

Amid the endless piles of laundry, dishes, forgotten bills, and overdue library books, you have a house. A house you would desperately love to show off with pride. It makes you depressed even to think about how to get this mess organized. You feel your only hope now lies in the chance that one of [...]

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Magic Minimum: Cleaning Secret of Organized Families

March 22, 2011

Is it time to clean? Not for today’s busy families. Between work, children’s activities, and vacation plans, even the most leisurely days don’t seem long enough to get everything done at home. There’s a solution for busy times! Just as your body needs a “minimum daily allowance” of vitamins and minerals, an organized home needs [...]

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Conquering Clutter – The 4 Container Method

March 15, 2011

Have you ever tried to get rid of the clutter in your home? Haphazardly we walk through our homes searching for stuff we don’t need. Oddly enough each item seems to call out to us with its greater purpose in the scheme of our lives. You’ve heard the phrase that clutter takes on a life [...]

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Genius Garage Organizing Solutions

December 30, 2010

Is it getting harder and harder to squeeze your car between the stacks of half-empty paint cans and castoff furnishings in your garage? This utilitarian space is a convenient catchall, but it can quickly turn into a dumping ground without the right storage strategy. The first step to restoring order is deciding what to toss, [...]

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11 Myths of Decluttering

December 28, 2010

Overcome your clutter excuses for a truly organized house with this article excerpted from Gretchen Rubin’s website Happiness-Project.com. As much as most of us want to keep our home, office, car, etc. in reasonable order, it’s tough. This article contains a list of some myths of decluttering that make it harder to get rid of [...]

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Make Over Your Junk Drawer

December 23, 2010

Everyone seems to have one—a kitchen catchall that, like the Little Mermaid’s cavern, holds treasures untold and is normally in a state of complete disarray. But tackling that mess is surprisingly easy and will save you time in the long run. This article will show you how to clean out your drawer now and save [...]

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