I love my home office. It’s so pretty, fun and hot pink. You too can have the home office of your dreams, or at least you can make it less of a nightmare. And why not do it now. After all, March 9 is Organizing Your Home Office Day.
Category: Organizing Tips
Organizing for Singles
I’m a single chick myself, and I know firsthand how hard it is to keep up with everything you need to take care of. So let’s talk about Organizing for the Single Person. The first major issue with singles is that we don’t have anyone to delegate to unless we pay them. If friends help you, you still have to pay them in food, beer or both.
Quality over Quantity
One of the tenets of my organizing belief system is “quality over quantity.” He or she who has the most toys is not the winner. I’ve seen it time and time again in my organizing work and even long before I became an organizer.
When Organizing and Staging Collide
By Professional Organizer Liz Jenkins Staging a house is all about making it attractive to potential buyers, but one of the biggest issues in most homes is – you guessed it – clutter! The way you live in a home has nothing to do with the way you sell a home. Creating a welcoming atmosphere for potential buyers where they…
Be Productive With Attitude: Got Gumption?
One of my favorite movies is The Holiday, and in it, Kate Winslet’s character learns all about gumption from watching heroines in old movies. Gumption, in her case, was the fearless determination to dump the philandering boyfriend and leap forward into her new life. Gumption is a necessary tool in your productivity arsenal.
Organizing Your Mortgage Papers
When I bought my house in fall 2009, I wound up with a large stack of legal size mortgage papers and another stack of papers left by the previous homeowner. The problem was the papers didn’t fit in my file cabinet. I’m not a big fan of folding legal-size papers to fit into regular folders because it creates bulky files. So how to organize your mortgage papers?