November 30, 2007 Clutter Diet Puts Toys in Their Place Lorie Marrero, a longtime professional organizer based in Austin, says parents and grandparents don’t have to feel like Scrooge. “Toys and the clutter they create are one of the most common problems we encounter in our business,” she says. “Most of us have a love-hate… Read more »
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Leave Your Clutter on Park Benches
If you are a book lover, you will really like this idea. Take books you no longer want that are cluttering up your shelves, register them on BookCrossing.com, and leave them around in public places for other people to take. That’s right, just leave your books on park benches, in hotels, in coffee shops…! That’s… Read more »
Ode to Binder Clips
One day about five years ago I was trying to solve a big problem for a client: how to label a very large quantity of stackable wire cube compartments filled with papers. You could not stick a label tape to them, because they were made of thin wire. You could not write on them either…. Read more »
Vote for Clutter Diet- Help Us Win!
Readers, will you please take about 30 seconds RIGHT NOW to go vote for ClutterDiet.com at the NAPO-LA Chapter Website? They are taking votes for "Best Organizing Website or Blog" as part of their annual awards banquet at the Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard, Bel Air, California, on February 1, 2008. You can vote until December… Read more »
KTBC-FOX News: How to Handle Lead Toy Recalls
November 22, 2007 “7 On Your Side” reporter Chris Coffey (FOX-7 Austin) features Lorie’s tips on handling lead recalls you may find when organizing your toys, as part of his investigation into the handling of lead-tainted toys in charities and stores. (video not available online) Need help getting organized? Here are 3 ways we can… Read more »
Get Organized for a Relaxing Fall Getaway
For my USA readers who are getting ready to travel this week for Thanksgiving, I thought you might enjoy an article I wrote for Lifetime Television called "Organize for a Relaxing Fall Getaway." It was not specifically written for Thanksgiving travel, but the concepts certainly apply… One thing for sure–if you are flying, get there… Read more »
Press Release: Cold and Flu Season is Approaching: The Clutter Diet® Recommends Organizing the Medicine Cabinet Right Now
November 13, 2007 With cold and flu season approaching, it’s time for Americans to organize their medicine cabinets, suggests Certified Professional Organizer® Lorie Marrero, founder of The Clutter Diet®. “Clutter and disorganization in other parts of our lives can be daunting, but clutter and disorganization in our medicine cabinet can be dangerous,” says Marrero. “As… Read more »
7 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Recycle
The Today Show this week featured Chip Giller and Katherine Wroth of Grist.org talking about things you may not realize you can recycle. When we are doing organizing projects like garages and closets we run into this kind of stuff all the time, and you probably do too in your own home. Here are the… Read more »
Do You Have an Emergency Twenty?
I just got rescued by my Emergency Twenty last week. I keep a little cheap-o plastic business card holder in my car with a few extra business cards and one cute little hidden twenty dollar bill. I thought you might like to have an Emergency Twenty yourself!It allowed me to get out of a parking… Read more »
Tips on Taming Paper Clutter
This Sunday the Austin American-Statesman’s Life Guide column, by Sarah Lindner, featured some of my tips on managing paper. Here are some snips from the article: What makes paper so hard to deal with? "Every piece of paper represents a decision that hasn’t been made yet," she says. "And so when people see that large… Read more »
