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Posts Tagged: “home organization”

This Week’s Clutter Video Tip: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Each week we are posting a one-minute-ish quick video tip on something useful and practical that you can apply right away! Here is our sixth video about The great debate over food storage containers – lid on or off? (Click here to watch on YouTube if you can’t see the embedded player.) Transcript: Hey, it’s… Read more »

Do You Have a “Destination Station” in Your Home?

Where do you enter and exit your home most often? That door should be near to what we call a "Destination Station." It's a place for your purse, your briefcase, your keys, your chargers, your sunglasses, and kids' backpacks and gear– right where you need it most. I want to show off another one of… Read more »

This Week’s Clutter Video Tip: Mean, Green Printing Machine

Each week we are posting a one-minute-ish quick video tip on something useful and practical that you can apply right away! Here is our fifth video about being more productive and efficient with your printer. (Click here to watch on YouTube if you can’t see the embedded player.) Transcript: Hi, I’m Lorie Marrero and today’s… Read more »

This Week’s Clutter Video Tip: More Hidden Storage- Look Up!

Each week we are posting a one-minute-ish quick video tip on something useful and practical that you can apply right away! Here is our fourth video about finding more hidden storage. (Click here to watch on YouTube if you can’t see the embedded player.) Transcript: Hey, it’s Lorie Marrero, and today’s Clutter Video Tip is… Read more »

But I Don’t Wanna! 5 Reasons Why You Should Make Your Bed

We had our monthly member "freestyle" Q&A webinar last Tuesday night, when our members can send in photos and questions and get live consultations (no additional cost, included in our membership program). Always such a blast! One member asked me this week, "Why should I make my bed every morning?"  Here are 4 good reasons… Read more »

Sorry, That’s Just My Policy

I'm sure you've been frustrated before by some store clerk who stood behind a "policy," not giving you what you wanted… something like a 14-day return policy or a receipt-required policy. Your teachers in school probably had a policy for make-up work when you missed class, and your employer has lots of policies about vacation… Read more »

Doing = Having: Why Being Busy Can Mean More Clutter

I was just telling a reporter that many of the people we serve in our Clutter Diet online program are women who are doing too much. They are working full- or part-time outside the home, volunteering at school or at church (or both), rearing children, sometimes homeschooling, caring for aging parents, running a small business… Read more »

7 Sticky Tips for Using Velcro in Organizing Projects

Here's another set of tips inspired by our recent Good Housekeeping clutter makeover contest winner's projects. (See before & afters and get an overview of the contest winner's bounty here…garage and home office) We use Velcro® quite a bit in our work as organizers, you'd be surprised! Here's how: Just like we did for our… Read more »

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