Toss Your Towels: Ten Minute Toss Challenge

Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing unused towels from your linen closet. Do you avoid using some of your towels because you don’t like the color or pattern? Toss!  Does your collection of towels meet your family’s needs?  Toss what you don’t need!  Embrace today’s challenge. Ready, set,… Read more

Organizing Traveling Paper: Tools of the Trade

Maybe you know this feeling… Your heart is racing, your palms are sweaty and you’re looking frantically for that one piece of paper that you need RIGHT NOW!  Being able to find what you need when you need it without raising your stress-level is the primary goal of getting organized.  As organizers we use and… Read more

Toss Your Downloaded Files: Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge

Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes sorting and tossing the contents of your Downloads folder on your computer.  Most operating systems, Windows and iOS, automatically placed downloaded items like email attachments, .pdfs and anything else you download off the Internet into a folder commonly titled Downloads.  You can find your Downloads file… Read more

Strategically Use Your Backpack: Organize for School Success

Pre-school through grad school, students have things to transport between home and the classroom.  Many students rely on backpacks throughout their education to contain and transport their things.  Too often backpacks become cluttered and finding things in the backpack becomes difficult. Lessen your stress and your load with these tips for making the most out of your backpack. Buy… Read more

Here’s How to Declutter Your Digital Documents

Digital stuff can build up just like real stuff to create clutter.  While it may be easier to ignore the cluttered build-up of digital stuff because you can’t see it and you don’t have to push it aside or walk over it to get to work, like tangible clutter it has negative consequences to you… Read more

Adopt Organized Systems for Note-Taking to Learn Faster

The purpose of taking notes is to remember information.  For some, it is simply the act of taking the notes that commits things to memory.  For others, the value of taking notes resides in being able to reference the notes later.  Most people benefit from both the experience of note-taking as well as the ability to reference… Read more

Toss Inherited Items: Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge

Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes tossing inherited items from your home. Ten minutes is enough time to sort through items that have been left to you over the years that you feel obligated to keep. If keeping and storing these things is causing you stress, that was probably… Read more

Love Post-Its? Get Them Better Organized with Evernote

Are you a fan of the sticky note?  While good for many things, they are dangerous for collecting tasks, to-dos and important information.  Sticky notes don’t stay sticky forever or get stuck where you didn’t intend or can pile up on walls, desktops, calendars and steering wheels making them hard to find.  Here is a… Read more

Toss Unused Children’s Books: Tuesday Ten Minute Toss

Time for the Tuesday Ten Minute Toss Challenge! RIGHT NOW spend 10 minutes decluttering a collection of children’s books.  Take on a shelf or a small bookcase.  Pull out books that your child has outgrown or books that are too damaged to enjoy anymore.  Then do something useful with the books you no longer need.  Here… Read more

Ways to Earn Money by Purging Your Closet

Purging a clothes closet is a great way to get organized, free up space for new items, and even make a little bit of money! Donating to charity is great, but if you have brand name clothing in great condition, a tiny bit of effort can pay off. Literately. There’s always eBay and Craigslist….but here are… Read more

Tools of the Trade: Drawer Dividers

A junk drawer doesn’t have to be a junk pile.  Similarly a desk drawer doesn’t have to be a distraction as you stop work to find what you need.  Drawer dividers turn drawers into storage spaces that support you in getting things done by keeping items sorted, in view and easy to store when not… Read more

Take a Zone Approach to Get Your Workspace Organized

Is your work space organized in a way that hinders or contributes to your productivity?  Consider the cost to your productivity when you can’t find what you need or don’t have enough clear space on which to work.  Maybe you can’t get started with a task because you’ve lost things on your desk.  Perhaps you… Read more