How To Get The Male Gender To Organize
I received a question on my MS. Simplicity Facebook page asking for help on how to organize husbands and sons. As a married mother of three boys and being surrounded by them for the last twenty plus years I was surprised by this question. I was a messy teen girl, just ask my mom as [...]
Flood Of Papers
The number one issue that I hear from clients is what to do with all that paper? They have stacks and stacks and sometimes boxes of it and they simply are paralyzed with fear and don’t know what to do with it. So the paper pile just keeps growing and growing and growing. I think the blame [...]
The Voice In Your Head
We finished our Spring Fling Challenge this week and it was a great success. For 21 days I gave tips on my MS. Simplicity Facebook page for little challenges. Many items were flung and many homes were organized along the way. Sometimes we need that little voice in our head telling you to just get rid [...]
Junk That Junk Drawer
Today’s challenge has to do with those elusive junk drawers. We all have them, some may have more than others. They are the drawer where things get thrown when you don’t know where something goes. But what if you took the time to empty those drawers out and find a place for everything? The biggest [...]
Organize Your Socks And Underwear
I realize that not everyone has an organized sock and underwear drawer. I realize that most people just throw them in a drawer and call it good. Sometimes not even matching the pairs of socks….the horror of it!. So a couple of years ago I organized one such drawer….let’s call these clients “Roy” and “Michelle”. [...]
Spring Flinging
If you live in the upper portion of the county you are probably experiencing a phenomena that we like to call Spring Cleaning. This is not something that is experienced all over the country. You find Spring Cleaning fever to be centralized in locations that have long, cold winters. It lasts for a few weeks [...]
Create Systems That Work For You And Not Against You
As busy people we are always trying to find more time in our day. With my clients that is my job is to help find those hidden pockets of time that they didn’t know existed before. But when creating systems that work for my client, I must also think of the habits and ages of [...]
Paper Clutter Be Gone!
Photo: see end of article whose paper clutter this is Are you like the majority of people who have listed organizing at the top of your resolutions list, right behind being healthier? At the very top of that organizing wish list are the dreaded papers. We get papers in the mail, we get papers from [...]
Tis the Season for Stress
We promise ourselves year after year that we will enjoy the next holiday season…or that we won’t spend as much….or that we will make time for exercise….or we won’t eat as much….or we will get more things done. But we quickly get caught up in the rush of the season and soon it is the [...]
I’m Late, I’m Late, For A Very Important Date!
Are you one of those people who is late or early for appointments? I consider myself on time or early for most but every once in a while I am late. I have friends who are chronically late. It doesn’t matter what it is for, they are always late. The theory is that they are [...]
