5 Tips for How to Work From Home and Not Suck at it
Around the country, the world, even, people are being asked or told to work from home due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. While working from home might sound attractive on the surface, for some people, it might be a lot harder than you think to make it work. I...
Top 10 Habits to Leave Behind in the ’10s Decade
It’s a New Year, and a New Decade. (Yes, I know there are two schools of thought on whether or not the decade ends now or next year. I’m picking “now”.) There’s so much to look forward to in our future, but our “2020 Vision”...
What a Christmas Tree Skirt Taught Me About Questioning Tradition
Shortly after Thanksgiving, ideally that weekend, I like to have Christmas ready to go. HandyBoy (my husband) and I get the lights on the house, especially if the weather is more than 50 degrees here in Boston, since we can’t count on another one of those coming...
Are You Ready for the 7th Annual Clever Girl Organizing Challenge?
Because After The Season of Giving & Receiving Comes The Season of Decluttering… Thanksgiving launches this crazy time of year, doesn’t it? Holidays, shopping, hustle and bustle, parties, errands, cooking and baking, racing the clock, searching for the...
10 things I hope you get out of Marie Kondo’s “Tidying Up” (and no, “spark joy” isn’t one of them)
Marie Kondo has a new TV show that launched on Netflix on January 1. Eight episodes of the messages of her best-selling book brought to life with couples and families looking to shed their clutter and lead a different life in their home. It’s exciting to have a...
7 Steps take Your Resolution STICK This Year
We all tend to at least think for a moment this time of year about a New Years Resolution. They tend to be either STOPPING habits or STARTING habits that feels like it will make a positive change in our lives. Sometimes, we talk about them in terms of the end goal,...
Announcing the 2019 Clever Girl Organizing Challenge!
It’s that time of year when everyone else is thinking of the holidays, and *I’m* thinking about how to help people follow through on next year’s New Years Resolutions! If you’ve been following Clever Girl for a while, you probably already know...
10 Tips to Make Sending Holiday Cards a Snap!
Sending out holiday cards this year? If you haven’t started thinking about all that yet, it’s time to get a plan together. I know I am! How about a Ten Tips to make this year’s process a little easier? 1. Get your list done early! This will...
Productivity Under Pressure: When Time is Ticking Away, You Can Still Be Successful!
When Autumn arrives, it comes with what I always feel is a shift in how the world looks and feels. Leaves start to turn and then fall, like sands in an hourglass. In many ways, it starts to feel like the “Countdown Season” to me. Countdown to what? Maybe...
Five Years: A Reflection of the Clever Girl Journey (so far!)
May 1, 2013, I launched Clever Girl Organizing. It is a little bit of an arbitrary date, as anyone who has ever started their own business will attest to. Launching a business has many steps before you leap. It wasn’t when I joined NAPO (The National Association...
How to (Finally) Conquer That Room You Hate and Love it Again
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a “before and after” on an organizing project. The story around this one applies so broadly to many of my clients, and many people who just struggle with their space, I had to! I wanted to share this story of...Kathy Vines
Certified Professional Organizer,®
Productivity Consultant
Based in Melrose, MA.
Clever Girl Organizing® works with clients in their homes or offices to transform their space and systems, minimize stress, and maximize efficiency, productivity, and serenity! Her superpower is helping people untangle their relationship to their stuff!
