On Day 14 of our Let’s Get Prepared! Challenge, we want to focus on those important items to keep in mind when...
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Let’s Get Prepared! Day 13 – First Aid Kits
On Day 13 of our Let’s Get Prepared! Challenge, we’re continuing our discussion of emergency kits by focusing on...
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Let’s Get Prepared! Day 12 – Build Your Emergency Kit
On Day 12 of our Let’s Get Prepared! Challenge, we’re entering Phase 3: Gather Your Preparations. Today, we start...
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Let’s Get Prepared! Day 9 – The Special Ones in Your Life
On Day 9 of our Let’s Get Prepared! Challenge, we’re going to spend some time talking about the special ones in our...
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Let’s Get Prepared! Day 8 – Document and Insure
On Day 8 of our Let’s Get Prepared! Challenge, we’re focusing on the administrative side of having a plan: Making...
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Let’s Get Prepared! Day 7 – Communication Plan
It’s Day 7 of our Let’s Get Prepared! Challenge, and we’re in Phase 2: “Create Your Plan”. Today,...
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Let’s Get Prepared! Day 6 – Create Your Plan
On Day 6 of our Challenge, we’re focusing on creating an Emergency Plan. Well, think of it as Emergency PlanS, with an...
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Let’s Get Prepared! Day 5 – Get and Stay Informed
It is Day 5 of our Let’s Get Prepared! Challenge, and we’re entering Phase 2: Create Your Plan. This week...
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Let’s Get Prepared! Day 2 – Assess Your Risk, Home Edition
In Day 2 of our Let’s Get Prepared! Challenge, we’re staying focused on assessing risk. While our first day in this...
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Let’s Get Prepared! Day 1 – Assess Your Risk
It’s Day One of our “Let’s Get Prepared!” Clever Girl Organizing Challenge. We’ll spend the next...
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Let’s Get Prepared! Clever Girl Organizing Challenge Starts September 1
Think for a moment: If your home were facing an imminent threat of flood, fire, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, blizzard, ice...
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Project 333: What I learned from Courtney Carver about my clothes, and about myself.
I recently had the opportunity to go see and hear Courtney Carver, of Be More With Less. Courtney is the creator of the...
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What Happens When a Professional Organizer Gets Upset, and Finds She Has Much to Say?
What I am sharing today is less of a blog post, and more of a personal essay. It’s personal, passionate and, well, long. (If you...
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Letting Go is Hard, Even When You Know It’s Right.
I’m in my mid-40’s. I don’t have children. I say these things to give you context on the story I’m about...
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A Professional Organizer’s Film Review: Minimalism: A Documentary About Important Things
This week, I got to attend a premiere of the new documentary, “Minimalism: A Documentary About Important Things.”...
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2016 Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: All 16 Weeks, Wrapped Up!
Did you participate in the 2016 Clever Girl Organizing Challenge this year? Did you start, but then wander away for a bit, and...
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Week 16 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: Managing Your Digital Life
If you can believe it, we are in our final week of this 16 Week Challenge to reclaim your home and reclaim your life! Whether...
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Week 15 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: Paper Management
We are in our last 2 weeks of this 16 week Challenge to reclaim your home and reclaim your life! And with Tax Day in the US this...
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Week 14 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: Hobbies, Sports and Fitness
We are in the FINAL 3 weeks of The Clever Girl Organizing Challenge for 2016! This particular week is the last one before we...
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Need Help? Is Virtual Organizing Right for You?
Many people who read my blog probably have a basic understanding of what a Professional Organizer does. We work with people, in...
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Week 13 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: Entertainment and Media
It’s Week 13 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge, and as we begin the last 4 weeks of The Challenge, we’re...
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Week 12 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: Electronics and Technology
Week 12! That’s right: At the end of this week, we’re 75% done with this challenge! I hope you’re sticking...
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Week 11 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: Decor and Decorations, yours AND the kids’!
It’s Week 11, and we’re starting the end of our Organizing Challenge — the next 6 weeks are going to be...
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Getting Organized When Couples Aren’t On the Same Page
People rarely come into a relationship together and discover they’re on the exact same page in terms of being organized,...
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