It’s Week 10. TEN!!! Can you believe it? What a tremendous effort you are making to reclaim your home and your life, one...
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Week 9 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: People in Our Lives
It’s Week 9 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge, and so we begin the second half of this 16-week adventure to help you...
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Are Unfinished Projects Every Where You Look?
Projects. Projects can be a big enemy in our efforts to get organized. What’s a project? This is how I typically hear a...
READ MOREThink You Could Never Learn to Fold a Fitted Sheet? Think Again!
Ever thought that you’d just NEVER get your folded sheets to look folded and neat, instead of taking over your linen...
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Week 8 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: All the Linens!
Welcome to Week 8! When this week is done, we are HALF OVER with this fantastic challenge, which I have heard from so many of...
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Organized vs Tidy. They’re Not the Same Thing.
I want to talk today about a simple concept: I want to pose that there is a difference between being ORGANIZED and being TIDY. ...
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Week 7 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: Heading Into the Bathroom
Six weeks down, and ten weeks ahead, we’re well into reclaiming our homes and our lives, one space at a time! We’ve...
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Fighting the “I Might Need It Some Day” Force
I know these words have crossed your mind, and maybe your lips, when you’ve been going through the piles, the stacks,...
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Week 6 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge, All the Clothes, part 3
It’s Week 6! We’re still in the area of our wardrobes, but we’re moving past the primary parts — the...
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Facing Sentimental Items While Trying to Get Organized
Sentimental keepsakes, mementos, and memorabilia. It’s one of the toughest categories that I go through with clients, and...
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Week 5 of the 2016 Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: All the Clothes, Week 2
It’s Week 5. First, a shout out: You’re more than 25% done with The Challenge! Hooray! High Fives for Everyone!...
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Don’t Let Perfection Lead to Failure
One of the things I find that gets in the way of people’s success, or even progress, when it comes to getting organized,...
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Week 4 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge, All the Clothes, Week 1
We’re spending the next 3 weeks focusing on your wardrobe and accessories. But, we can’t really focus on that...
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Three Ways To Get Your Mail Under Control
You get mail. Maybe a lot of mail, maybe not. It comes 6 days a week. It can become, if left neglected, a pile, a monster....
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Week 3 of the Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: In the Kitchen, part 3
It’s our third week in this stretch of our 16 week challenge, and we’re going to wrap up the heavy work in the...
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Gifts and Guilt: How to Let Go of Both
Gift Guilt. The struggle is real. Whenever you’re going through items to declutter, or even if you’re just dealing...
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Week 2 of the 2016 Organizing Challenge: In the Kitchen, part 2
It’s Week 2 of the 2016 Clever Girl Organizing Challenge! If you haven’t read the intro yet, you can glance at it...
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Focus and Finish: The Keys to Completing Organizing Projects
If you’ve joined us for Week 1’s assignment — working on your pantry and refrigerator and tupperware –...
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Week 1 of the 2016 Organizing Challenge: In the Kitchen, part 1
Welcome to the 2016 Clever Girl Organizing Challenge! If you haven’t read the intro yet, you can glance at it here. You...
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2016 Clever Girl Organizing Challenge: 16 Weeks, and an exciting change for this year!
Happy New Year and Welcome to 2016! I hope your holiday season was joyous and healthy, and you’re all set to take on 2016...
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When a Scare Tests Your Plan
I had a bit of a scare today (everything is fine). But I know that the best scares are the ones that turn out to be nothing...
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Top 10 Ways To Get Help This Holiday Season
Thanksgiving is around the corner, and Hanukkah and Christmas are right after it. You don’t need to do it ALL. You...
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Why *and How* to Say Yes to Less This Holiday Season
As I write this, the holidays are just around the corner. I can hear it in the air… and it’s not all good. Do any...
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Time Management and The Interrupting Cow: Manage Interruptions In the Office or at Home
“Knock Knock!” “Who’s There?” “The Interrupting Cow.” “The...
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