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Organization Goes Deeper than You Think

I am almost through reading Messie No More but cannot wait to comment on this interesting look into what keeps us from being organized. I picked this book up in order to help clients, but find that parts of it hit home ( like the chapters on how fatigue and depression directly affect order in […]

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Why Things Don’t Stay Organized - Revisited

I’ve been thinking about this since I posted the two-part ’series’.  It seems like I cannot let go of this so I must add another post. 
Things don’t stay organized because I do not live alone. 
Well, I for one know that things would not stay organized even if I DID live alone.  But the addition of one […]

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High Five Baby!

Here is my top five list for organizing baby/kids clothes:
1) Buy hanging dividers that have the months on them but use a sticker/label (or write with sharpie) to add the weight range on it so you can hang all the various brands in the same section.  I find that there are some slight differences from brand to brand […]

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Organizing Coupons

In response to a post on Organizing Junkie.
In the eternal quest to keep coupons organized I wanted to put this out there. 
The CoupOdex. 
Now I must say that this will not work with a child sitting in the seat of the shopping cart - or at least my child! I have not used mine since having […]

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What’s Your Organizing Obstacle?

There is a great challenge going on through the HGTV website.  I took the quiz in Step One and was NOT surprised that I am a perfectionist.  What they do not know is that I am a recovering perfectionist.  Still the ‘disease’ is always lurking.  And the quiz is correct in that perfectionism is one […]

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