I didn’t write yesterday’s Day of Organizing and immediately felt like I was doing it wrong. We spent Christmas up in D.C. with my family and had a long car-trip home on Saturday. My hubby is sick with a wretched chest cold. I have a sore throat. I found out my mom had a fever […]
Organizing Videos (Day 27 of 31 Days of Organizing)
A few years ago, I was on a tear creating organizing videos. Some of them have been very popular, with upwards of 2,000 views. If you’re more of a visual learner, check out some of my best videos: Organizing your desk in 3 minutes Filing using only three bins Keeping track of receipts Using a […]
Being organized (Day 23 of 31 Days of Organizing)
I’ve been yammering on for the last 22 days about being organized and managing your time and becoming more productive. And I want to hit the pause button and ask you to NOT take my message to heart. What? That’s right…in a way, I don’t want you to listen to me expound upon the virtues […]
The gift of time (Day 17 of 31 Days of Organizing
Recently, I heard a great interview on NPR with Chris Rock (the straight-talking, tell-it-like-it-is comedian). He was pretty funny, even for the fairly serious NPR format. At least, he was funny until the interviewer brought up a comment he made about being in comedy for 30 years. The interviewer pondered, “At this point in his […]
Time to purge (Day 16 of 31 Days of Organizing)
This month I have talked to so many people who want to clear out their clutter. “It’s time to get rid of stuff,” they say. As my hubby and I are in the middle of our own very big purge (we’re downsizing again from 900 sq. ft. to becoming minimalists living in a tiny house), […]
Talk is cheap (Day 15 of 31 Days of Organizing)
I was reminded recently about a marketing study on laundry detergent where researchers discovered something amazing about people: feeling clean was more important to people than being clean. As long as their laundry detergent made their clothes look and feel clean, people were happy. They didn’t even care about scientific studies that showed one detergent […]