Something I really wanted when we moved recently was to find a house with a laundry room on the second floor that had plenty of space for processing laundry. I had transitioned the laundry room from the mudroom to the second floor master bathroom of our last home and loved that our clothing never left the second floor. It meant no more toting dirty clothes down the stairs and clean clothes up. In my mind it was … Read More
I’ve been doing quite a bit of virtual organizing these days. My best friend called recently and asked me for some advice on organizing her pantry. Instead of advice, I convinced her to join me on skype and we worked through the project together. We developed the plan for the space together and broke it into steps, which she implemented. The entire project took less than three hours, including her shopping time. Her only purchases: the awesome … Read More
It’s mid January and 1098s and 1099s are starting to arrive. If you’re expecting a refund, you’ll want to get those taxes filed as soon as you’ve collected all of your tax related documents, but do you know where everything is? Filing your taxes can be a snap if you have all of the necessary paperwork organized, and believe it or not, keeping your tax files under control is easy with just a few tools: an Iris … Read More
I recently took this picture of the unbelievable stacks of containers at Target. They were located right inside the entrance and people were snapping them up like their lives depended upon them. As a professional organizer I secretly hoped those individuals already knew what they planned to store in them and where the containers themselves were going to be stored. I sort of doubt it though, because so often I go into a client’s home and find stacks … Read More