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The Urge to Purge Your Stuff
This is Spring Clean up week in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It happens once a year. The city will remove clutter you put on your curb for no additional fees. I get a kick out of Spring Clean Up Week because there are some very enterprising individuals collecting useful items from the things others are [...]
Living in Harmony with Your Stuff
We all have stuff we need, stuff we like, and stuff we’d rather get rid of. We have stuff from family, stuff from friends, and stuff we’ve purchased ourselves. How do you make a plan to live in harmony with your stuff? It starts with a question… How much space do you want to [...]
How Do You Start Organizing a Messy Office?
Have you ever been really busy working on a project, get it completed and then notice how messy your workspace became? Sometimes creativity is like a thunderstorm. You have things all over the place and you’re flowing from one thing to another without really seeing that you’re the eye of the storm and leaving a [...]
Springtime Tasks: Sorting Seasonal Clothing
When Springtime finally rolls around, it can be a fun task to sort through winter clothing. It’s great to celebrate the ending of another winter by putting away clothing that won’t be needed for many months. Here are a few tips to give your closets a spring cleaning. Check the pockets of all your winter [...]
Springtime Tasks: Sorting Toys
As winter comes to an end, mid-March is a good time to sort through toys. Children play with some toys more than others. Some toys are well-loved. Some toys are momentary distractions. Sorting through toys as winter ends could become an early Spring habit. Decide how much space you’ll use to store toys. Once you’ve [...]
Happy Leap Day!
According to TimeandDate.com: “Leap Day is February 29, which is an extra (intercalary) day added during a Leap Year, making the year 366 days long – and not 365 days, like a common (normal) year. Nearly every 4 years is a Leap Year in our modern Gregorian calendar.” February 29, 2012 finds me suffering from [...]
How to Organize Your Desk: Ask Yourself Why
If you’ve used your current desk for more than a year, there are probably things you’ve acquired and slipped into a desk drawer. You’ve probably told yourself a few times that you’d decide later where you’d put that item. Sometime you open a drawer and see something and you can’t remember where it came from. [...]
Organizing Your Desk: What to Do with Pens
Take a few moments and look at your desk. How many pens are scattered across the surface and in different drawers? Where do you keep them when they aren’t in use? Do you have pens you don’t like taking up valuable space? It’s time for a pen revolution. Check the variety of pens on and [...]
Get the Coupons off your Desk
If you do any online shopping, you’re going to get coupons. Are they a good thing, or are they clutter? Well, that depends on whether or not you have plans to shop at that particular store. If you plan to shop, then the coupon is a valuable commodity. But what if you aren’t sure? Do [...]
Taking Stock of 2011
During the last week of December, I like to look back at the whole year and determine what habits I acquired during this year that helped to make my life run more smoothly. Here are a few things that worked well: Taking an inventory of all the food in house before going to the grocery [...]