Have you ever popped into The Container Store or Target, with the simple intention to purchase the perfect organizing container for your project of the day? Did you come out smiling, or did you leave with a dejected, grumpy face because of product overwhelm? If you’re in the overwhelm category, you are not alone. The READ MORE
Would Becoming a Professional Organizer Make You Deliriously Happy?
With the new year quickly approaching, you may be thinking of ways to make 2014 the best ever. Is a career change in your future? The first step is to figure out what you truly love to do (where is your passion?), what you’re good at (what comes naturally?), and how you want to spend READ MORE
Simple Holiday Decorating Tips
In the coming days or weeks, you’ll be getting your home spiffed up for the holiday season. Whether you deck out the entire house — themed Christmas trees, Santa dishes, sparkling candles, and garland galore — or you simply place a wreath on the front door, it’s fun to see your home in a new READ MORE
Lego Organizing Ideas
Loads of Legos got you down? Looking for Lego organizing ideas? Not to fret! I just discovered a neat organizing tool called Swoop Bags that mommies everywhere are going to love. These bags were developed by a mom who needed a quick solution for toy clean-up and storage. The large Swoop Bags not only READ MORE
Cool Organizing Products
Organizing = excitement! Really! For those of you who think the process of getting organized is boring, you need to check out some of the truly innovative, trendy, and, well, even weird organizing tools available to make your mess a success. For example, instead of letting your office supplies wander across your desk unsupervised, how READ MORE
Organized Acts of Kindness
Every time I see an article in the paper or hear a story about a random act of kindness, my ears perk up. They are such beautiful contrasts to the abundance of depressing and disappointing news stories we see every day. The idea that there are people out there who are trying to bring a READ MORE
Student Organizing Tips For Your Unique Kid
I recently had the opportunity to peek inside my 6th grader’s locker. Holy disaster! He agreed to take everything home and let me evaluate the situation. Once home, I found six notebooks that had been barely used, with back covers torn in half or completely off, spiral binding in tatters. The folders were being used READ MORE
Happy Organized Halloween!
Finally, the day my kids have been anticipating for weeks — Halloween is here! Are your kids in your life excited as well? I’m always trying to pull a little organizing into everything I do, so how can I relate trick or treating to organizing? Well, this is a great opportunity to teach basic sorting READ MORE
Home Office Makeover
This professional organizer needed a home office makeover, so I finally carved out some time to work on it this month. Both organizing and beautifying were in order! I started gathering ideas months ago, pulling photos from magazines and pinning them to my “inspiration board.” I settled on the Expedit shelving system from Ikea, which READ MORE
Professional Organizing as a Career
People always ask me how I got started as a professional organizer. I like to think it was my calling. I’ve got the entrepreneurial spirit of my grandpa, who was the owner of many, many businesses over the years. (One of which was a carnival rides and treats operation!) But honestly, it wasn’t that difficult READ MORE