Archive for 2009
Focus On Your Gain Plan
In: Clutter Control
30 Nov 2009For those of us who need to donate items to the needy because we have too much stuff and not enough space, it’s not uncommon to feel like we are making a sacrifice, especially if we “paid good money” for those items. Perhaps that sacrifice feels virtuous, like eating your vegetables, but if it’s making [...]
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- Tags: charity, donate, gain plan, multi-purpose
Kitchen Organizing
In: Systems
24 Nov 2009Thanksgiving can be a time when you really wish you were more organized in the kitchen. You can find 30 salad plates that nobody uses, but where’s that gravy boat? There is more built-in storage in the kitchen than in any room in the house. This should be helpful, but all too often it causes more problems than it [...]
Containers Last
In: Systems
10 Nov 2009To choose organizing systems that are actually going to keep you organized, you must first decide on the QUANTITY of items you’re going to keep. This approach makes me a bit of a spoil-sport with my new clients. They’re excited about the prospect of organizing and it starts with the question: ”Ooh, what containers do [...]
Organizing Children’s Artwork
In: Systems
4 Nov 2009A child’s creativity is an exciting thing to watch, so it seems a crime to get rid of any of his or her creations. The trouble is, these creations can accumulate, and in very awkward ways. So what do you do? Here are five tips. 1. Circulation prevents accumulation. My answer to all organizing challenges is a simple process [...]
About Matt Baier Organizing
Professional Organizer Matt Baier and his team declutter and organize homes and offices in Stamford, New Canaan, Greenwich, Westport, Darien, Norwalk, Fairfield, Westchester County, and New York City.
Topics
- Clutter Control (49)
- Floor Planning (5)
- Paper Management (25)
- Systems (65)
- Closet (10)
- Time Management (16)
- Uncategorized (1)
- Compelements
- To File Is To Find
- The Weekly Round Up
- My Case Against Paper Clips
- What’s Making Your Tasks So Difficult
- What A Waste?
- How Dedicated Zones Work
- Making Multi-purpose Work
- “We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat!”
- The Right Sort
- Lisa Corrado: Matt, you are so right when you say many of what we consider tasks are actually projects. And I real [...]
- Steven: Tasks are simple. If you try to finish the tasks then think that you have completed the project. You [...]
- Elaine Hoffmann: I want to thank you and your amazing team for the great work you have done organizing my basement,at [...]
- Linda Kuppersmith: What a brilliant concept. As a business owner that wears several hats (Sales, marketing, accounting [...]
- Matt: Karen, sorry it's taken me so long to get back to your inquiry. I have used several different smart [...]