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Five Organizing Tips for Basement Storage
The best organizing tips for basement storage make sense when you understand it’s supporting role. This can be understood by revisiting a model called showroom/stockroom, which I’ve written about before. This is a conceptual model of storage, that makes your organizing systems more sustainable. Here’s a summary of how it works. In a showroom, the space is open, inviting, and …
Top 5 Organizing Tips For Spring Cleaning
I am actually going to list just ONE organizing tip for spring cleaning. Simply put, you can clean much easier in areas that you have decluttered first. That’s it, but what’s the best way to declutter for spring cleaning? Here are five tips. 1. Start with the garage When my first organizing tip is “start with the garage,” my client’s …
What Does Recycling and Organizing Have in Common?
Last Friday our NAPO-CT chapter had a visit from the nice people at SCRRRA, who taught us a LOT about recycling. I also realized how much recycling has to do with organizing. And yes, it’s more than just the sorting. The biggest revelation came from the list of things that can’t be recycled and WHY. For example, did you know …
How To Organize Your Garage Space
The answer to why your garage space isn’t working for you has everything to do with how you use your garage space.
Attic Storage Systems
Here are some unique attic elements to consider when creating sustainable attic storage systems.
Door-ganizing
Doorganizing means your organizing systems depends on recognizing doors and when to keep them open and when to keep them closed.
Open Space is Not Empty
We run into a lot of clients who seem to have fear of open space and I find it to be counterproductive to sustainable organizing systems.
Organizing Collectibles
Collectibles can take up a lot of space in your home, so here’s five useful tips to keep in mind when organizing them.
Organizing for Self Storage
Increasingly, people are finding self-storage to be a helpful way to manage their belongings either during a short-term transition, or as part of a more comprehensive process to create more living space at home. Either way, it helps to keep your storage unit organized.
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The One Organizing System Every Household Should Have
The Donation Depot is essential, not only as perhaps the most important organizing system in any home, but also as a perfect example of how an organizing system should work.
Organizing to Move: Moving Day
Moving is stressful, but doing it in an organized way, can relieve that stress. This starts by breaking the moving process down into the major stages. We’re now up to moving day.
Product Review: Monkey Bars
There is no better garage organizing system than Monkey Bars. Period. I’m not getting paid to say that. I just really, really love this product. Why? Let me count the ways.
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August Organizing Tip: Using a Table
I know what you’re thinking. You don’t need me to tell you how to use a table. That’s true, but if you are having difficulty staying organized, I want to offer a professional organizer’s perspective on tables, that will help. This starts with looking at a table as a tool, rather than a piece of furniture. In fact, I believe a clear work surface is your number one organizing tool.
July 2016, Better Connecticut, Car Organizing Easy Tips
On Monday’s broadcast of Better Connecticut, Matt shared car organizing tips with host Kara Sundlun.
Immediately following the segment, Scot Haney announced the winner of the NAPO-CT Garage Makeover Contest!
Organizing Your Car
As we get away on more road trips this summer, you may find yourself wanting to ensure an organized ride. Here are some tips for organizing your car in the trunk, the driver’s seat, and the back seat.