This blog is month 5 in a 12 month organizing series. To sign up to receive this series, use the right hand sidebar form to join the mailing list. Of all the rooms in the house, kid’s rooms seem to receive the most wear and tear. And that’s a good thing; it means your [Read more…]
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Room-by-Room Organizing Challenge | Month 4: The Living Room
This blog is month 4 in a 12 month organizing series. To sign up to receive this series, add your name to the “Join Our Blog” form on the right. This month, we dive into the living room! Since this area is primarily used for relaxing at the end of a long day, it can [Read more…]
Room-by-Room Organizing Challenge | Month 3: The Pantry
In some homes, the pantry is large and luxurious – a room you can walk into. For others, it may be limited to a single kitchen cupboard. (Team cupboard over here, folks.) Regardless of its size, the pantry is just about the most used area in a home, alongside its cool counterpart, the fridge. That’s [Read more…]
Room-by-Room Organizing Challenge | Month 2: The Linen Closet
Welcome to month two of the Room-By-Room Organizing Challenge! The goal of this series is to provide a breakdown of the organizing process required to tackle a single room in the house, one month and one room at a time. Our hope is that it will give our readers the inspiration to get started, plus [Read more…]
Help Your Student Organize Their School Binder
Do you have a middle school age student who struggles with a disorganized school binder? This is a common challenge for middle schoolers as they face the new challenge of multiple classes, homework assignments and school projects. Many students need to be taught the skills of planning, time-management and organization, with specific focus on paper [Read more…]
Book Review: The Little Book of Tidying
When a professional organizer gets the chance to write a review for a book with the word “tidying” in the title, they jump at the opportunity. At 94 pages, The Little Book of Tidying by Beth Penn is indeed little – but packed with wisdom, tips, and the cutest illustrations you’ve ever seen. The now famous [Read more…]
Get the Organized Garage You Always Wanted
For many homeowners, the garage is often the most disorganized “room” in the house. This has been true for every one of our organizing clients, and is likely true for many others who don’t need organizing services. No matter how organized you are in other areas, the garage just tends to be an easy dumping [Read more…]
How to Create an Organized Homework Station
As promised in our last blog, 6 Habits to Help Your Child Transition from School to Home, this week we are featuring a special how-to blog, on creating an organized homework station for your student. The location of this homework station is important, as you want it to be a central and neutral space that [Read more…]
6 Habits to Help Your Child Transition from School to Home
If you are the parent of school-aged children, then the following conversations (often shouted from another room) will sound familiar to you: “Please put your backpack away honey!” “In a minute mom…” or… “Time to start your homework!” “Aww….five more minutes dad!” Many kids struggle with the transition from school to home. The temptation to [Read more…]
4 Quick Organizing Projects When You’re Stuck Indoors
As most of our followers know, we are located in Portland Oregon. Last week, Portland experienced soaring temperatures above 100 degrees for consecutive days. As a result, many of us have been stuck indoors. One great activity to do during extreme weather events is to get some organizing done. As pro organizers, we are sort of [Read more…]
How to Move Like a Pro Organizer
Recently, we’ve been flooded with requests for organizing services to help with the transition of moving to a new home. And we understand why: there is so much to think about – from keeping new home documents organized to decluttering and downsizing your current home in preparation for the big day. After some deliberation, we [Read more…]
How to Create a Pro Organizer Moving Binder
There are a few certainties in life: death, taxes, and…moving. According to the US Census Bureau, the average American moves 12 times during his or her lifetime! That’s a lot of bubble wrap. Whether you are moving across the hall (I’ve actually done this, and it was surprisingly hard) or across the country, there are [Read more…]
Mother’s Day Ideas that Don’t Cause Clutter
This year, in honor of all of the wonderful mothers (and fathers!) out there, we asked our team of professional organizers at Organizers Northwest to weigh in on their favorite mother’s day gifts to give and receive. The caveat? They have to be items that don’t cause clutter! Here are our favorites: A Fun Event “I [Read more…]
How to Be More Organized through Task Initiation
The skills of planning, time management and organization are all controlled by our executive functions, located in the frontal lobe of the brain. That area of the brain does not finish developing until as late as early adulthood, and those skills can always be improved upon! Two such executive function skills critical to being organized [Read more…]
How to Create a Professional Organizer Toolkit
As professional organizers, we are often asked questions about our professional tips and techniques. I’ve had several clients ask me recently about my organizing toolkit. What are the items we use most on the job? What can’t we live without? So in the spirit of providing organizing solutions and answers, I thought it would be [Read more…]
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