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…]
Guest Blog: Spring Cleaning, Garage Edition!
When I think of spring, I think of fresh blossoms, clean air, and cheerful faces. It’s a time where life begins to emerge again from the dark, winter shelters. It’s a time to start new things, go outside, and prepare for the fun summer activities planned ahead. And with the start of spring, what better [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…]
Room-By-Room Organizing Challenge | Month 1: The Bathroom
We’re starting this organizing challenge in the bathroom for one REALLY GREAT reason: it’s much easier to organize in the bathroom than any other room in the house. That’s because we aren’t as emotionally connected to items there. Because bathroom supplies are often cheap, beautifully packaged and placed enticingly close to the checkout lines *ahem, [Read more…]
Portland Events: Bizwoman Mentoring Monday
I’m so looking forward to participating as a mentor yet again in this year’s Bizwoman Mentoring Monday event, held by the Portland Business Journal! The journal will be hosting the event at the Nines Hotel in Portland, along with forty-two other publications and locations across the US. This gathering always has a great energy as women come [Read more…]
Let’s Talk About Last Year’s Resolution
For many, the holidays are a special time to connect with family, take stock in what really matters to you, and think about our goals for the following year. Which brings me to the topic at large: What happened to last year’s resolution? Whether you actually did manage to go a whole year without drinking a [Read more…]
Field Trip: Tiny House Organizing FTW!
As professional organizers, we love the concept of tiny homes; the minimalist lifestyle that accompanies them is a big draw. When people make the choice to live in a tiny home, they must whittle their belongings down to only the strictly necessary. But you do not necessarily have to convert to minimalism to have or [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…]
FREE National Drug Take-Back Event: October 28, 2017
National Prescription Drug Take-Back Event Date: Saturday, October 28th, 2017 Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Locations: For participating locations nationwide, click here. For participating Portland area locations, refer to the list below. Do you have unused and unwanted drugs in your medicine cabinet? Multiple Police Departments across the country are partnering up with the [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…]
Free Workshop: Kitchen and Pantry Organizing at Storables
Organizers Northwest is proud to be teaming up with Storables in Portland to bring you an extra special kitchen organizing workshop. The kitchen is probably the most popular room in your house, and also the hardest to keep clean and clutter free! Whether you are frustrated by disorganized Tupperware, lack of drawer space or aren’t sure [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…]
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