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…]
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…]
FREE Shred Event: August 12 2017
Bring old credit card statements, financial statements, pre-approved credit card offers, old IRS tax forms, bank checks, household bills, and other documents that may contain sensitive information to this FREE Shred Event in Beaverton on August 12, 2017
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…]
How to Stay Organized When you Work from Home
According to Global Workplace Analytics, 3.7 million people work remotely at least half of the time today in the US. While this is good news for the planet, traffic congestion and introverts across America, working from home can be challenging when it comes to productivity and organization. As we all know, the ability to be [Read more…]
FREE Shred Event: June 10 2017
Beaverton FREE Shred Event Date: Saturday, June 10th, 2017 Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Location: Sunset Presbyterian Church – 14986 NW Cornell Rd. Portland Oregon 97229 It’s that time of year again! Clean out your old papers and bring them to the Document Shredding Clinic sponsored by the Beaverton Police Department. There is a [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…]
2 FREE Shred/Recycling Events: April 22, 2017
Beaverton Location – Shred Event Sponsored by the Beaverton Police Department Date: Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Location: Sunset Presbyterian Church – 14986 NW Cornell Rd. Portland, Oregon 97229 This is on a first-come, first-served basis for personal documents and you may bring up to three banker’s boxes of papers. [Read more…]
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