A recent client of mine had a laundry dilemma. Like the blob, it was slowly creeping into places it shouldn’t. Here’s how it started. One day, soon after moving in, she began folding laundry on the bedroom floor. The large expanse of floor space and proximity to the laundry room gave the master bedroom a [Read more…]
Free Presentation: Downsize to the Right Size
Let’s face it: downsizing can feel scary and overwhelming. One hurtle loops into another until the whole project feels impossible. As professional organizers, a big part of our work is to help clients to work through this transitionary time, ultimately finding peace and a simpler life through the omission of clutter holding them back. Next [Read more…]
Room-By-Room Organizing Challenge | Month 7: Your Book Collection
Ok, fine. True, books do not technically constitute a room. At least not for everyone. But books do hold such a special place in so many hearts, we felt the implication was justified. And also…who doesn’t secretly dream of a home library? For book lovers, letting go can be much harder than anything else in the [Read more…]
Room-by-Room Organizing Challenge | Month 6: The Home Office
This month we are excited to work in a room that is near and dear to our hearts: the home office! We use a process called 5S when we work in any office. 5S is an organizing method that allows you to maintain order and eliminate waste in the workplace by reviewing office items and [Read more…]
Room-By-Room Organizing Challenge | Month 5: The Kid’s Room
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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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