I may be a professional organizer, but most of the time my backyard looks like “Sanford and Son”.
Everyone has a room–a catch-all, an embarrassment. For me it’s our lack of garage and resulting junk-heaps of old lumber, paint cans, and debris in the backyard.
I was checking out this book with Ashley Stanfield, a colleague of mine, at our last NAPO meeting. (NAPO=National Association of Professional Organizers) We both thought it was great. So great that she took it home to put it to use in her own life. (more…)
No matter how much you eat out and no matter how many items you send to the dry-cleaners, there will never, ever be a shortage of dishes and laundry. (more…)
Craft supplies are unruly in any situation. But kids’ craft supplies are doubly frustrating. How do you keep them organized? It’s like herding cats! (more…)
Don’t get me wrong, it is VERY important to organize your drawers. (After all, I don’t want anyone revoking my NAPO* status!) When it comes to your clothes it is imperative to know what you have and to wear it–to actually put on the clothes in your drawers.
The division of labor debate is one of the most common problems running through every live-together relationship I have ever come across. How do couple and multiple roommates decide: Who does the dishes? Who cleans the refrigerator? Who pays the bills? Who schedules social activities for the house? (more…)
For reasons that are irrelevant to this article, I put a clothing rack in m
y living room last week. I put it there temporarily and I put it in what I thought was the least obtrusive place. The rack is tall and partially obstructs a window. (more…)
