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Your Problem: Sanity Clause
LINENS N THINGS Your Problem: Sanity Clause Getting organized for the Holidays It’s possible to be organized, generous, and sane this holiday season. Here’s how. This may be the season of peace and goodwill, but you don’t feel very cool, calm and joyous at the moment. The house is a mess and it’s impossible to… Read more…
Your Problem: Too Much Mail Piled All Over the House
REAL SIMPLE Your Problem: Too Much Mail Piled All Over the House Kari Bloom, 38, works long hours as a brand manager at a Boston Internet company, and although she’d like to come home to order at the end of the day, she hasn’t been able to tame the piles of paper that clutter most… Read more…
Your Problem: CDs piled everywhere
REAL SIMPLE Your Problem: CDs piled everywhere Guy McCarter’s wife, Joanne, describes her 44-year-old husband variously as a music aficionado, collector, and fanatic. She brought 10 CD’s to the marriage; he brought a meticulously alphabetized collection of 800. Ten years and two children later, alphabetizing is a thing of the past and CDs are piled… Read more…
Your Problem: Shoes spilling out of your bedroom closet
REAL SIMPLE Your Problem: Shoes spilling out of your bedroom closet Linda Johnston, a 60-year-old with grown children who lives with her husband in Portland, Oregon, loves collecting beautiful things and loathes parting with anything. She describes her aesthetic as “cluttered” – and wouldn’t have it any other way. One thing she could do without,… Read more…
Your Problem: Cluttered Desk
ALLURE Your Problem: Cluttered Desk I love it when people insist that their clutter is actually their personal organizational system. Yeah, right. That’s why the average corporate worker loses 14 days a year looking for things he can’t find. Trust me, taking the time up front to file a document is faster than trying to… Read more…
Your problem: More Closet Chaos
Your problem: More Closet Chaos As seen on ABCNews.com The bedroom closet often ends up being a magnet for the stuff we don’t know what to do with, from out-of-season beach bags to outfits that haven’t seen the light of day in years. That makes it a focal point for spring-cleaning, a topic that Good Morning… Read more…
Your Problem: Closet Chaos
ALLURE Your Problem: Closet Chaos Most of the messes I’ve seen in my 13 years of organizing others for a living have been caused by the same problem: People in a hurry don’t put things away properly. And as the piles grow, so does the time it takes to untangle them. Organizing your closet today… Read more…
Excerpted from “Heidi Klum: Time to Shine”
WOMAN’S WEAR DAILY Woman’s Wear Daily Excerpted from “Heidi Klum: Time to Shine” By Julie Naughton [Heidi] Klum has just launched her own channel on AOL.com, heidiklum.aol.com…“I wanted to launch a destination,” said Klum. Beauty, fashion, interior decorating, fitness, nutrition, organization, arts and crafts for kids are all part of the channel — mostly, she… Read more…
HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR ACCESSORIES
Allure Insiders’ Guide FASHION HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR ACCESSORIES An Interview With Linda Rothschild Rothschild is the founder of Cross It Off Your List, a personal organizing service based in New York City. Even the most impeccably dressed women may still toss their jewelry, scarves, and sunglasses into one jumbled drawer. But organizing all that chaos will… Read more…
Organize Your Sweaters
InStyle Organize Your Sweaters Make grabbing your favorite cool-weather knits a breeze in three steps Pare down your collection Know which sweaters are wardrobe essentials and donate the rest (along with anything that is damaged beyond repair, stretched out, or too small). Count on needing a few thin crew or V-neck knits for layering under… Read more…
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