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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
SUCCESSFUL MEETINGS Your Problem: Finances in chaos at tax time Beware the ides of March. Okay, you don’t have to worry about getting stabbed to death like Caesar. But come the 15th, you’ve only got one more month to prepare your tax returns. Linda Rothschild, head of the New York City professional organizing firm Cross… Read more…
O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE Your Problem: General Disorder SOLUTION 1: DON’T FOCUS ON THE WHOLE ROOM. Instead, tackle one drawer, one cabinet, or one pile of papers per day. You’ll have a sense of accomplishment with little effort. SOLUTION 2: SORT THINGS BY FUNCTION. Put coffee cups near the coffee pot, the mirror near the… Read more…
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