Archive for the 'Organizing Your Home' Category

It’s All Rock n’ Roll to Me

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

It’s been a fun and relaxing summer for me, with lots of travel across the US for pleasure. Often when I’m away from my regular routine and familiar surroundings, I experience moments where my perspective shifts and my mind expands. This time was no exception. I just recently returned from Cleveland, Ohio where I had [...]

Tips to Organize Any Closet: Size Doesn’t Matter

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

With the nicer weather comes ‘spring fever’ and I am certainly not immune to it. Hubby and I spent a couple of hours last weekend decluttering the walk in closet that we share, in preparation for a move. I mentioned this to one of my Facebook fans and she admitted that she thought my home [...]

Getting Organized in the Laundry Room

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Do you dread doing laundry? Are the piles growing out of control? Putting it off won’t make it go away. Let’s face it – dirty laundry is a fact of life. But doing laundry becomes less of a chore when you have an efficient, pleasing room to do it in. If you want to create [...]

Are Tolerations Tiring You Out?

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

How long have you been using those tongs that give you carpel tunnel because they’ve never worked properly? How many times have you tripped over the rug by the front door because the edges don’t sit flat? Is the drip, drip, drip of the bathroom faucet keeping you up night after night? I don’t know [...]

The High Cost of Storing Your Stuff

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

The radio host who interviewed me yesterday wanted to know why self-storage units seem to be popping up on every corner. I did some quick research and discovered that the off-site storage industry has experienced an 81% growth over the last decade. Is it hard to believe that it is a 22 billion dollar industry? Not [...]

Letting Go

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

The other day, I was having a conversation with my wise friend Sue and she said to me that holding on to negative emotions is like having a clog in your drain; the water still flows but not as freely as it would if the clog was cleared. But if we ignore the clog, more serious problems can occur [...]