Here’s a cool app for iPhone or iPad called Sincerely Ink Cards. You can create a card, choosing from a variety of different layouts, pop in your custom photo and send the card! No more deliberating on which card looks remotely personal from the grocery store aisle, now you can make it personal and unique…
Do you need extra hanging space in your closet? What about in a storage or guest room? This nifty gadget is your answer. The Overdoor Valet Rod by Umbra is available at The Container Store and it’s very easy to install. Just put the two ends over the door and snap the rod on the…
Do you cringe at the amount of catalogs and printed material you receive in the mail every day? If you sign up to receive a catalog from one company, often you are put on a list and suddenly you’re getting every catalog printed! Here’s a great website to help you take charge of what catalogs…
Today’s Friday Favorite is an item that we all have–toilet paper holders! Now here’s a great way to put them to re-use. Just cut a slit in the cardboard and wrap them around tubes of wrapping paper to keep it from unraveling. It’s a great way to make use of something you’d otherwise toss and…
Do you have a shoebox overflowing with receipts? Are random receipts falling out of every drawer you open? Today’s Website Wednesday may offer you some receipt relief. Lemon.com offers you a personal @lemon.com email account to send any online receipts to. If you also have a smartphone, there’s a mobile app that allows you to…
January is the best time of year to revamp your filing system. It’s a new year, so you can start fresh and feel organized by paying some attention to those all-too-forgotten files. Any files that you create yearly will need to be re-created. For example, I create monthly files each year. Rather than having individual…
There’s a very interesting production making it’s Chicagoland debut tomorrow called “Clutter: The True Story of The Collyer Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out”. It’s a play based on the true story of the brothers who were wealthy, eccentric hoarders in the 1920’s–long before the hoarding phenomenon. Because of their hoarding, the two brothers became…
January is a great time to clear through your filing system. With the start of a new year, there’s often files that need to be re-created and files from past years that can be put into storage. We suggest that you go through and clean out your files 1-2 times per year, so the time…
If you made any New Year’s resolutions for 2012, you better have a plan in place for how you are going to achieve them. You can’t just say, “I’m going to get organized this year” and leave it at that. You have to take steps to move in that direction on a regular basis throughout…
Cease the moment! Today is National Clean Off Your Desk Day. It’s the perfect opportunity to carve out some time to clear the clutter off of your desk. Here are some steps to get you started: Start with the papers right at your fingertips. It’s always best to start organizing with your most current papers….