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12 Ways to Organize with Amazon

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Amazon Prime is a great way to organize! Become a Prime Member First, if you are not an Amazon Prime member, Try Amazon Prime 30-Day Free Trial. I have been a Prime member for years and I cannot tell you how much I have saved on shipping alone. I love, love, love 2-day shipping! Plus, I watch videos, listen to music, and have unlimited photo storage—UNLIMITED. This summer I finally uploaded ALL my photos. Now I don’t have to worry about backing them up or losing them in a computer crash. … [Read more...] about 12 Ways to Organize with Amazon

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How to Find More Storage Space in a Small House

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If you’re like me, you’ve probably thought, “I’d love to put everything in its place, if only it had a place!”  How can you go about finding a place for everything, especially if you live in a storage-challenged house? Landing Box First, let’s think about an immediate solution for those hot-spots where stuff piles up.  I'm talking about counters, tables, and other horizontal surfaces.  You need a landing box to collect that stuff. A landing box is like an inbox, but big enough to hold the … [Read more...] about How to Find More Storage Space in a Small House

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Two Minutes: A List of Things You Can Do Around the House

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In a previous post about demolishing piles, I ended at the point of me starting to do items in my “Take Action” box that take two minutes or less.  Why that length of time?  David Allen says in his book Getting Things Done, “The rationale for the two-minute rule is that that’s more or less the point where it starts taking longer to store and track an item than to deal with it the first time it’s in your hands—in other words, it’s the efficiency cutoff.”  Get it? The efficiency cutoff means that … [Read more...] about Two Minutes: A List of Things You Can Do Around the House

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How to Avoid These Critical Inbox Mistakes

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Taming the Inbox This past weekend I started whittling away at my inbox.  I’m not sure what other people use their inbox for, but for me, it is a catchall.  Everything goes in here: bills, articles, flyers, photos, receipts, catalogs, artwork, school papers, broken items, extra buttons or screws, etc.  In fact, there is so much stuff in here that I don’t have an inbox, I have (several) in-piles that live in big boxes. Typically, when I attempt to go through my inbox, I spend most of the time … [Read more...] about How to Avoid These Critical Inbox Mistakes

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Organization does not equal tidiness

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What exactly is organization? We talk a lot about “getting organized,” but what does that really mean?  When I think of “being organized,” visions of sparse, minimalist homes dance in my head.  Vast, clutter-free horizontal surfaces abound, not a single pile of paper is to be found anywhere, and all items are arranged in beautiful, color-coded containers. Looking at Pinterest only adds fuel to this fantasy.  Given what I see there, the beautifully organized people live in mostly-white homes … [Read more...] about Organization does not equal tidiness

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Post Christmas Cleanup

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Today I took down the Christmas decorations.  With the help of the kids, this actually went pretty fast.  The main reason for this is that I limit the amount of decorations that we have.  Let’s face it: I’ve got a small house and don’t have much room for knick-knacks.  We put up a tree, a wreath on the door, stockings, a nativity scene, and dining table decor.  There are just a few other items that go on shelves and the kids each have something special that they put in … [Read more...] about Post Christmas Cleanup

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