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Organizing Your Garage

Best Organizing Tips for Dad: Part 3 If there’s one area of the home that is almost universally claimed by dads, it’s the garage. It’s also the one area where organizing can be its most challenging: it’s a big space and a lot goes on…
Organizing Gifts for Dad

Organizing Gifts for Dad

Best Organizing Tips for Dad, Part 2 It’s almost Father’s Day, so how about some ideas for the best gifts to help the men in your life get organized? I’ve compiled a few of my favorite products that they will love! New Dad If you’re…
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Organizing Warranties & Manuals

Best Organizing Tips for Dad: Part 1 Warranties, manuals and instructions, oh my! With the purchase of any new gadget, tool or toy, you also find yourself saddled with a lot of paper. Father's Day is around the corner and new devices --  and…
3 Ways to Make Life EAsier

3 Ways to Make Life Easier

Best Organizing Tips for Mom: Part 3 Wouldn’t it be nice if you could simply snap your fingers and get things done? It may not always be a snap, but a click will work just as well.  As a working parent, I have mastered the art of snapping…
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Holy Guacamole!

Feliz Cinco de Mayo! For Americans, it’s the perfect Mexican holiday that no Mexican would celebrate (outside of the ones in Puebla who kicked out the occupying French army on this day in 1862). Those of us north of the border have adopted…
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Scheduling Your Busy Life

Best Organizing Tips for Mom: Part 2 Man plans, and God laughs. – Yiddish proverb From the earliest days of being a parent, keeping to a schedule is a lofty and sometimes laughable goal. New parents aim to put their babies on feeding schedules,…
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Your Home Command Center: The Best Way to Organize Your Family

Best Organizing Tips for Mom: Part 1 Do you ever feel like your world is spinning out of control? Are you unable to keep everything straight between work commitments, PTA meetings, doctors’ appointments, your various volunteer roles and the…
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Organize Your Files for Success

The thought of filing may fill a precious few with joy: “Hooray! I’m processing that paper and finding a home for it!” But if you’re like most, the thought of filing comes with a wave of dread. If you fall into the latter category, I’m…
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Organize Your Desk for Success

What is your workspace like? Is it a sanctuary you escape to in order to focus, create and produce brilliant work? Or is it a place you run away from (or would like to run away from) because you can’t focus, aren’t able to access the items…
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Organize Your Paper for Success

What does your desk look like? Is it a blank slate, waiting for inspiration to strike, or is it strewn with a mess of papers that looks like a tornado just touched down? I’ve seen both and lived through it all! I’m a “Nothing Out”…