Zoning does not pertain to city planning alone. This term is often used by interior designers when trying to delineate functions within a multipurpose room; the same concept can be applied to organizing. And guess what, you’re doing it. You may not realize it, but you’re zoning.Manufacturers of kitchen appliances and accessories make zoning suggestions. The presence of a dairy…
We’ve talked about recycling plastic bags but there are other approaches to keep your plastic bags from overflowing – reducing your plastic bag use with reusable containers. From cloth and nylon bags, to boxes and baskets, or backpacks and push carts there are many alternative ways to reduce the number of plastic bags accumulating in your home. The less you…
Even professional organizers have to let go sometimes and yes, even professional organizers are known to have a few emotional items in their closets. We like to think of these hiccups in our otherwise perfectly organized (NOT) lives as assurance that we are human and reminders of the struggles of our clients. Right – human we are. Straight face I have not. So…
When my local recycling program added plastic grocery and shopping bags to their list of acceptable recyclables I was so happy. People with bags of bags know what I’m talking about. Finally, there was an option for disposing all of those indestructible plastics, other than the landfill for the next 1,000 years. To reduce your bag accumulation start by sorting…
A meeting with a colleague ran overtime on a Friday afternoon a couple weeks ago. As I dashed out the door I said, “I hope dinner’s ready when I get home”. Unfortunately, that’s not how it played out. I arrived home to discover our fridge sitting in the middle of the kitchen. Our four-year-old fridge had died.We learned that General…
You organized your desk top, cleared out your files, set up your hot files and got your income tax in on time with a moderate “clean up this mess” bill from your accountant. Congratulations! And now you sit dispondant staring at a piles of paper on the floor, an inbox full of unopened mail – both electronic and otherwise –…
