71 Percentage who say their quality of life would improve if they were better organized.
65 Percentage who described their home as at least moderately disorganized.
27 Percentage who agree disorder keeps them from being effective at work.
Monthly Archives: January 2024
The key to organizing is to edit, then sort, then place. If you don’t have room for it, don’t love it or don’t use it, donate it. Break up the daunting task into smaller, manageable chunks. Even 15 minutes a day can chip away at the project – in time you will cover it all.
Time to store the decor? The holidays are such fun and who doesn’t like to take their house apart and decorate for a few short weeks? It’s the UNdecorating where I come in. Consider hiring a professional to dismantle the decor, wrap it, pack it, label it, and store it in heat safe, stackable containers and bins.
I recently had the opportunity to dismantle Halloween and Autumn for a client. There were 28 bins and 5 bagged life-sized characters, this was driven to a spacious storage unit where SURPRISE! I found over 200 bins of Christmas decor. Requiring a 24-foot rental truck, extra muscle and weeks of organizing this client was able to see everything she didn’t know she had. The decor had been improperly wrapped causing damage, mislabeled bins causing confusion, all resulting in many duplicates purchased over the years.
In January, I will return to UNdecorate and this time the task will be done efficiently and properly. Maybe, just maybe… I can reduce the number of bins to under 200 and next year a pickup truck may be the only transport required. One can only hope.
I am going to lose weight. I am going to quit your habit goes here. I am going to join the gym or go more often. I am going to clean out my closet! I am going to straighten my pantry! I am going to purge my garage!
And on and on the list goes… Enlist the help of a professional. A trainer, a coach, a nutritionist… how about an ORGANIZER! Many stores are boasting organizing and storage sales in the month of January. Excellent time to take advantage of the money saving month and get going!
This organizer is available and ready to assist you and turn your resolution into a solution that is lasting and satisfying. Now is the time.
New Year? Resolutions? Fresh Start? A great time to get organized. Office supplies and filing supplies are on sale everywhere! Get started! In today’s cyber and digital world, we truly don’t need to keep paper like we used to. I had a client who insisted on keeping paper documents and tax returns that dated back to 1973. I couldn’t talk him out of it as he was afraid of the big bad auditor! So, with respect I organized all his boxes and files into bins safely in his garage.
The important part was moving forward. I organized all his receipts and supporting documents all year through so when it was time to file, it was easy and quick to package it up for his accountant. The accountant? Loved me. My client? Sadly, passed away this year. The bins in his garage entered the teeth of a shredder. The moral of this story? We don’t need to keep old paper documents forever. Don’t leave these for your children to sort through. Seek the advice of your accountant as to what to keep and what not to keep and how long. I promise you don’t need to keep the 1973 documents.
So, start fresh… clean out… the worn-out manila file folders can be replaced with colorful ones that will make you happy when opening that drawer… use a label maker to label the folders so they are consistent and readable… get some new pens and pencils… perhaps fun colorful desk accessories… most important… file the piles and keep up with it all year long! That is a worthy resolution!