Organizing

Weekend Reading: Simplifying Edition

July 27, 2012
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Summer has not been kind to our home. Travel, busy schedules and kids home from college, then away again, then back home again, have translated into a lot of dumping of stuff and ignored housework. That’s one reason that this article from Time Magazine’s Moneyland caught my eye: Got Stuff? Typical American Home Is Cluttered with [...]

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40 Day Clutter Challenge

May 22, 2012

Today I’m participating in the Ultimate Blog Swap. You’ll find me posting over at Quintessentially Kate about Found Money, and I’m excited to welcome Lisa from Organize365 to The Family CEO.  Here’s Lisa: Sometimes when your priorities are in the right place, the money takes care of itself. This winter our life was spinning out of control. I [...]

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Organized Simplicity Free at Amazon

January 19, 2012

Organized Simplicity by Tsh Oxenreider is currently free in it’s Kindle version at Amazon. I checked out Tsh’s book from the library last year and got so much out of it that I jumped at the chance to have the ebook version in my library. Tsh (who blogs at Simple Mom) has organized the book into [...]

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Easy Ways to Organize Your Store Reward Cards

March 17, 2011

When did our wallets get so fat? My 15 year-old son just started carrying a wallet, the sum contents of which are a driver’s license, a library card, cash, and the occasional gift card. My wallet, on the other hand, has all of those, along with credit and debit cards, a health insurance card, and [...]

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Cheap Ways to Organize Your Closet

March 18, 2008

I love organized closets, but I like doing them on the cheap. Here are my best tips for organizing your closet using low-cost and no-cost methods. 1. Purge. Really, you must get rid of those things you haven’t worn in a year or more. And even some things that you wear every week, but you [...]

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Cheap Closet Makeovers

March 31, 2006

I have a friend who has had her closets done with California Closets. I love her closets. I envy her for her closets. I can’t afford her closets. And yet my desire to be organized is right up there with my desire to be financially fit. So I’ve given a couple of closets in my [...]

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