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Archive for September 2008

September 29th, 2008

AnywhereVault Home Inventory One-Year Anniversary Special

Do you remember the AnywhereVault Giveaway that we had here back in July? Well, just wanted to let you know that if you were interested in a home inventory solution, but didn’t happen to win that giveaway, now is a good time to try AnywhereVault.

If you need a crash course reminder about this useful home [...]

By Jennifer -- 1 comment

September 29th, 2008

Celebrate Blogtoberfest with b5media Lifestyles Channel

The b5media Lifestyles Channel is excited to announce our Second Annual Channel Wide Blogtoberfest!
Blogtoberfest will run an entire two weeks throughout our channel beginning Monday, October 6th and wrapping up Friday, October 17th.
Here’s how it will work:
Each day select blogs within the channel will post as usual, the only difference is, they’ll post our beautiful [...]

By Jennifer -- 7 comments

September 28th, 2008

What exactly is clutter?

We’re always talking about clutter here. How to beat clutter, get rid of it, minimize the disorder, and so on. But, here’s the deal; clutter is like beauty, sort of in the eye of the beholder. I’m a minimal type myself. If I can’t use it, don’t like it, or don’t honestly need it, an [...]

By Jennifer -- 2 comments

September 28th, 2008

Five handy moving tips

Organizing a move is a lot of work. Trust me, last month I found out I had to move within the span of a month, and it was no picnic. If you’re moving the best thing to have is time, not move on the spur of the moment like I just did. That said, no [...]

By Jennifer -- 3 comments

September 28th, 2008

What’s the worst clutter you ever got rid of?

The point of this blog is to declutter (not surprising considering the blog name). I try to help readers here declutter, sort the mess, and get organized. Overall, I think I’m pretty good at stuff like this. However, we all make mistakes.
I’m pretty minimal when it comes to stuff. I’m not living in four white [...]

By Jennifer -- 4 comments

September 27th, 2008

Tips for organizing your photo collection

I’m still in the process of organizing my own photo collection - it’s taking a while, what with me just moving and all. I have managed to sort out all the photos I don’t adore though. Pretty soon I’ll be ready to tackle the next step - what to do with the photos I’m keeping.
There [...]

By Jennifer -- 2 comments

September 24th, 2008

Organizing problem: you fail at organizing because you’re scared of boredom

It’s hard to organize if you own too much stuff. I talk about extra stuff here all the time, but I keep it up, because it’s an important point.
We’ve looked at basic clutter, useless clutter, and sentimental clutter but another type of clutter is clutter you own because of a fear of boredom - to [...]

By Jennifer -- 5 comments

September 23rd, 2008

Save time by combining tasks

We’re a society of no time. It seems we’re always running out. My first suggestion would be to buy less stuff and work less, but some of use do that anyhow, and still run short (trust me, I’m one of them). To save time choose tasks that can be combined, such as:
Clean the bathroom while [...]

By Jennifer -- 0 comments

September 21st, 2008

Rebel parenting kid and chores tip

In the previous post we looked at, how to get your kids to clean and organize. I left one tip out. My reasoning for leaving this tip off the original list was because I think it’s one of the most important kid tips around - especially when it comes to chores, so I figured we’d [...]

By Jennifer -- 3 comments

September 21st, 2008

How to get your kids to clean and organize

Getting your kids in line with cleaning and organizing is not as hard as you might think. Here are some ideas…
Don’t be bossy: My son is naturally tidy (must be genetics) but it’s not all cake for me because he’s organized in a different way than I am. He’s a visual organizer, which I’ve discussed [...]

By Jennifer -- 2 comments