Favourite Organising Tools #9 – Baskets (1)
July 10, 2008
Baskets make really good organising tools for containing items. When you’re organising, you always want to keep like items together and this is a great way to do just that.
It’s much easier to pull a basket off a shelf, remove something and then put it back instead of feeling your way on the shelf, messing up everything. When the basket has a handle, it’s also very easy to carry from room to room (like in the case of cleaning supplies).
They’re cheap and you can easily re-purpose if you outgrow the basket or it no longer suits the original purpose. Continue Reading
Space Treat: Mountains of Mail
July 9, 2008
So you’re off to the beach, the mountains or wherever your Summer travels take you. When you get home, guess what will be “not-so-quietly” waiting for you… your mail! As you snap scenic shots, surf the waves and hike the trails, your mail will be multiplying like rabbits.
Before you go away, look at your calendar and actually schedule in time for the week you return to immediately deal with the backlog of mail that will have mounted. For example, plan to focus on it for an hour while you’re doing the vacation mail lurking what a relief it will be to know that you’ve already padded your week with extra time to deal with it.
If you’ve already incorporated some of my tips from earlier this year and are receiving most of your mail electronically, then the above scenario applies to your email. At least you won’t have to do as much shredding.
Space-tacularly,
Erica
The Clutter-Busting Handbook
July 7, 2008
Do you ever feel frustrated with organizing advice? At times I find myself thinking “Yeah, easy for her! She was probably born organized!”
Well, Rita Emmett has written a great little handbook for the rest of us – for the unlucky souls who were born messy.
The Clutter-Busting Handbook is a humorous and practical look at why we have clutter and what we can do about it. Her helpful advice will help you rid your life of clutter once and for all! Not only does she deal with the “how-to’s” of going through and getting rid of stuff, but she addresses why we have it around in the first place and walks us through how to get over those (sometimes crippling) learned behaviors. Definitely a must-read! Check it out in our “Good Reads from Clutter Control Freak” section to the left.