Let Your Life In!
August 25, 2008
Knock Knock…
Who’s there?
Your life… let me in!
Lamenting how you’d like to have more room for your life? Perhaps you’d like to entertain spontaneously or actually enjoy a weekend without thinking about how much you need to get organized or even find everything you want with out frustration. Sounds good, doesn’t it?
Catalog by catalog and shoe by shoe, your clutter is stealing your space from you. Want to let your life back in? Then lighten your load!
When you’re trying to trim your stuff, instead of thinking of it as “letting your things go”, think of it as “letting your life in”.
With every square foot of stuff you move out, there is the possibility for more breathing room. You’ll have easier access to the things you really love and efficient use of the things you need.
Space-tacularly,
Erica
Tips to Getting Your Child Organized for School
August 22, 2008
Today’s children have the overflowing paperwork and bulging day planners of pint-sized CEOs. And organizing those activities and assignments takes capable assistants: Mom and Dad.
“Without parental intervention, virtually all elementary school children, and many middle and high school youths, will be unable to manage the flow of information from school to home and back again,” said Dr. Anne Rambo, associate professor of family therapy at Nova Southeastern University in Florida and author of the book “I Know My Child Can Do Better!”
Institute a daily backpackunpacking ritual, she advises. Sit down with the child after school and sort through all the contents, putting them in one of six piles: trash, supplies, books, things to keep such as graded papers, longterm assignments such as instructions for a book report due next month, and shortterm assignments such as homework due the next day. Continue Reading
Back to School Goodies
August 21, 2008
Right 12, Left 37, Right 16 – that was my high school locker combination.
Back to school season is here! We’re surrounded by lots of new notebooks, pens, paper tablets and my favorite… magnetic gadgets for lockers!
Even if you’re all grown up, you can still get a bang out of these fun and functional items. Continue Reading