How To Organize Clutter With 14 Uncomplicated Tips

•7 Simple Ways To Rid Yourself of Fear and Organize Your Life
Do you want to clear clutter but you tell yourself you can’t organize? There are many reasons we tell ourselves we can’t clear clutter in our homes and lives. Let’s get rid of the idea that we can’t get rid of clutter. I was hiking up a steep trail and as I looked at the top I knew that was where I wanted to be but it looked so high and so far away. I knew where I needed/wanted to be and I knew how to get there—by placing one foot in front of another and keep on walking. It didn’t matter...

•5 Organizing Ideas To Control Clutter
Wouldn’t it be great to have a clutter control wand that was magic and you could wave it over your closet, drawers, shelf’s, filing cabinet, book cases and other places that were cluttered and it would whisk away the clutter so you didn’t have to deal with it? The problem with that is what you might not think is clutter it would think was clutter and whisk it away. Since I bet you don’t have a magic wand here are 5 organizing tips for clutter control. 1. Only keep things in your home that...

•Seven Timely Tips to Organize Clutter for Busy Women
Children are a lot of work! For the last week I have been taking care of my grandchildren who are visiting from out of state. What a delight they have been and what a challenge it is to keep up with them. My 3 ½ year old grandson said to me “grandma, I love you”. I told him I loved him too and he said; “grandma I don’t love you very much, I only love you a little”. I have laughed at that so many times. It’s a good thing we love our children and grandchildren very much because they take up...

•Get More Out of Life Clear Clutter Using a Day Planner
Have you ever forgotten an appointment or an important date? Do you think of things you need to do later but don’t remember to do them because you have no place to write them down? Do you have one place to write your most frequently used phone numbers and addresses? How would you like a memory prompter? Do you need a stress reliever in your life? Do you want to clear the clutter in your life? Obtaining a day planner and using it can clear the clutter and organize your life. “The worst pencil...

•10 Ideas To Simplify Your Life
One thing I really don’t like is to be late in sending birthday wishes to my friends. Here are some simple and effective ideas and tips to help you reduce clutter in your home and in your life that will help you remember all the things you want to get done. In your planner have an ongoing to do list. Everything you want to accomplish write it on your list. This way you won’t have to remember it and when you read the list it will be a great reminder of what you want to do. You don’t have to...

•Two Tips To Help You Indulge Yourself While Organizing Clutter
Have you ever noticed how many things come in two’s? I am making a quilt called “Mile A minute”. I start out with one piece and add it to another piece so I go from a onesies to a twosies and on and on. I know people who give measurements in recipes by saying “you take a pinch of this and a pinch of that”. We love playing the card game Pit and we start out trading with “two for two”. There is a television station that has a program called “Take 2”. I have doubled two and am giving two...

•Inspiring Cooperation In Others To Organize Through Clutter Control
As a professional organizer when I speak to women’s group I am often asked, “how can I get my children to pick up after themselves” or “how can I get my husband to put his tools away or pick up his socks and put them in the hamper”? I have suggestions on how to motivate children but when it comes to husbands I tell them when they find the answer to that please let me know. So, let’s get motivated: It is unrealistic to expect our children or our significant others to be organized at home if...

•3 Streamlined Ways to Organize Clutter
The fall leaves are turning bright yellow, red and orange. The hills look like a masterpiece painted by an artist. It is such a beautiful time of the year with the riot of color in the mountains and in the valleys. The air smells fresh and the cooler days and nights are glorious. So what’s not to like about fall? For me it is the hay fever that comes with more pollen and “stuff” in the air. About August I start hoping for snow to settle the air so I don’t have to carry around a box of tissues...

•Get Rid Of Clutter Fast and Easy With These Simple Tips
Let’s face it, there are some things that we don’t like to do either because we think they are hard or we don’t know where to begin or how to do them. A few years ago I was making one of my daughters her freedom quilt (this is a red, white and blue quilt I give them on their 21st birthday). I was appliquéing blue snowflakes onto a white background. I hit a wall and I couldn’t continue making the quilt. Just the thought of sewing on it almost made me ill. Another daughter suggested I make only...

•7 Basic Organizing Tips To Get Rid of Paper Clutter
I love getting thank you notes. I like reading what my friends have to say about the gift or service I have done for them. I like the beauty of the cards and I love getting “good” mail. The fact that my friends took the time to write me a note makes me feel important. I received a call from a friend a few years ago who told me she was re-reading her thank you notes that she had saved forever. She came across one of mine and she called to tell me about it. It was sweet because I got to chat...