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                                                           Do you have a hard time with clutter control in your home? Do you have different items throughout your home that you hate to part with but they are just taking up space? Here are 3 organizing ideas for clutter control to help you get control of the things you have in your home.

I remember stories of spring cleaning where the women would take the rugs out and hang them on a line and beat out the dirt.  They would wash walls and work for weeks sweeping out the cobwebs and making their homes spic and span.

Do you just not have enough space in your kitchen?  It is always disorganized? Do you waste a lot of time looking for things in your kitchen?

Is your kitchen a place you enjoy being in or is a place you go to because you have to be there to prepare meals? Because it serves a variety of purposes it needs to be organized to meet the needs of everyone in the family.

To aide in kitchen organization having the right kind of storage solutions is important to keeping organized. Here are 9 organizing tips using a variety of storage solutions to keep your kitchen organized.

Do you dread opening your email because of all the clutter there? Does the mail pile up and pile up until it has become unmanageable? 

I worked with a client a few weeks ago and we set up a filing system in her home office.  Then we organized every other room in her home. She called me to say she felt free because of all the organizing we had done. She could now find everything and by putting things away where they belonged she didn't have to donate large chunks of time to find things she needed. She carried it one step further by organizing her electronic mail. Technology organizing is something we often neglect.

Bill Paying doesn't need to be a dreadful task that we have to do. It can easily be put off because we think it is such an awful chore. Here are 5 organizing tips on how to simplify bill paying and sorting the mail so it is no longer something you dread doing.

When the weather is cold I love turning up the furnace.  I am glad I wasn't a pioneer because I love my electric blanket and warm showers.  In the summer it is nice to step into our home and feel the cool air when it is hot outside. But having heat and air conditioning means there is a bill to pay for these services. Bill paying can be an arduous task.

My belief as a professional organizer is that it takes a lot less energy and saves a lot more time when things have a designated place to "live" and it is tons better when those things live in a container in their home.

I know everyone has containers in their home that won't cost them a single cent. All you need to do is recycle and repurpose those unused containers lying about. Let's see how many containers you already have that you can use.

Do you wish your home looked like a page from House Beautiful and you feel it never measures up?  How do you know when your home is organized—when you have "arrived"?

When did life get so hectic? Are you always rushing around hunting for things, are you accruing fines at the library, do you have clutter because there just aren't places for what you own?  If so, you are not alone!

To help simplify your life and save time here are ten plus big organizing ideas for using plastic bags for travel, cooking, crafts and every day use.

When we went traveled to New Zealand I packed all of my clothes in various sizes of plastic bags. At the one B&B I was getting out my clothes to wash and the owner was watching me.  She was amazed at the plastic bags I had in my suitcase.  She didn't know there are jumbo size bags down to the snack size bags.

Organizing can be effortless--honest. To me it can even be easy, but I will not use that word because every time someone tells me something is easy it ends up being hard for me. I have some more simple organizing tips on clutter control to help make organizing everything and everyplace in your home effortless.

When phones stayed in one place on their cradle it was easy to find it and hopefully paper and pencil next to the phone.  Times have changed and now we can answer the phone and walk all over our home without being tethered to one place.  I remember ordering a ten foot phone cord so I would have more freedom when I was talking on the phone.

 Do's and Don'ts to organize effortlessly. Do you want to be organized but it sounds like such a big job that you give up before you start?  Here are organizing tips to get you going and to keep you going.

Have you ever said, I am so disorganized, if only I could organize, I hate to organize, it is so hard, or I wish organizing was easy?  If you have said any of the above, read on for great Do's and Don'ts that are so easy even you won't know you are organizing.

Are you ready to get rid of paper piles all over your desk, your kitchen counter and other places in your home? Then read on to get rid of your paper piles once and for all.

Paper is one thing we keep getting more and more of in our lives and it isn't going to stop any time soon. It is so easy to get the mail, look through it and start making piles. Here are five organizing tips to get rid of paper piles forever:

I have read that we spend about a third of our lives in bed. Wow! That is a lot of time to be lying on or between sheets. Have you ever questioned what thread count means, what kind of fabric is the softest and how to decide what depth of fitted sheet to buy for your mattress?

As a professional organizer I have been asked these questions. Here are the organizing tips I have to answer these questions.

Do you suffer from clutter, clutter everywhere in your home? Is your place just not big enough? Here are 4 tips on how to make your home bigger without tearing out the walls.

Messy rooms, disorganized closets and jumbled junk drawers (I think of them as resource drawers) add unneeded hassle to our already hectic days and lives.  

I am always hearing how stressful the holidays are. If you feel they are stressful for you here are 10 organizing tips on how to reduce stress in the days leading up to the holidays.

You know how Santa makes a list and checks it twice? That is exactly what we need to do. Make a master list of what you want and need to do before and during the holidays. Here are some organizing tips to get you started making out your list:

Do you love to receive Christmas cards but you dread having to send them out?  Here are 7 timely organizing Tips and Organizing ideas to take the stress out of sending cards.

Last week at my rug hooking group we were chatting about Organizing ideas for Christmas and about our favorite memories and organizing ideas surrounding Christmas cards.