Marilyn Bohn
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Get It Together Organizing

WELCOME! Every day you will find ways to organize your life and clear your clutter. As a professional organizer I'll provide you with practical information and products on how to declutter your home, office and life.  I also specialize in helping busy women and seniors in their homes.   Marilyn's Blog 

                               

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10 Tips For Car Trips You'll LoveWith Children PDF Print E-mail

Clutter ControlCar Trips with kids can be a harrowing experience where everyone ends up fighting and ruining the vacation. Here are 10 tips to make the car trip half the fun. With preparation you’ll want it to last longer.

Vacationing with kids in a car is no vacation. Or another way of saying this is “being cooped up with the kids in the car is the pits”. If you don’t plan on popping in a DVD and letting the kids watch endless movies here are sanity saving ideas for your car trip.
Long trips can be boring for kids and every two seconds (well maybe one) they are asking, “are we there yet”? Plan ahead before the trip to make your drive pleasant for everyone—of course this works best with school age children.

 

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How To Declutter Paper In Your Home And Office Forever PDF Print E-mail

Clearing the clutter in yoru home and officeI remember when computers were becoming really popular and we all thought they would take care of our paper work pile ups. A man working next to me said he thought they would create more paperwork nightmares. From my observations this has become true.

I have 9 tips on how to declutter paper in our homes and offices:

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11 Awesome Ideas of Things To Do This Summer PDF Print E-mail

Organizing clutter in your home and lifeIf your kids are out of school and you are already counting the days until they go back or you are tired of hearing : “I ’m bored, what is there to do” then this article will brighten your day with 11 awesome ideas of things to do this summer.

In the summer are you frazzled and tired of your kids at the end of every day? Are you counting the days until school starts? Summer can be a time to help spark your creativity and your child’s creativity as well.

Hold a family meeting where kids can choose an activity they are interested in. Older children can help younger children which can help siblings bond to each other and teach them respect for each other.

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Organize Clutter Using These 8 Timely Tips PDF Print E-mail

Organizing clutter in your home and lifeIf you are tired of all the clutter and want to get organized here are 8 tips to help you organize clutter in your home and office.

Clutter, clutter, mutter, mutter. As a professional organizer I work with many people who don’t want to stay home because their homes and lives have become so cluttered with things. Clutter can creep up on us so slowly we don’t realize our homes are cluttered until we become overwhelmed with things. It is time we take a good look at every room in our homes and evaluate how our things make us feel and if what we have lights us up, has a purpose and has a home.

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Number one Reason People Can’t Get Organized PDF Print E-mail

Organizing clutter in your home and officeHave you ever said “I just don’t have time to reduce clutter and get organized in my home and in my life”? Here are 9 tips that will help you find time to clear your clutter.

I was teaching an adult education class to some very bright, very busy adults and we were playing a game I called “Why I can’t get organized”. All ten students said their biggest problem in clearing the clutter was they didn’t have time. Fortunately I have 9 tips that will help you find the time when you are organizing clutter.

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9 Tips To A Sizzling Successful Summer Garage Sale PDF Print E-mail

Clearing the clutter with a garage saleAre you clearing the clutter in your home and you are thinking there are some good things that you could sale and make a little money? Here are 9 tips from a professional organizer on how to organize a successful garage sale.

With the temperature heating up outside now is the time to sell your guilt by clearing the clutter in your home. The saying is “one man’s junk is another man’s treasure”. You can start organizing clutter and make money at the same time.  The way to do this is to have a Sizzling summer garage sale. If you can, have a street or neighborhood group sale that is even better.

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Sell Your Guilt Using These Fun and Easy Tips PDF Print E-mail

Clutter control for your home, life and officeAs a professional organizer I am always helping women in their homes by organizing clutter. Sometimes we hang on to our clutter and then we feel guilty and we feel bad that we hold on and then that we feel guilty. Let’s start organizing clutter by getting rid of it.

Do you say: but I can’t get rid of it because it is wasteful to throw things away? Which is better to hold on to it and continue to feel guilty and have less space and not like what is around us or to let go? Here are a couple of ideas on how to let go:

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Organizing Clutter Using These 4 Easy Tips PDF Print E-mail

Clutter control for your home and lifeIs organizing clutter on your to do list?  No matter what the weather or time of year it is a good time to get rid of clutter. Here are 4 easy tips to help you reduce clutter.

Do you think organizing clutter is a pain in the neck and you just never get around to it?  Now is a good time to get around to it. One reason it is so daunting could be because you don’t know where to start and what to do with all the stuff. Sometimes we just get stuck. I have some great tips on how to get unstuck when it comes to organizing clutter in your home and in your life.

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Reduce Clutter in the Refrigerator and Freezer in 6 Simple Steps PDF Print E-mail
Clutter control in the kitchenIf my friends could see me now!  I had a friend who used to tell me how cluttered my fridge looked on the inside. Have you ever saved food and then it molded so you had to toss it out?  Me too. It’s hard to throw it out even if we probably won’t use that last ¼ of a cup but we don’t want to be wasteful so we save it. But when it has mold on it or smells bad then it is okay to toss it. (Does this sound familiar)?
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Protect Yourself From On-Line Fraud PDF Print E-mail

getting rid of clutter in your home and officeAs a professional organizer I frequently work with people who have been the victims of Internet fraud and I bet you probably know someone or have heard of someone who has also been a victim. Become proactive and protect your identify so you won’t become a statistic of Internet fraud.

We live in a wonderful world where technology is always at our finger tips but we need to use it wisely and make sure our personal identity is protected. In getting rid of clutter on our computers we also need to be conscious of online fraud and ID theft.

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8 Tips to Reduce Clutter By Prioritizing Daily Tasks PDF Print E-mail

Reduce clutter in your homeAre you sick and tired of feeling like you never get anything done? Put first things first by using these 8 tips on how to prioritize your life so you are in control of your time.

There are days when we just feel scattered and don’t know where to start with all the tasks and things we need to do. Do you ever think “the faster I go the further behind I get”? I think we all have days like this.  Let’s put first things first which means let’s prioritize what we need to do and what we want to do and reduce clutter. Prioritizing is all about making choices.

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Clearing Clutter By Using 8 Organizing Gizmos PDF Print E-mail

Clearing clutter in the kitchenAre you a sucker for organizing gizmos? They are more than just gizmos or gadgets; they save us time and money and actually help us in clearing clutter.  Here are 8 ideas to whet your appetite.

1. Do you use a purse and have joked that you have everything in it but the kitchen sink yet you can’t find anything without dumping it all out on the counter or the floor? I have a friend whose husband always teases her that she has everything but the kitchen sink in her purse so she took a miniature doll sink and carried it in her purse.

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6 Organizing Tips to Reduce Clutter and Stress PDF Print E-mail
reduce clutter in your homeDo you ever feel life is passing you by in a whirl wind of activities and personal drama’s? Do you wish for simpler days? That probably isn’t going to happen but what can happen is that you can reduce clutter and simplify your life just by making a few simple choices and maybe a couple of changes. As a professional organizer I suggest 6 organizing tips to reduce clutter and simplify our lives.
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How To Simplify Your Life and Reduce Clutter PDF Print E-mail

Clutter control for your familyPeople often ask me how they can find more time in their day to do all the things they want or need to do. Do you have time to do fun things with your family and friends? Do you have time to do all the things you have scheduled to do every day? As a professional organizer I suggest it may be as easy as getting rid of clutter and simplifying your life and your schedule to help you find time for everything you have “on your plate”.

So how do you simplify your life? Here are 11 simple tips to do just that:

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Clearing Clutter The Easy Way By Giving Up Procrastinating PDF Print E-mail
Clutter clearing for your home and lifeAre you a great procrastinator? Do you say “I’ll just do it tomorrow?” And then tomorrow never comes and before you know it you are in the position that clutter is taking over your space? Well you are not alone! Clearing clutter can become a thing of the past by stopping clutter before it begins. Here are eight tips for clearing clutter before it begins.
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6 Organizing Habits For Clutter Control PDF Print E-mail
Clutter Control for your homeHow many times have you said to yourself I wish I could stay organized?  I am a professional organizer and I tell the women I work with it is possible to keep organized but I don’t think it is possible to stay organized. The word stay gives the impression that once a task is done it is done for good.  But if you have a life, live with someone, have children or have a home no matter how organized things are they just get undone. Here are six tips to help you keep organized by clearing clutter and getting a grip on clutter control on a consistent basis.
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