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Dragons Fire Prevent Decluttering Your Home

Monday, March 26th, 2012 by admin

Monday’s De-cluttering Your Home Focus:

Back in medieval times map makers would put dragons on the maps when it was dangerous to travel that way. Those reading the maps would detour around these areas.
What are your dragons when it comes to getting organized? Do you have different dragons that stops you from getting rid of clutter or de-cluttering your home?

Do you hang on to beliefs like these…

• I can’t let go of anything because I might need it someday
• I am saving this for my children
• I don’t know where to start
• I’ve lived with it this long why get rid of it now
• If I organize I will never be able to find it again
• If I get rid of anything I will be throwing away my memories
• I don’t have time
• I don’t know where to put things

What are your dragons for not getting rid of clutter or for not decluttering your home? We all have different ones. What are yours? Do you like your dragons or do you want to get rid of them? When we face our dragons it is easier to let go and to declutter. Often the clutter is worse than any story we have made up about why we are keeping it.
Getting Organized with Professional Organizer Marilyn Bohn

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Multi-Task When Getting Rid Of Clutter?

Monday, March 19th, 2012 by admin

Monday’s Getting Rid of Clutter Focus:

Did you know Monday’s focus is a focus for the entire week? It does not have to be done all in one day.

Do you try to get rid of clutter while watching TV? or talking on the phone or while doing something else that is distracting? There is a time and a place to multi-task and getting rid of clutter can be one of those times—or not.

Our focus this week is to take 30 minutes or one hour while you get rid of clutter and focus on only that instead of being distracted.

What made me think of this is me. (I’m so funny) I am finishing my grandmother’s flower garden quilt. I am sewing the edge (by hand as all the rest of the quilt has been sewn by hand) and it is tedious, a bit hard and sometimes boring. I “watch” TV (more like listening to it) while I work on the edge. The other morning (at 5:20 a.m.) I didn’t turn on the TV but instead focused on doing just the edge.

I got twice as much done in less time than when I have the TV on. I keep telling myself, just one hour a day is all I have to work on it to get it done—and just like getting rid of clutter it is getting done, doing it a little at a time. I will soon be able to show you my completed quilt—after 20 years in the making. (I’ll show ‘n share all about it when it is done).

Only once this week focus on getting rid of clutter ONLY without TV or talking on the phone or whatever distracts you (well, music is a good thing if you like to listen and organize). Please let us know how you do as far as getting more done in less time—the bonus is then you can watch your program instead of just listening. Or get rid of more clutter.

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Maxine Shows Us How To Do Clutter Clearing And Winner Announced

Monday, March 5th, 2012 by admin

Monday’s Focus:

I was teaching a class to 30 + women and men who were all over 55 years old and I was telling them about an internet experience “a little old lady” I had in my community education classes shared with us. Then as an aside I said “Oh, I shouldn’t call her a little old lady” (even though she was). A woman in the front row said, “No you shouldn’t”. I felt a bit sheepish. But I like sheep so it was o.k.

Having said that this Maxine is an old lady and she cracks me up.

This week do some stuff around the house—do some clutter clearing– or sit around it, walk around it or lie around it. The choice is yours. Clutter clearing can only happen after you do some thinking about what it is you need to clear—this can be done while lying about, sitting or walking about.

Come back and let us know what you method you chose to find clutter and then do clutter clearing.—won’tcha now?

I am a day late and a dollar short.  You know leaving town really throws a kink in the works. (That is the reason I am late posting the winner.)

Congratulations to Audrey for winning the tax organizer. I wish I had enough to send everyone who left comments. I will have more giveaways in the future. Audrey I have already emailed to be sure to send me your address so I can get this organizer sent off to you.

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Clutter Control Breezy With One Tip

Monday, February 27th, 2012 by admin

Monday’s Clutter Control Focus:
I have a cute little jar from my friend in North Carolina that I use for my cotton balls. I refill the jar from the plastic bag they come in as that is not attractive. I keep the jar on my counter.

As I refilled it last week I put on my list to buy more as there were no more in the plastic bag it came in. Our focus this week is to buy (or put on your shopping list) one item that you are about to run out of—before you run out of it.

Wasn’t that simple? This isn’t about clutter control as much as it is about just being organized by having what you need when you need it.
What do you need to put on your list?

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Healthy Clutter Clearing For Monday’s Focus

Monday, February 6th, 2012 by admin

Clearing Clutter Monday Focus:

There are all sorts of clearing clutter things to do and today I have kind of a strange one to suggest. How many hair brushes do you have?

Depending on the length of my hair I have purchased a few different sizes to blow dry my hair. My hair length has gone between short to shorter and back to just short for the past 20 years but still I have needed to use different brushes.

As I buy a new one I either let the old one go (it sounds like I pack it a little bag and wave good bye as it rolls down the road with the little bag in its bristles). Or I put it in my cupboard out of my premium space. This is one key to clearing clutter—keep only what you use on a regular basis in the space you use all the time.

Do you need or use or even like all the hair brushes you now own or is it time to do some clutter clearing and pack them away or pack them a little bag and say a final good bye?

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Indulge Yourself With Clutter Control On Fridge

Monday, January 30th, 2012 by admin

Monday’s  Clutter Control Focus:

What is on the outside of your fridge? How many magnets do you have? How many ads? How many phone numbers? How many sticky notes? How much outdated information is hanging out on your fridge?

Does your fridge need clutter control?  I’m just asking, no need to stone me. Take a look—a good look and what do you actually see?

This is a photo of my fridge. All three magnets are from my daughters and have meaning to me. One is from the Issaquah fair in Washington, the other a special New Year’s tea this year that Cindy had for us and the other one is over 20 years old and is from Oregon.

Does this focus strike a chord in you and you are itching to do some clutter control? Or is your fridge as clean as a whistle? Or is it cluttered and you like it just the way it is?

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Unhurried Clutter Clearing For Monday Focus

Monday, January 23rd, 2012 by admin

Finally—we got a really good snow storm. I feel like I have been waiting all winter for this. Just down two blocks from my home there were major crashes that a neighbor filmed and put on YouTube. If you want to watch it just search Bountiful 400. We feel it is a miracle no one was injured!

Monday’s Focus is a bit less dramatic that 9 plus (I lost count) cars wrecking. But it can be important nevertheless. Take a peek in your over the door shoe rack. For me it was time to do some clutter clearing.

I peeked in one of the holders and I found 3 lids that go to my hair spray. I only need one when I travel. I also found some instructions to my Sonic Care brush that I have been using for a few years—if I don’t know how to use it now I never will.

Take a peek in yours—do you use it for a shoe rack? If so are there shoes you need to donate or toss, do you use it in the bathroom, do you too need to do some clutter clearing?

It is kinda fun clutter clearing in all the little pockets. What did you find in your pockets?

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Speedy Clutter Control For Monday Focus

Monday, January 9th, 2012 by admin

Monday Clutter Control Focus:

Just a plain and simple focus for clutter control—

  • Toss those old cosmetics you have been hanging on to but never use.
  • You know the ones..I will try it someday. But you never do.
  • It hurt my eyes but maybe next time it won’t.
  • I don’t really like the color but maybe it was just what I was wearing that day.

I gave away mascara I just got as a sample and didn’t try as I have found one that doesn’t hurt my eyes and I tossed something else that I never used and the light bulb came on—we all need to clear out our cosmetics.

What a great focus for clutter control—how about you? Do you have this clutter control “need”?

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Wise Clutter Control = Monday Foucs

Monday, November 7th, 2011 by admin

Monday Clutter Control Focus:

We had a bit of a plumbing problem last week. The bathtub in one of the bathrooms was leaking like a sieve. My husband went to work on it and he had to take a back panel off in the closet to get to the pipes. I know that is odd but that is the way it is.

When it came time to put the panel back on he needed the duck tape. By the way I have been told about another tape called gorilla tape which is even stronger—have you seen it or used it? I am going to look for it.

Anyway, I went to get the duck tape and it wasn’t in the drawer where it belonged—(It wasn’t me who put it away). After he was finished using it I put it back in its assigned home with the rest of the tape.

I thought what a good focus to suggest on clutter control. This week find one thing, or more, that has been put in the wrong place and put it where it belongs. This is a great way to keep organized.

Clutter control is easy when it is done a little at a time. When you see something out of place put it in its place right then.

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Happy Halloween–Spooky Clutter Control Focus Awaits You

Monday, October 31st, 2011 by admin

Today’s Monday Clutter Control focus is for me and you and your friends and your family. (Notice I said me first—I probably need it more than anyone).

This is the deal—do you have someplace that needs clutter control but you just put it off? The holidays are coming and I have made a goal to revisit all cupboards and places in my home but there is one place I have dreaded “going”. It is under my stairs in my utility room—that is the picture you see.

I know it is pretty awful. It has been a couple of years at least; you know how time flies since I have revisited this space.

Consequently today’s focus on clutter control is to revisit a place or a space in your home that needs clutter control. I already have a brilliant idea for the games that are here and I can’t wait to get started.

However it won’t be today that I visit my dreaded place because I am going to write my fingers to the bone and complete the last chapter (which is the first chapter) in my book. How many ways can you say HAPPY?

I will be posting photos of my progress in this space. Wish me luck. I wish you luck too and would Love to hear what place you have been dreading or just putting off doing some clutter control. Remember—it doesn’t have to be big, just recycling old magazines would be big.

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