Is your home swamped with catalogs and magazines? Wondering how to keep things in order and under control? Today’s post has a few tips to help you better manage the various publications inside your home. Cut down on your subscriptions. How many magazine and catalog...
Organizing Tip: Quiz – Should You Hold a Garage or Yard Sale?
Are you thinking about holding a garage or yard sale this summer?Sitting on the fence as to whether or not you should hold one?Holding a garage/yard sale might seem like an easy thing…
Organizing Tip: Staying Focused While Working on an Organizing Project
Have you ever started an organizing project only to find yourself distracted? Your mind starts to wander and it’s getting harder and harder to concentrate on your work. Today’s offers a few tips to help you stay focused while working on an organizing project. Define...
Time Management Tip: How to Prevent Overbooking Your Schedule When You’re Retired
Are you soon to be or recently retired? Ready to take on a whole host of new experiences but don’t want to suffer from activity burnout? Today’s post covers a few items the recently retired should keep in mind when planning their days around new activities...
It’s The Order Expert’s Second Birthday! (and 10 Most Popular Posts to Date)
I started this blog on April 30th, 2011. I didn’t know a thing about blogging, but I did have one thing in mind: to get out there and spread my passion and enthusiasm for organizing and to help others. A whopping 370+ posts and two years later I’m still here, happily...
Organizing Tip: Taming Paper on Your Desk
Is your desk a sea of papers? Frustrated by flurries of floating files? Today’s post offers several tips to help get the papers on your desk under control. Contain incoming papers to one area. A desk or workspace is useful only if there’s space on which you can work...
Time Management Tip: A Timely Approach Towards Time Management
Are you looking for a different way to approach time management? Today’s post provides you with an interesting way of looking at and managing time; that of a “timely” fashion! When’s the last time someone asked you how your decade was going? Perhaps it was at a school...
Organizing Tip: Keeping Your Finances in Order
Do you have trouble keeping track of your finances?Do due dates for bills catch you off guard, month after month? In this post…
Time Management Tip: What to Keep in Mind When Starting a Project
Starting a project at home or work? Wondering what you should keep in mind when it comes to time management? Today’s post provides you with some hints to help keep you on the straight and narrow. Think time and task. It happens to the best of us .You start a project...
Organizing Tip: How to Succeed in Organization Without Really Trying
Want to be successful at keeping your belongings in order? Looking for relatively easy ways to be organized? (note the stress on relatively, please!) Today’s post covers an interesting approach towards being organized. Hopefully these tips will help you get things...