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Fill Yourself Up With Good News

As we end the year what happy memories do you remember from the last 365 days? Chances are not many. We can try to remember but without writing them down it is really hard to remember. But if you are...

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Paper Clutter Be Gone!

Photo: see end of article whose paper clutter this is Are you like the majority of people who have listed organizing at the top of your resolutions list, right behind being healthier?  At the very top...

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Downsizing In Today’s World

Downsizing in today’s world is much different than twenty or forty years ago. Parents could give away the furniture and the dishes and the children were happy to take them. Now children are not as...

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Living With A Chronic Illness

As many of you know, my middle son {age 17} was diagnosed with Crohns in October of 2012. Crohns is one of those illnesses that you have maybe heard about or know someone with it, but until you have a...

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Clean Out Your Fridge

 So I purchased a new refrigerator a few years ago and since  then, how many times do you think I have cleaned out the door to my  refrigerator? If you guessed 10x you would be living in a fantasy...

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Does Life Beign At The End Of Your Comfort Zone?

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” Neale Donald Walsch   This saying really hit me this morning as I was looking to what I want to do in 2013. I also took the time to reflect on 2012 as...

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Freezer Clean Out

After I cleaned out my fridge I knew the freezer was not far behind. I found the freezer much easier to clean and organize for some reason, and I am not sure why. Maybe it was because I knew some of...

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Secure Your Own Oxygen Mask First

“If you are traveling with young children, make sure you secure your own oxygen mask first” Whenever I fly, I am always struck by the fact that they give this instruction to the plane full of...

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Be Done With Feeling Guilty

My Mastermind group {think book club on steroids that meets weekly} is reading Danielle LaPorte’s book “The Fire Starter Sessions” and boy is this book filled with life lesson after life lesson for...

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Create Systems That Work For You And Not Against You

As busy people we are always trying to find more time in our day. With my clients that is my job is to help find those hidden pockets of time that they didn’t know existed before. But when creating...

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Don’t Fall In Love With The Potential Of Stuff

The warning for you creative types is to not fall in love with potential. You know what I mean. Where a box of old door handles could be a future coat rack.  Or a old door can be painted and turned...

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Spring Flinging

If you live in the upper portion of the county you are probably experiencing a phenomena that we like to call Spring Cleaning. This is not something that is experienced all over the country. You find...

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Organize Your Socks And Underwear

I realize that not everyone has an organized sock and underwear drawer. I realize that most people just throw them in a drawer and call it good. Sometimes not even matching the pairs of socks….the...

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Junk That Junk Drawer

Today’s challenge has to do with those elusive junk drawers. We all have them, some may have more than others. They are the drawer where things get thrown when you don’t know where something goes. But...

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The Voice In Your Head

We finished our Spring Fling Challenge this week and it was a great success. For 21 days I gave tips on my MS. Simplicity Facebook page for little challenges. Many items were flung and many homes were...

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What To Do With Your Messy Child

  So what do you do if your child is messy and you fear their future as a star on the show “Hoarders”? First be realistic. Is it really that bad or are you just imagining it? Second, start being...

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Graduation Party Ideas

So I am almost a year away from having had my first child’s graduation party, a party that I had planned for a couple of years. You see, I have been going to graduation parties that my friends are...

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Flood Of Papers

The number one issue that I hear from clients is what to do with all that paper? They have stacks and stacks and sometimes boxes of it and they simply are paralyzed with fear and don’t know what to do...

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Skills I Want My Boys To Have

Raising children is a slippery slope at times. We have to compete against friends and the media and our busy schedules to try to mold and grow children into productive members of society. I have one...

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How To Get The Male Gender To Organize

I received a question on my MS. Simplicity Facebook page asking for help on how to organize husbands and sons. As a married mother of three boys and being surrounded by them for the last twenty plus...

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