Well, 2022 certainly didn’t ease on in the back door, did it? 2021 Wasn’t hard enough? Is it time for a little self care? I bet you’ve never thought of being organized is way to give yourself more self care, have you? It seems like everywhere you look, see, or hear the buzz work is …
Is your furry friend your best friend? Sometimes your best friends can tell you things that others can’t right? Here’s some thoughts about why your dog thinks you might need to hire an organizer… The best part about life as a dog is that your goal in life is to make people happy. My human …
We see it all over Social Media these days: “What would you tell your younger self about ____?” As a professional organizer I work with families and people at all ages and stages. I frequently get asked if I am naturally organized. Well, I am, Kinda….but I wasn’t born that way, Here’s some things I …
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One of the hardest tasks for us sometimes is getting kids’ lunches together now that school is in session. Whether they are back to school in person or winging it at home, lunchtime doesn’t have to be a chore if you let your kids make their own. Getting them set up for success in the …
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What Happened to It? I saw this quote the other day and it really resonated with me: “Summer should get a speeding ticket”. I cannot believe we are almost at Labor Day! If you know me, you know that this California girl is ALL about Summer: Ice Cream, the beach, long days, outdoor movies, and …
So, this week has been a whirlwind in the Collins house, with a major medical emergency that meant me being at the hospital for the last 7 days as my husband navigated a very nasty life-threatening infection. As I sat there watching him fight for his life, the thought occurred to me that one of …
Trust me, we all have them. You know what I mean…the places where we “stuff” things until we find the time or place to put them away properly…. Paper Stuff: Maybe your filing system, bill paying area, mail sorting place, etc is too far away or inconvenient to get to quickly. Or it may be …
Post Pandemic Organizing Challenges 16 months later do you feel like this? How Did we Get Here? Where did all this stuff come from? It seems like lately I have been working with a lot of clients who feel like they were very organized and then turned around and realized that their items had gotten …
I think we can all agree that the past 18 months have been rough. I don’t know about you, but my family will remember 2020-21 as a period of time when everything was just a lot harder than it probably needed to be. I have been really busy in this business, despite (or maybe because …
If you know me at all you know that I don’t just enjoy the game, I am passionate about baseball…. (blame my brothers, yes I even played it when I was younger), and April can’t come fast enough for me every year (last year by the way was brutal if you were a baseball fan). …
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