Archive for August, 2009
September Green Events: PC Recycler & NBC4 Shred Parties!
Drowning in paper clutter? Well, you’re in luck. Here are two shredding events scheduled for September 2009. Don’t miss them! **UPDATED WITH 4 NEW EVENTS** (9.10.09) Saturday, September 12, 2009 Fairfax County Recycling Roadshow · Navy Federal · Town of Vienna · Covanta Energy **New Event** Time: 9 am – 2 pm Where: Navy Federal [...]
Fun Fact Friday: Diamonds Are Not Forever
Cover via Amazon “The diamond, made from pure carbon and one of the hardest substances known, sublimes at an extremely high temperature, turning from a solid directly into a gas at 3,500 degrees Celsius.” [Contrary to Popular Belief: More Than 250 False Facts Revealed · Joey Green · The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group · 2005] [...]
Our One Year Anniversary
I can hardly believe it! It’s been a year (almost) since my first blog post. Wow. Would you believe that I didn’t really have any interest in blogging a few years ago? I thought it was pointless. And ruthless. I remember hearing about bloggers who would trash the people and subjects they talked about. I [...]
Before & After: Home Office
Got Office Clutter? Before After Related Articles by Zemanta Declare Your Independence from Paper Clutter! (creativeorganizing.typepad.com) Organizing, getting it scheduled. (multitaskingmoms.com) Quote for the Week: On Goals (stacksandstacks.com) //
Fact Friday: Balance
“At the end of the day, you have to consider what is most important in your life. When you put those things, what ever they may be, on the top of your priority list, everything else just falls into place. Sometimes all it takes is a little perspective.” [7 Habits of Successful Women · Molly [...]
“Hoarders” Revisited
On Monday night, a group of professional organizers on Twitter (along with others) tuned in to the A&E program, Hoarders. As I mentioned in the previous post, hoarding is a mental illness, a disorder that stops people from discarding things that you or I may dispose of easily. I have to be honest, even as [...]
Efficient Banking With Your iPhone
Image via CrunchBase A week ago, I heard about a new way to bank on Twitter (where else would I get breaking news?). With all the things we have to do in a given day, stopping off at the bank to make a deposit is just one more thing on our “to do” list. Well, [...]
A&E Explores The Lives of Hoarders
Image via Wikipedia Starting tonight, A&E will air the series, Hoarders. Each episode is described as “a fascinating look inside the lives of two different people whose inability to part with their belongings is so out of control that they are on the verge of a personal crisis.” Though hoarding may seem like an issue [...]
Fact Friday: Your Morning Mood
“How do you start your day? Calm or crazy? Your morning mood is contagious. Starting off on the wrong foot – the disorganized one – leads to hasty decisions, hurried breakfasts, and a harried family.” [Ready, Set, Organize! · Pipi Campbell Peterson & Mary Campbell · Park Avenue · 2002] Photo Credit: Google Images Buy [...]
Evernote as Problem Solver
Image via CrunchBase You already know how much I like using Evernote. Well, it turns out that they like me, too! The nice folks at Evernote invited me, along with a few other organizers, to write a guest blog post on how their service can help reduce clutter. Think you’ve got a few challenges that [...]
