I remember growing up that my Dad had a wallet the size of Texas stuffed in his back pocket. I think every receipt from everything he had ever bought was being stored in there, along with a plethora of credit cards, work ID’s, insurance cards, business cards, and pictures of us kids. His back [...]
This is a post that originally appeared on one of my other sites, Simple. Organized. Life. .
I cannot believe I have not used this product before last week. Wow, just wow. If you have never heard of Evernote, you are going to want to investigate it very soon. Basically, it’s a free (there is [...]
Although I wrote part of this post over 2 years ago, the techniques still stand for how to get started in cleaning up and eliminating clutter in your home. I am a big believer that decluttering can make you feel better and ease a lot of stress in your life, but that might [...]
Since it seems as though I am the “guru” of organization in my family (not just my immediate family, but the whole thing!), a lot of times when I offer advice to people about clearing out their junk I hear “But I paid so much for it, how could I get rid of it!“. [...]
No one thinks it will happen to them – a complete computer crash. In fact, knock on wood, it has never happened to me…yet. But someday, it probably will. Years ago I started backing up my computers once a week, so if it did happen the most I could lose would be a single [...]
You know you have piles of them – tax returns, insurance documents, old bills, receipts, and bank statements. But what can you do with them other than throw them in a box to deal with later? Do you even need to save any of them any longer? Lucky for you, I just [...]
If you have already used up your free credit reports for 2008 (I have one more to use in the last quarter of the year), a settlement of a class-action lawsuit that was filed against Transunion lets you get your report and your score, as often as you want, for 6 months. Transunion [...]
In preparing for our move, we are doing our normal “how in the world do 2 people acquire this much stuff?” dance, and we are clearing out our neglected closets and cabinets in order to pare down our belongings. For someone with OCD like myself (not diagnosed, mind you, just claimed), I don’t know how [...]
Seeing as how my mom is here and it always costs a good chunk of change when people come visit, I figured some tips from this article at Life Organizers was very timely!
1. Keep your financial records organized and your filing up to date. Have a set of file folders for items such [...]
Because we are away camping this week, the following is a guest post from Emily over at Remodeling This Life. If you like what you see here, won’t you consider subscribing to her feed?
Is your workspace chaotic? Can’t find things when you need them? Are you wasting time and feeling stressed because your home working [...]
Because we are away camping this week, the following is a guest post from Mike over at Four Pillars. If you like what you see here, won’t you consider subscribing to his feed?
One of the more popular concepts with respect to budgeting is the idea that you should write down every single financial transaction. Every [...]
I am a big believer in clearing out clutter in order to manage my life. Having everything in it’s place and organized allows me to concentrate 100% on the rest of my life; my wife, my work, my friends, my hobbies. If I lived in clutter I would never be able to stop [...]
With January 2008 right around the corner, many people start to think of things that they can make New Year’s Resolutions. And let’s be honest – most of us never stick to them. But this year can be different if you focus on only one or two thing that you really need to [...]
In recent years, the organization fad has really taken off, with stores popping up all over selling $25 plastic boxes for you to “contain” the things you own. Have you ever stepped foot into one of these stores? 100,000 square feet of plastic boxes, bins, buckets, drawers, bags, and anything else you could imagine, [...]
A few weekends ago, my wife and I decided to set up a basket in our hall, tucked under an alcove, that will be the “Give Away” pile. Both of us are always coming across things in the house that need to go to Goodwill or wherever, and since we never had a place [...]
