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Lessons in Letting Go – Learning from my daughter
One person cannot tell another person what should be important to them. Recently I found myself guilty of trying to impose on my daughter my ideas of what might be relevant to her, and had to catch...
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New Organizing Products from the International Home and Housewares Show – Part 1
Forgive my lapse in posting, I'm just returning from two trips - one a vacation with family to explore Washington, D.C., and the other a trip to Chicago for a trade event - the International Home and...
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New Organizing Products from the International Home and Housewares Show – Part 2
As promised in Part 1, here are a few more nifty sanity savers from the International Home and Housewares Show. As a product developer myself, I delight in seeing products come this far. So much work...
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It’s Tax Time: Do you know where your receipts are?
Short and sweet post today to make a simple point. Make it easy to collect and find your tax receipts by creating one easy to access home for them. Then, without fail, make sure every time a receipt...
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Best Mother’s Day Gift Ever? – A little more time every morning with an...
If you asked your mom what she really wants for Mother’s Day, she’d probably say more time…just one more hour in the day. So what if you could give her not only time every morning, but peace of mind...
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Crammed Kitchen Cupboards? Four ways to maximize your storage space
Most upper kitchen cupboards I see have empty spaces between the shelves or have items piled precariously on top of each other making access unwieldy. Does this sound like your kitchen? Here are a...
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Paper Planners – Five reasons why they won’t go away
While today’s electronic tools offer easy organization, sharing, portable storage and data backup, paper planners have several inherent advantages making them ever-popular, effective time management...
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Losing Things….Exactly Where You Left Them – A most embarrassing moment
-warning - this is a longer than usual post based on events that happened over the weekend... On Friday, I tweeted out gratitude for a fine end to a fabulous week. I had attended a Women of...
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Five Organizing Ideas for Deserving Dads
Stuck on what to get dad for father's day? Everyone appreciates their day going a little more smoothly. Here are a few ideas for organizing products to bring a little order to dad's world. 1. Valet...
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Bulletin Boards – How to choose the right board for you
With so much on the go, it is harder than ever to keep track of goals, deliverables, and due dates. For many of us, out of sight, is out of mind. Sticky notes in bold colours help command our...
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Organizing Challenges – My biggest home organizing challenge
My friends at Rubbermaid Canada asked me to think about answering the following question: “What do you have the hardest time organizing in your house?” Fair question. Even organizing professionals...
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Cool Tools for Back to School
If you're like most parents you're trying to strike a balance between supporting your kids and letting them figure things out on their own. Part of that is identifying what kids really need to be set...
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Learning to Let Go – Lessons from my daughter and a Bowie superfan
At nine, my daughter disclosed her self-diagnosis of "Letting Go Phobia". She enjoys her things and would rather keep most things than let them go even when she has outgrown them. She's onto...
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Organizing Your Workspace – 3D Decision making – Do, Delete or Designate
Who doesn't feel overwhelmed at least some of the time by the amount of incoming information? We are increasingly inundated with information, some of it very useful to us and critical to our...
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Hanging pictures – Ten tips to turn house into home
I just got back from a trip to Canada's stunning west coast and the spectacular Saanich Peninsula wherein lies Sidney, home to the island’s largest airport and ferry crossings, and one of the most...
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A little update about Pliio
As many of you know, I have spent much of the past few years nurturing an organizing product to take it from simply an idea discussed in my dining room to a real product. I thought I'd share a wee...
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An Organizer’s Take on the 2014 Interior Design Show
I have to admit, when I first started going to the Interior Design Show (IDS) in Toronto, I felt like I was crashing a party. IDS attracts leading designers in North America and vendors from around...
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No, Thank You! – How to handle gifts you don’t want
I love giving presentations to groups and learning about their organizing "pain points". One frustration that keeps coming up is receiving gifts that you don't want to keep. Oh the awkwardness! What...
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Get a Jump on Summer with a Handy Activity Planner
Every year it feels a bit premature to be thinking about summer camps and swimming lessons in February. I'm lucky to live in a city with well run day programs for kids and we've taken advantage of the...
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Organizing Your Workspace: 6 Tips to Turn Your Filing System into a ‘Finding’...
Time for a 'how-to' post to save you some time in the office. For incoming information that makes it past “delete”, we need a system to hold our active or “do” items and those we designate for...
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