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by Carrie Greene, CarrieThru, LLC, Coach & Professional Organizer

A client of mine sent me a “pearl of wisdom” which defined “junk” as something that you’ve kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it. Who makes this stuff up? Probably the Chief Marketing Officer of the Container Store!

How do you decide what to keep and what to get rid of? Do you keep things because a family member, friend, or advertisement tells you to? Outside views don’t always recognize the value, or lack of value, something may have to you.

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by Janet Barclay and Jennifer Kubilis

When starting out, it’s not uncommon to personally handle all the work involved with running your business, but if all goes well, you’ll reach a point where it makes more sense to pay someone else to perform some of the administrative functions, so you can devote more time to serving customers and generating more income. In many cases, bookkeeping is the one of the first tasks to be delegated.

Unless you’ve been well trained, a qualified bookkeeper will be able to process your paperwork more efficiently than you and make sure that all income and expenses are recorded appropriately for income tax purposes. Keep in mind, however, that for your bookkeeper to do his or her job accurately, it’s up to you to provide all required information. Since you are likely paying for the service by the hour, it is also in your best interest to make sure that your paperwork is organized in a way that your bookkeeper doesn’t have to spend a lot of time going through it all to figure out what everything is.

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by Pamela Cole Harris

When you call 911 because there is a distinct and suspicious odor in the neighborhood and the culprit turns out to be two pairs of sneakers, three pairs of underwear and a dozen or more hotdog remnants of unknown origin and vintage found under your child’s bed, it’s past time to get your child’s room organized! When your child has gotten lost for hours in the mounds of clutter trying to find his way from the bed to the door, it’s past time to teach your child to organize himself! But if you haven’t reached that stage yet, there is still hope!

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by Susan Kruger

It is 6:00 AM…you have already hit the snooze button twice and are dreading the morning marathon that lies in front of you. Making sure everyone is dressed and ready for school is enough of a process, especially when everyone is bleary-eyed (and oh-so cheery) at the very beginning of the day. Soon the chaos begins… “Mom, where are my shoes?” “I can’t find my homework!” “Did you sign my field trip form?” Everyone is scurrying around trying to get ready while you are sweating over being late…again.

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by Jan Hayner

A woman that I recently worked for had a real mess in her home, at least SHE though so. She woke up one morning and could not find anything that she was looking for. By the time that she placed the call and I answered the phone, she was a jumble of nerves, crying and thought she was a totally disorganized lousy homemaker.

Believe me; this scenario is replayed more times than you may think. We get so overwhelmed in life that we don’t realize that our world is turning to clutter until one fine day when we are totally lost. Then it hits us, “I need the help of a Professional Organizer”!

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by Virginia Bola

None of us ever feel that we are going to be out of work for very long. We jump into looking for work in as many directions as we can think of, confident that we will find a suitable position quickly, and move on with our lives.

A few weeks pass and we see that we have been pursuing leads willy-nilly and often can’t quite remember where we applied and the details of each position.

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by Jan Hayner

We all run out of storage areas in our home, it doesn’t make any difference if you have a small efficiency apartment or a large 2500 square foot home. Do you know that you have a lot more room than you thought you did to store things and still be able to keep things organized?

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by Jan Hayner

Getting Started:

1. Look at the all-over picture of your home or hire a professional organizer

Go through every room and decide what it is that you want to do with that room and write it down.

2. See if you can find any hidden storage areas in your room

Decide if you want to add another shelf in the closet, use the storage space on the inside of a door, maybe use under the bed storage.

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by John Morris

Records management is one of the most important elements of good business management, and there are several instances when you need to destroy your records for the good of your customer and for your own protection.

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by Judy Hardaway

Christmas is busy, fun, exciting, and sentimental. We love it all — all but the part when we have to clean up and put everything away. While it may be tempting to just throw everything into boxes and worry about sorting it out next year, you’ll be sorry when a precious Christmas DECORATION or ornament gets lost or broken. Following these 10 tips will help you:

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