Organizing Your Home

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7 Tips to Maintaining a Tidy Toy Room

In my last post, we talked about organizing a toy room. Now that you have put the time and energy into creating order in the playroom, you’ll want to make sure it stays that way. Here are my tried and true tricks to maintaining order in what could become the messiest room in the house if ignored. Have a…

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7 Tips to Taming the Playroom

I didn’t have a lot of toys as a child, but I did get a lot of play value from the ones I had. My favorites included Newborn Thumbelina (pull the string and her head and body wiggles) and a couple of Barbie dolls (probably not the real Barbie but one of the many knock…

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Conquering Your To-Do List

How many times have you tripped over that mess by the front door? Is the drip, drip, drip of the bathroom faucet keeping you up night after night? What about that kitchen cupboard that never seems to stay closed? I don’t know about you, but I never seem to be completely free of those minor…

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Sentimental Attachment: It’s Not About the Stuff

When I was a little girl, I had a fuzzy chocolate-brown teddy bear with oversized, expressive plastic eyes. I called him Luli and I slept with him every night, for years. Like many people, I was attached to the stuffed animal I had as a child.   If it’s not a stuffed animal for you,…

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Tackle Your Keepsakes:How to Organize & Preserve Your Mementos

We all have them – bits and pieces of memorabilia piled high in corners or hidden in plastic bags. Does the thought of organizing them seem completely overwhelming to you? If it does, you are not alone; many of my clients stuggle with how to sort and organize their keepsakes. Below are some effective methods I’ve come across for…

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