Motivation

• Organizing Strategies

  Organize Your Organizing for Success

  Organizing your whole home can be overwhelming, but by prioritizing and breaking down projects into small doable tasks, it can be much easier.
• Money Saving

  Sticking to Your “Save Money” Diet

  Ten steps to saving money and keeping it saved.
• Motivation

  Get Organized to Achieve Your Goals

  Reaching your goals requires more than good intentions. Here's how to find your focus and break down your goals into achievable steps.
• Cleaning Strategy

  Messy Times And How To Handle Them

  At-home parties and other get-togethers can nearly triple the weekly cleaning time spent by women.
• Delegation

  The Art of Delegation

  Overloaded with things that need to be done? Learn how to take some of the load off by delegating effectively.

• Pest Control

  Creepy-Crawlies

  As temperatures get cooler, insects and other pests start looking for someplace warm and dry.
• Winterizing

  Winterize Your Home

  Prepare your home for winter before the snow starts falling.
• Motivation

  Fall Cleaning

  Didn’t finish your spring cleaning? Many experts insist that fall is best time to do a deep, thorough cleaning of your home.
• Organizing Strategies

  September Signals a Change in Seasons…

  As the season changes, we consider getting warm clothes out of the closet. But September is also a great opportunity to organize the closet.
• Simplifying

  Planning for school success

  Getting back into the back-to-school routine can be difficult, but starting early and planning ahead can make things easier.

• Organizing Strategies

  Pretty Neat - The Buttoned-Up Way to Get Organized and Let Go of Perfection

  Pretty Neat insists that women need to stop holding themselves to impossibly high standards, and focus instead on defining their own, realistic, organizational goals.
• Motivation

  Housework Blues

  How to cope with the mental and emotional challenge of keeping a home.
• Housekeeping

  DIRT: The Quirks, Habits, and Passions of Keeping House

  Collection of stories which take a multidimensional look at the universal challenge of keeping our personal spaces clean and uncluttered.
• Life Lessons

  The Philosopher Kings

  Full-length documentary that explores the lives of eight custodians, working at prestigious U.S. colleges and universities, and the wisdom and lessons they've acquired.
• Book

  Simplify Your Space

  Practical steps for organizing the spaces in your home using the C.A.L.M. approach.

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