Home Organization Skills by Jan Ferrante

This morning as I was standing at the microwave rewarming my coffee, I decided to do something. Literally. I punched in 40 seconds and instead of just standing there, I decided to do a 40 second clean up of some clutter that was left on my kitchen yesterday. At the end of 40 seconds, it was gone.

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Over the weekend I noticed my 15 year old daughter doing odd things. She was throwing bottles in the recycling bin. She was asking for the paper shredder because she had paper to shred in her room. Finally I had to ask. What the heck is going on???

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I have been 3 long years in the process of getting the Queen of KAOS Life Systems Manual polished up and ready to go.
One day I realized that the heart of the system that I use every day consisted of one chapter of the book.
It was ready so I thought, why not release […]

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n honour of the fresh spring day we are having - NOT! I am thinking that today would be a good day to declutter with some spring freshness in mind. What is stale and boring in your house?

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I’m pumped this week because I started on the Spring Into Spring Cleaning Challenge yesterday, and the first day was a declutter day. So I am all ready to roll with the great results that I got. I took a picture of the booty.

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This week I am going to bite the bullet and declutter the fridge, it is in dire need of some attention. Having a clean fridge not only looks better, but it is healthier to be able to find good food! And it’s so much more motivating to open a fridge that looks inviting.

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Is spring cleaning time a time that you enjoy as you renew and refresh your house in the fresh spring air?
Or is it something that you do because "it's that time of the year again".
When the weather is good, I enjoy it. But if it is a dismal spring with lots of rain and clouds, […]

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If your behind in your housework and would like to get things in shape for spring, stay tuned, I have some fun stuff coming up for a 6 week Spring Has Sprung Spring Clear Out to get things ready for summer so that we can be ready for the kids when they are on holiday instead of playing catch up right from the get go.

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I have been on a mission this past week to rid the house of cat and dog hair. Sleeping on a fur blanket wasn’t my idea of fun! Especially when it was supposed to be cotton!

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This week I'm going to switch gears a bit and get back to finishing up some "to do" baskets that I never got "to do". 
I cleaned massive amounts of paperwork out of my office over the holidays, but I stopped short of a few important baskets, so I'm going to park it today and go […]

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