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Clutter Video Tip: Clear Mental Clutter by Planning to Plan

Do you feel like your week is one of those nightmare halls that keep stretching and stretching out in front of you while you are stuck running in place? Then just when you get to the weekend time races right by you. While you can't control time, you can control how you spend it by watching this video.(Click here to watch on YouTube if you can't see the embedded player. Or watch the video at http://bit.ly/TCDPlan.)

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Organizing Kids' Bedrooms

  Do you keep the door shut to your kids' rooms just to preserve your sanity? Last time you threw something in there, did something throw it back? Consider the tips for kids' rooms of all ages in this week's Good Housekeeping Home Style blog.

What are your challenges with your children's rooms? Share in the comments!

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How Getting Organized at Home Saves You Time & Money Every Day

We all know home organization reduces stress and conflict, but best of all, it pays off in real dollars! In this post I wrote for Allstate's Good Hands Community, we'll look at a few areas of your house where you can realize some serious savings. Cha-ching!

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Clutter Video Tip: 5 Things You Probably Don't Know About File Folders

Is your filing keeping you from smiling? Do your stacks give you panic attacks because your files go on for miles? Watch this video to make your filing less tedious and painful and more efficient and gainful (and I promise to stop rhyming). ;) (Click here to watch on YouTube if you can't see the embedded player. Or watch the video at http://bit.ly/TCDFiles.)

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Save Money and Cool Off by Organizing Your Freezer

  Hot outside? Open the freezer, if you can... is it crowded and cluttered? Do you have UFOs (Unidentified Frozen Objects)? Organizing your freezer can save you time and money and cool you down all at the same time. I'll show you how in this week's Good Housekeeping Home Style blog.

 Let us know in the comments if we've inspired you to chill out!

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Clutter Video Tip: Take Out the Trash-- More Efficiently

Unless you are Oscar the Grouch, you probably don’t love trash. I'm no grouch, but I do love that you are throwing stuff away, because that means you are clearing space and hopefully getting better organized. Watch this video for five ways to take out the trash without being left holding the bag. (at http://bit.ly/TCDTrash) (Click here to watch on YouTube if you can't see the embedded player.)

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Lunch-Making Logic for Better Brown Bagging

We all know that packing lunches is a great way to save money, and you can save time for yourself, too, by not driving somewhere else during the work day. For efficient brown-bagging, you want to consider three things-- tools, process, and the food itself. Read this week's Good Housekeeping Home Style Blog. for tools, tips and menu ideas that are healthy for you and the planet.

What are your lunch-making tips and tricks? Share in the comments!

 

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Clutter Video Tip: How to Find Your Keys

Do you want the key to organizing success? Wait, did you say key? I wonder where I put my keys when I got to work/home/dear Aunt Mabel's... If any of this sounds familiar, you are not alone- next to your marbles keys are one of the most common items people lose. Watch this video (at http://tinyurl.com/TCDKey) to make getting out the of the door (and finding your marbles) a lot easier. (Click here to watch on YouTube if you can't see the embedded player.)

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Kids and Clutter: What to Teach Them About Organizing

Our children bring much joy to our lives, but it's hard to focus on that when you just stepped on another Lego with bare feet. Kids are the cause of much of our homes' clutter, so what can we do to prevent some of that, or at least feel better about how we're preparing them for their own adult lives? Find out in this week's Good Housekeeping Home Style Blog.

What are your favorite organizing lessons with your kids? Share in the comments!

 

 

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Are You Sabotaging Yourself with Humor?

When our Clutter Diet® members win our monthly Success Stories contest, they get some cool prizes, such as $100 from Rubbermaid and a 30-minute phone consultation. They send us photos to enter, and recently I saw a couple of them with these cute kitschy kitchen signs, some of which were really funny.

BUT... I don't want those signs to be there! They are negative messages masquerading as humor-- messages that continue to sustain someone's identity as an unorganized, messy person who doesn't have it all together. We are always talking about how important it is to reinforce positive messages when you are trying to change! (See previous posts,"The Mental Clutter of Defeatist Language," and "TRYING to Wish You a Happy New Year," among others)

Thoughts become words which become beliefs... I mean, I understand making a joke, but when you're really serious about making changes in your life, maybe these are not the jokes you should have around you every day.

Here are some examples of these funny signs I have collected on the internet. You can laugh for a second, but then consider the message that lingers:

• I’m creative; you can’t expect me to be neat too! (MESSAGE: Creative people can't be organized.)
• I clean house every other day…. Today is the other day! (MESSAGE: I don't keep a clean house.)
• If you write in the dust, please don’t date it! (MESSAGE: I am not going to clean for a long time.)
• I would cook dinner but I can’t find the can opener! (MESSAGE: I don't have it together to even cook a meal.)
• My house was clean last week, too bad you missed it! (MESSAGE: I am not going to clean again for a while.)
• A clean house is the sign of a wasted life. (MESSAGE: Cleaning and organizing is not a worthwhile activity.) 
• Dull women have immaculate houses. (MESSAGE: If I get things organized, I won't be an interesting person anymore.)

I vote for having this sign instead, from a great catalog called Femail Creations:

Are you sabotaging yourself with jokes like this at your own expense? Share in the comments!

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("Bless This Mess" photo above is a vintage wooden sign for sale on Etsy.)