The Clutter Diet Blog

Check Us Out When You Check Out at the Supermarket!

Just can't help myself... I had to mention to my beloved blog readers to check us out in FOUR magazines this month! They are November issues but they come out in October, so they are all on the newsstands right now. When you're checking out at the supermarket, you can thumb through and find me!

• Nov. Better Homes & Gardens, page 78 (cover headline "12 Smart Ways to Organize Your Closet"- also features our product, the Simple Division® Garment Organizers)
• Nov. 1, Family Circle, page 147 (cover headline: "Declutter Your Life")
• Nov 3, Woman's Day, page 100 (cover headline "5 Clutter Busters- They'll Surprise You")
• Nov. Good Housekeeping, page 180, "21 Ways to Make an Entrance" (about entryways)

Also note-- I am doing a contest with Good Housekeeping right now where the big winner gets me in his/her house for two days with $1000 of products from the Container Store. Enter the contest here at http://budurl.com/ghclutter. Other prizes include memberships to our program, phone consultations with me, and autographed copies of my book The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. The contest entries close on November 30, 2009.

I hope you like the articles! Thanks for sharing my joy!

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Catching Up- Tons of Random Info!

There are so many things I want to say from the last few weeks--it's been hard to decide what to write next. So, I am going to just blurt out a bunch of things at once (and probably not do them all justice).  But I want to share all of this with you... and then I'll write a proper post.

• The High-Calorie Clutter post I wrote earlier was actually done in New York as a TV segment for Better TV (Better Homes & Gardens/Meredith Corporation--seen all over the USA). You can watch the segment here!
• Hilarious Heineken commercial about closets, sent to me by my good friend Sally Allen in Colorado: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0LgJo9Do-8 I think one of those guys is Tim from the British version of The Office...?
• Our Simple Division® Garment Organizers closet product was featured this week on the Rachael Ray show! They did a closet makeover segment and featured these clothes dividers very prominently. Thanks, everyone, for all the orders! They are available in our store here, or if you want you can pick them up at your local Container Store in the closet section.
• Speaking of Container Store, their famous January sale of 30% off Elfa continues through FEBRUARY 9th. So you still have time to get those closets done!
• My friends at WeekDate have a new product that is very clever. It's the "I Need From" shopping list, pictured here (click image for larger version). It allows you to have tabbed sections for different stores. I would have Costco, Target, HEB (Austin grocery store) and Other for my tabs-- how about you? I will give one of these away in a random drawing next week-- to enter, write a comment here on this post!
• Speaking of Costco... I am interviewed in an article for the newest Costco Connection magazine (February issue). They did a great job telling people about my new book, and I really appreciate that! You can read the article here. If you have the magazine, I'm on page 28.
• My books are here! We are shipping 'em out. They will be in bookstores around March, but we have them now! If you were waiting because we were doing preorders, that time is over, so go ahead and get one. :)
• Organizing your pantry is one of the best things you can do to eat better in the new year. You can get organized, save money, and lose weight all at the same time! Thanks to Nicole at MomTrends for posting an article where I shared my tips for organizing your pantry.
• This blog is still holding up at #2 of all blogs available on the Amazon Kindle, above NY Times, Huffington Post, and the Onion! Thanks everyone! If you bought the new book on the Kindle, we are doing a new, improved version of that very soon that you can re-download for free if you have already purchased it. We are hyperlinking the Table of Contents and working on some of the images that needed to show up better on the Kindle.

OK, as you can see, there was a lot of random stuff to share. Now, back to our regular programming. :)

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Welcome, Amazon Kindle Readers!

Welcome to our new readers who have joined us via the Amazon Kindle device! (image here from Amazon's Kindle Photo Gallery) I am very excited because it takes a really long time to get listed on the Kindle-- our blog got approved almost a year ago! Kindle owners can subscribe to our blog for just 99 cents. Click here to read more about it on Amazon. The Kindle is a reading device that many consider the wave of the future-- you can buy books on it and instantly download them, and you can get popular blogs and major newspapers on it too.

For the benefit of all new readers, I would like to highlight some of our favorite posts from the last 2 years:

• Neat Does NOT Equal Organized
• Material World: What is Your Most Valued Possession?
• Gutter Ball Days
• Resign Yourself to the Inevitable
• Ode to Binder Clips
• How to Look Like a Model
• How to Choose a Custom Closet Company
• Three Approaches to Tackling Your Closet
• National Clean Out Your Computer Day (last February 12)
• Cooler Than Cool- Google SMS
• Sudden Hard Drive Crash!
• Organizing Your Passwords- Be Safe!
• Lorie's Garage Floor Makeover!
• Are You More Organized at Work than at Home?
• Wall-E is a Great Organizer

If you like my blog, please take just a moment (even if you are NOT a Kindle subscriber) and write a review of my blog on the Amazon page for me. I would truly appreciate the love!! Click here to see this blog's page on Amazon.

Thank you!

CNBC's Big Idea with Donny Deutsch Blog- Results from Atlanta

When I appeared on Donny Deutsch's show in August, you may remember that I was going to Atlanta to help my fellow guest, Britt Menzies of StinkyKids.com. Wait 'til you see what we did! Yesterday they posted my writeup of our results on The Big Idea Blog. You can read my description of our work there and see our video, or you can just watch the video here... This first video shows our appearance on the show, with some footage of Britt's house and everyday life of a mompreneur. They had her first talk to a stress expert and then talk to me toward the end. (click here if you can't see the embedded video player)

And now... the after! Britt and I documented our work and made a little video to show you our before & after. She no longer offices in her bedroom! I have to chuckle because on this video (at about 1:10) Britt accidentally almost says "...at night, go to bed in my office..." and then corrects herself to say bedroom! We rearranged her husband's large home office so that they could share it, and it worked out beautifully for their family. (Click here if you can't see the embedded video player)

I want to make sure to give public thanks to my fellow organizer Jaye Gennuso in Atlanta who worked with us side-by-side for a very long day and more! We could not have accomplished anything close to this without her help. Hope you enjoyed it!