The Clutter Diet Blog

Winners of the Save Time on Your Move Contest

Wow, we had a great response to our contest to give away 3 of our SpaceScaping® Kitchen Organizing System products!  Click here for the original contest post describing the product and how it helps you save time while moving.

I did a random number drawing yesterday for the winners. This screenshot below shows the random numbers that were selected (click to enlarge). I numbered the comments in the order they were received, and that's how we picked the winners!  They are "Ms. Smiley," Suzanne Harris, and "Margaret." I have contacted each of the winners via e-mail to let them know.

Thank you everyone, and have a wonderful weekend!

Save Time on Your Move with Our Contest!

It's that time of year again! People are loading up the truck and moving to new places and new spaces. I want to thank my friend Monica Ricci for showcasing our SpaceScaping® Kitchen Organizing System in her blog today! This is a product I developed after working on many move-in jobs with clients with boxes and boxes of kitchen stuff to unpack. The labels help you save time by planning your kitchen before unpacking everything and changing your mind... and then they help you find things faster temporarily until you get used to the new space. Monica advocates using them permanently on the INSIDE of the cabinets, so that others who might be cleaning or sharing your kitchen space can refer to the labels when putting things away. Great strategy!

In celebration of our appearance on Monica's blog, I will be giving away 3 sets of the SpaceScaping® Kitchen Organizing System labels to our readers! To enter, just comment here, and I will pick the winners by random number drawing on July 2nd. (one entry per person, please!)

I look forward to announcing the winners next week!

To Sell Your House-- Get Rid of Clutter!

Summer is "moving season," and there is a lot of organizing involved in preparing for and finishing up a move.  This morning I spoke to a group of real estate agents at the Keller Williams Southwest Office here in Austin. When I got home, I coincidentally found this very interesting article in my inbox, so in honor of my new real estate friends (hello!) here is a great article called "What Realtors Do to Their Own Homes Before Selling."  There is a pretty decent list there of some good advice for preparing a home for sale... but pay particular attention to these:

• "All clutter is removed from the front yard."
• "All clutter is removed (from inside the home)."
• "All clothes are placed in the drawers or neatly in closets."
• "The closets are reorganized so they appear larger."

I think there might be a theme there! I have moved our family 11 times myself in about a ten year period, and I have been working on an eBook for a while about moving.  Paid Clutter Diet members get a free preview chapter of my eBook entitled "Preparing Your Home for Sale."  Located in our member Knowledge Base, it's a 13-page checklist of items just like are mentioned in this article, but going even deeper, using my experience as a Professional Organizer and other tips from stagers and real estate professionals I have known.  I hope it will be useful to those people who are getting ready to sell!