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Top 10 Organizing Products for 2018

2018 Top Ten Organizing Products

Happy 2018! It is yet another year to try to get organized in your home and with your life. Organizing your home often takes the purchase of products such as containers, bins, and baskets. Products serve to maximize space, containerize items, and give a cluttered area a polished look.

When deciding on a product purchase, we all love to read the reviews of others, or get a recommendation from someone we trust before buying it. To help guide you as the new year begins, I have asked for recommendations from our Get Organized! professional organizers and our staff members. Some of the products mentioned may not be an actual container, but could aid you in getting organized. I will share my favorite organizing tools also.

Picture the Perfect Way to Organize Your Photos

How to Store and Organize Your Photos

by Lorraine Brock

Photographs, pictures, digital images. Whatever we call them, most of us have plenty. Some are displayed in frames on the wall, others are stored in photo albums and boxes, and some are stored on electronic devices. Our pictures create a photographic journal of where we have been and captures the memories we have enjoyed with loved ones.

How to Organize Everyday Coupons

Ways to Organize Everyday Coupons so They Are Handy

by Lorraine Brock

Most of us love saving money with coupons, but few like the work associated with finding good ones, organizing them, and remembering to use them when we shop. I, for one, have spent precious time clipping coupons and organizing them for my route through a store, only to forget to use them at the checkout.

How to Organize and Declutter Your Garage

Is the Clutter Bug Invading your Garage?

by Lorraine Brock

Winter is ending, spring is upon us, and the heat in some states is not far behind. This is the window of opportunity in my state of Texas to organize and declutter our garages. Garages have become multi-purpose spaces for most families. While they are meant to “garage” the second most important investment you own – your car – they have become overflow storage for household items, a place to store Craig’s List, eBay, and garage sale pieces you are planning to sell one day; and the home for lawn care, pool, and other outdoor products. Stop the madness!

Organize with Labels

How to use a label maker as an organization tool

by Lorraine Brock

Label Maker… if you don’t have one now, it’s time to get one! Label makers have so many functions in an organized home or office. They clearly identify items, define the home for items in your spaces, and they also clarify the owner of items so others do not take or eat them.

When I was growing up in the late 70’s, on grocery days my mom would bring home a six pack of 1 liter glass soda bottles. There were five members in our family and my mom would write the initials of each member of our family with a black marker on our own supply of soda. I still don’t know who got the sixth bottle, but that’s another story.

Since there were no fancy labels on the soda bottles back in the 70’s, the idea of labeling even our beverages made the ownership obvious. Other items around our home were labeled in a variety of ways; sometimes with masking tape and a black marker, often with a piece of paper covered with clear packing tape. Although not pretty, they were good solutions.