Spice up Your Kitchen!

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Home Improvement stores are terrific! What was once only available as a custom job is now available to the masses. For example, pull-out drawers in kitchen cabinets. You can purchase and install a quick solution and avoid losing items items stored at the back of the cabinets. Other solutions include adding a spice rack organizer [...]

Tax Time Help is Here

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Most of us dread tax time. The W-2s arrive and we have a box full of receipts that need organizing in order to capitalize on any deductions. Here’s a product that can help you get your tax information together easily: Buttoned Up Tax Filer. View the video of this product to see how it can [...]

Car Organization 101

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According to a survey, 62 percent say their car is like another living space. For busy people on the go these days, it’s important to find solutions to containing clutter in our cars. Here are 3 simple solutions to eliminate trash and contain stuff: 1. Trash containers that are accessible (and emptied on a regular [...]

Time Management: A New Perspective

Time is finite! You can’t get more than what you’ve got. Unlike finances, where you can make more money, you can never truly get more time. Managing finances has always been a challenge for me; a challenge that has frazzled me just like getting organized frazzles others. As I assessed my situation, I asked myself, [...]

Kitchen Island Catch All?

Dear Stacey, My husband and I have a running battle over our kitchen island, it is his work space for unloading the groceries and cooking, but it is also my work space and he gets so frustrated when all of my stuff is there – but I hate being “kicked out” of our home’s major [...]

Kid’s Schoolwork: What to keep and where to put it

Dear Stacey, What to do with all of those papers and pictures the little lovelies bring home in their book bags? Will I want these someday? Do I simply throw them out? Where do I put them in the meantime? -Anonymous, Mt. Pleasant, SC Dear Mt. Pleasant Mom, It’s amazing how quickly kid’s paperwork builds [...]

Option for storing fine china

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With Thanksgiving coming soon, it’s time to pull out the formal china. Or maybe not. Depends on whether you’re staying home, going to friends or relatives, or choosing not to use the “good stuff.” So where is your china stored? In a breakfront or china cabinet, still in boxes from the last move (mine is), [...]

Crazy Afternoons with Homework

Dear Stacey, We are in the crazy phase of homework…..one 5th grader and one 3rd grader. I try so hard to keep the school supplies in order. We have more pencils and stationery stuff. Should I organize a spot in the kitchen just for these items? -Anonymous, Bergen County, New Jersey Dear Anonymous, Yes, when [...]

Save Time, Grocery Shop Online

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In large cities, like New York, grocery delivery is alive and well. In fact, it’s pretty much the norm. You don’t see people with handfuls of grocery shopping bags on the street or pulling carts behind them. You order online and then wallah, it’s at your door the next day. [However, I was told by [...]

This used to be a Family Room

A couple years back, I worked with a client who was about to put her house on the market to buy something bigger. Well, after decluttering and organizing her family room (and several other rooms in the house) suddenly, the need to move no longer existed. In fact, they liked their house and it felt [...]