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Clutter, Clutter, Time to De-Clutter!
Clutter, clutter, clutter! It seems like it is everywhere – the topic gracing the cover of every magazine cover with the latest solutions on how to organize your closet or home, to the thoughts late at night that clutter our mind as we try to fall asleep. Oftentimes it greets us as we walk into […]
Announcing our Partnership with The Container Store
Deb and I are so excited to be one of The Container Store’s exclusive Contained Home® providers serving the Greater Boston and metro-North area in addition to being Ship Shape Organizers! What does this mean? It means we have visited The Container Store corporate headquarters in Dallas, TX for a 3 day training session and […]
Organizing Your Wallet
Not to think worse case scenario, but oftentimes a little helpful planning can make a bad situation at least palatable. My daughter recently left her wallet in the seat pocket of an airplane. She didn’t realize it until a few days later, and I’m happy to report after a call to Jet Blue, we were […]
Too Much Paper!
Do you dump your mail on the kitchen counter when you walk in the door? Do bills get lost and go unpaid? We suggest having a specific mail sort center so you put your mail in the same location every day. Better yet, take 5 minutes to open it. Have a recycle basket and a shredder […]
Closet Organization: How to become “unstuck”
Through the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) we have access to many CD’s of the guest speakers from the NAPO annual conference. I just finished listening to a Psychologist who spoke about “stuckness”. What a great word even if you can’t find it in the dictionary! My guess is we all face […]
Snow Days…a perfect time to organize.
It looks like most of us survived the blizzard better than expected, and we were very happy we didn’t lose power! Between shoveling and snow blowing, it was a perfect day to get organized and deal with some household projects. Deb has a really big driveway so she spent a lot of the day behind the snow […]
Organizing Goals
Happy New Year! Have you set some goals for yourself this year? My guess is that many of you have an organizing project that has been challenging you and is now on your to-do list for 2015. Is your resolution to commit time to organize your closet, playroom, or garage? If you can accomplish it on […]
Organizing your Shoes
We visited The Container Store the other day (one of many several in one week) and decided to pull out our camera and show you a few things that we especially like. You can visit our You Tube channel, just please don’t critique our speaking/acting skills! They are not representative of our organizing skills! Deb […]
Repurpose your Household Items
In the realm of organizing, there are many tricks to the trade some which are original and some that we all pick up from magazines and others along the way. At Ship Shape Organize we always like to use what clients have before rushing off to The Container Store or Target to purchase bins and […]
Organizing Bags and Pocketbooks
When organizing your bags, first categorize them by color. Color is typically the first criteria when choosing which bag to use, after that you can sort by smaller clutches, pocketbooks that are better suited to daytime use vs. pocketbooks that are more suitable for evening events, and finally your more casual tote bags. Of course, […]