I was on my way out the door today when I happened to check my text messages. I’m glad I did; I was alerted to the fact that the Vietnam Veteran’s Association was coming by to pick up the donation pile from my entryway.
I had set myself an e-mail reminder for yesterday morning, reminding me [...]
My organizing journey began in the fall of 2005 when a friend of mine called me with an interesting proposition.
“I think we should help each other get organized”, she said.
I was stunned. “Get organized? Help each other?” I asked. “How can I be any help to you at all? You’re pretty [...]
In my last installment on my entryway project, I talked about assigning homes to all of the things that live there — coats, hats, sports equipment, shoes, dressy clothes, and cold-weather gear.
Last Friday I packed up the books that I’m selling to Powell’s. I’m in the process of taking care of the [...]
Having sorted my stuff, it’s time to assign homes to my stuff. The dress clothes and the jackets already have homes on the coat hooks and in the closet. That leaves me three more categories to store. The first one is cold weather accessories:
Hats, gloves, scarves, an extra fleece vest, and [...]
This is the third post in my Organizing an Entryway series. I’m breaking it down into steps that are as small as possible to prevent ADD overwhelm.
Now that I can actually walk in my entryway, I’m ready for the third step of the process (and the first step of the SPACE process): sorting.
Sorting actually [...]