November Newsletter

Happy Thanksgiving,

Removing clutter is a good way to start the organizing process and an important step in maintaining organization.  I'm sending this issue a few weeks early in order to put this timely checklist into your hands. 

Will you be entertaining family and friends in the next few weeks?  As a professional organizer, I don't recommend hiding the clutter behind closed doors and cabinets.  I know it's a tempting and easy solution but I've seen the frustration it leads to. 

Prepare your home for the holiday season with the following Clutter-Removal Checklist.   

• Make a good first impression.  Put away your shoes, purses, mail, and shopping bags that are cluttering the entrance to your home. 
• Walk around your house and round-up all the dirty dishes, wash them and scrub your sink. 
• Collect clothing in a laundry basket and take it to the laundry room.
• Enlist your children to gather up the toys and games and return them to their shelves, toy boxes or bedrooms.
• Walk through your house and toss trash into a bag. 
• Repeat with a recycling bag.  Plastic bottles, papers, soda cans, ect.
• Pick up newspapers and magazines.   Recycle the oldest issues and find a home for those you will truly read (be ruthless). 
• Clear your counters and dining room table.  Return items to their proper homes.  If they don’t have a proper home---call Jill for organizing assistance :)
• Put all the books, CD’s and DVD’s back on their shelves.
• Take one last look around for things that are out of place.  These are the odds-and-ends that gravitate to other rooms.  Collect them in a container and return them to the room they belong in.
• Bonus Tip:  If you have dead houseplants, now would be a good time to let them go.

Divide this list among family members and you will be clutter-free in no time.

If you enjoyed this issue, please pass it along to a friend.  

In Gratitude, 

Jill