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How to Set Up a Receipt Organizer with an Accordion File {with Video}
If you had good intentions of getting organized in the new year but didn’t know where to start for setting up a system for filing receipts, don’t feel bad. Here is a video that will help make a receipt organizer for all of your paper receipts. Watch the video below to find out how to set up a receipt organizer with an accordion file. Are you having a hard time keeping up with all the paper clutter? Let’s tackle your home organization project one piece at a time. Today we’ll start with an easy and fast system for organizing all of your receipts. A receipt organizer is one home system…
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13 Packing Supplies You Can't Move Without
Although many people dread the thought of packing, it can be a much less painful experience if you have the right tools for the job! Having the right packing supplies is essential.
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Emergency Preparedness for the Pantry: Checklists To Get You Ready
When it comes to emergency preparedness for the pantry, there is never a case when being prepared isn’t helpful. Whether there is an earthquake or you lose your job and have to live off your pantry, better safe than sorry. Are you ready?
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5 Problem Areas – What Keeps Me From an Organized Life?
Just because someone asks you to do something, be a part of a committee, donate your time, money, whatever DOES NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO SAY YES!
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Why Get Organized?
Being organized = less stress. Wouldn’t you love to be able to describe your life as efficient and coherent?
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My Address Labels Amazed the State Fair!
My Address Labels Amazed the State Fair! As a lover of all things efficient, my quest is never-ending to find new efficiencies that make life easier for people. Work systems and home systems are one thing, but what about fun systems? Is there a way to make recreational activities, such as the state fair or county fair, less work and more play? You bet! State fairs are filled with tons of wonderful drawings, sign-ups and giveaways. With the opportunity to win free things comes the task of writing your name and address over and over again on all those signup sheets. Before you start imagining the writer’s cramp and wasted…
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Exercise Equipment Turned Clutter Catcher
Exercise Equipment Turned Clutter Catcher I have a treadmill and an elliptical workout machine in my bedroom. Unlike a lot of people, I LOVE my exercise equipment and feel lucky to have it in my home (it was a great Christmas present from a relative). However, after an injury I couldn’t use the cardio equipment anymore, and started piling stuff in front of it. Whether the workout machines are in use or not, none of that stuff belonged piled on the floor! So the work began… Most of these items did have homes, they just weren’t in them! Of course some of the stuff had no place to go, which…
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Organizing Under the Bathroom Sink
While making my Summer Projects List, I added “clean under the bathroom sink” to the list. It hasn’t been done in a long time and was definitely overdue. When you have to push things back to fit in a new item, it’s time to purge! I made half of the products under the sink disappear. There were many duplicates: 2 mousses, 2 curling sprays, 4 hairsprays (2 pump, 2 aerosol)… They were piled behind other things and I didn’t even know they were there! I had to exercise some serious Product Control (only 1 of each thing open and in use; put the rest in the pantry). Many things had…
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Box Tops For Education Holders
Box Tops for Education Refrigerator Holder Let’s organize another one of the messiest things in the kitchen / dining room area today. Today we’re going to make a permanent home for your little Box Tops. Box Tops for Education, Betty Crocker points, UPCs for rebates, Campbells Soup Labels: all these items come off of packages which are usually kept in the kitchen. Without a system for storing for these little cut-out labels while waiting to turn them in or redeem them, they can get scattered or lost and possibly never used. Instead of letting them end up in multiple places, create a permanent home for these items that your whole…
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Conquer the Paper – Pt 2
If you missed last week, I am participating in The Lazy Organizer’s SMART Habit Saturday! I chose one new habit to work on and report back with my progress each Saturday. My habit for April is scanning. If you missed it, read about my project from last week. I am digitizing all paper in our house (receipts, manuals, magazine articles, report cards). Scan it and toss it is my motto! My new habit includes scanning old papers for 10 minutes each morning, and scanning all new papers that come into the house immediately (such as mail). I am tired of paper RULING MY LIFE! The files, piles, and boxes of…