02.13.10
Posted in business organizing at 3:07 am by Administrator
February 12th worked 6 hours in a business office for a manager. He had so many binders, paperwork, catalogs, etc. We organized all the binders in the same category on the bookshelves and cleaned out the ones that were out of date by recycling the binders and paperwork. Bought banker boxes and put old payroll, budgets and some accounts in their individual boxes.
Cleaned out the paper office supplies and got rid of the old forms and organized again by categories such as paper, folders, laminate, etc. on top of each other in a nice stack.
There was a recycle garbage can that holds about 500 lbs and it was overflowing. It felt so good to get rid of the outdated paperwork and only put on the shelves what was current. Boxes 7 banker boxes of payroll and made room in the file cabinets. I cleaned and wiped down the shelves and cabinets so it was clean and looked nice. Back tomorrow for another 6 hours to finish. Another person organized in the world!
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02.12.10
Posted in About Me at 3:57 am by Administrator
Debbie on Radio station
February 6th I was honored to speak on the Radio Station 1500 AM at 3:00 to speak about my organizing business and my function at Imago Dei Crisis Pregnancy Center . I am on the board of trustees and have been a volunteer for 10 years. What I do there is teach file organization class to ladies and teens on how to file. They have not learned how to file in school and some of them have never filed before or know how to put a tab on a hanging folder.
I also teach simple organizing skills such as quick 15 minute pickups, time management on shopping and using a hampers. (You would be surprised how many clients don’t own one).
National Association of Professional Organizers has a Quantum Leap program and they donate all the colored file and hanging folders. The students will learn how to file the rest of their life.
When all the donations come in, we sort by boy, girl, summer, winter and sizes. Put the outfits together and put in a plastic bin or hang them up. This is an on-going process and the donations keep coming in.
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02.05.10
Posted in Organizing with bins at 12:15 am by Administrator
February 3rd organized spices in the kitchen cupboard with 3 bins consisting of one for baking spices, everyday spices and 3rd for oil and vinegnars. When baking, take out the whole bin and all your spices are in one place. You don’t have to lift up each spice bottle to see what each label is.
Went into the bathroom and put 2 bigger bins under the sink with the first every day bin of hair products, curling irons and blow dryer. Second bin with lotions, makeup bag and beauty products. Put all the nail polish, files and remover in a container together, traveling hang up bag with products to go and excess products into another container. She did not have a linen closet so put them on the top of her closet.
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02.04.10
Posted in business organizing at 11:54 pm by Administrator
February 3rd…..Second appointment was a free assessment at a business office. It takes a big man to admit that he needs help with the clutter of 100 binders, paperwork piled with months and years sitting on a shelf. Needs help with so many documents on the computer and can’t find what he needs when he needs them. Recommended making folders and then dragging them into it. Name the folders that make sense to you so you can relate to looking for them.
He is ordering colored folders as a visual aid for each department will have its own color. When looking for a file, looks for the color and can find immediately. I took a tour of the business so I can understand the process, names of the equipment, machines and parts to better organize and what to purge.
Came home tired due to I am still jetleg and my wonderful son who works for a restaurant cooked me dinner. Spent some time with my 3 1/2 year old granddaughter and gave her the gifts from my trip. Caught up on my email, blog and looking for a laptop for one of my clients. Going to bed soon for another day of organizing tomorrow. Sweet dreams!
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Posted in About Me at 11:45 pm by Administrator
February 4th…Felt that I was coming down with something from my vacation in CA and Dallas. Been in bed most of the day and just resting on the couch, catching up on emails and watching TV.
Hope that I feel better tomorrow since I have a full day with a client, free assessment and taking my grandaughter to my mothers.
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01.23.10
Posted in Clients Challenges at 5:49 pm by Administrator
I had the blessed opportunity to work for a famous author who has wrote several books, life coach, has been on TV several times and famous in the motivational speaker realm. She had a flood in her living room and damaged all of her marketing material which estimated to $35,000. It took years for her to get paid for her loss. During that time she lost her interest in her goals and became stuck in her mind to go further. Clutter started to build up and depression set in. That was when she called me for help. She said that she was humbled and hit rock bottom.
We started in her walk in closet that was turned into a file room, office supplies and promotions. We took 1 box at a time, labeled each drawer and put the paperwork where it belonged. After we worked several hours, she got the hang of it and started to work on her own. I worked in her retreat room, cleaned up the clutter and made it beautiful for her to read in with peace and serinity.
A couple of weeks went by and she had most of the boxes gone through and organized in the correct areas. She surprised me and ran with it and kept it up. Her last session when I walked in her house, all the clutter was cleaned up, she went through her closet and donated bags of her clothes and the rooms looked like better homes and gardens. I was so proud of her and it gave me satisfaction to see what I taught her hit home and her organizing skills came out of her to continue the process.
My last session she had pictures in the closet that were not hung in years. I hung up several pictures in several rooms and it gave that finished look. Organized her linen closet and found things she did not even know she had and was looking for it. (I hear this same story all the time). She mentioned that doors have been opened for her and was able to work again like she used to and getting calls for talk shows, speaking engagements and a new persepective on her business. I had no idea that organizing with a 6 1/2 hour package would do all that. I went home feeling I was on cloud 9 and satisfaction that my client got it! I wish her all the success in the world and another person in the world has found the peace of mind to achieve her goals again!
Professional organizers can help in more ways than just clean up the clutter. We can unclutter your mind, give your life back and start a new life!
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Posted in About Me at 5:21 pm by Administrator
January 22nd woke up with coffee, while watching the news and then my daughter woke up and we chatted for about 2 hours. We got dressed, went out to lunch at Cheesecake Factory and ordered a lunch salad which was big enough for a family. They have the best cheesecake in the world and now they have the calories next to the name of the cake. Carrot cake was over 1500 calories for a large slice and the terimusu cheesecake was 890 calories which is my favorite.
It was raining pretty hard on and off the entire day. My daughter and I walked to the Ultra cosmetic store and bought some cosmetics. They sell everything in California and you can find what you need. We came home and took a nap and I worked on the computer and watched TV the rest of the night.
One of my clients joined Twitter and is trying to expand her business and she wanted me to look at 368 followers tweets and find out if there were any opportunities. She did get an offer to speak on a radio station. It took me 2 hours to go through the list and check out their site and delete.
My daughter went to work at the hotel restaurant at 7:30 and came home after 2:30 a.m. Went to bed after the news and then I could not sleep. Jet leg is still in effect.
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01.22.10
Posted in About Me at 4:51 am by Administrator
January 21st woke up at 8:00 and 11:00 Detroit time. Drank coffee with my daughter, talked for about 2 hours and went back to bed for 2 more hours. Jet leg is really hard on me and it takes me a week to get accustomed to it and when I get home it is time to switch back again. 3 hour difference is tough.
We got dressed, went to lunch, I went shopping in Newport Beach and drove my daughter to work who works at a exclusive hotel in Newport Beach. While shopping there was hardly anybody shopping in a very expensive and exclusive mall. The prices were so outrageous that I did not find what I was looking for. Michigan has them beat with bargains.
After a couple of hours of shopping I tried to start the car and it was dead! I left the lights on by mistake and wore down the battery. It is a good thing that the hotel is walking distance from the mall and met my daughter in the hotel restaurtant where she works. I ate my dinner which writing my blog and catching up on email.
She just left with a security guard to pick up the car and get it jumped. We will go home and watch the Orange County Housewives.
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Posted in Clients Challenges at 4:38 am by Administrator
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01.13.10
Posted in Organizing Bedroom & Closet at 2:25 am by Administrator
Today January 11th I spent 6 hours at a clients house and organized 3 of her closets. She just moved and everything was just hung up in the closets when she move and nothing was organized. I decided to make 1 closet with her expensive dress clothes, 2nd closet casual clothes and the 3rd closet summer clothes.
I categorized each kind of clothing such as slacks, sweaters, tops, etc. and then by colors from black to white and all the other colors in between. She did not realize she had 15 pairs of black dress slacks and 5 pairs of black casual pants. She needs to do some donating and it will be easy seeing how many she has of each color. We did not get a chance to donate since she was’nt home most of the day and I worked on my own.
When taking your clothes out of the closet, put the hanger in the hamper so when you wash it you can hang it up. Hangers take up a lot of room in the closet, so take them down when wearing the outfit .
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