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Why Create a Home Inventory?

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:24-06:00October 17th, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Planning|Tags: contents, downsize, estate planning, organized, stressful|

The main reason to create a home inventory as you may have suspected, is for insurance purposes. Whether you rent or own your home, purchasing insurance to cover a loss to your property is just a good idea. Setting up a household can be expensive. From the big-ticket items like furniture and major appliances, to clothes, home goods and home décor, all of this can cost a pretty penny! If you were to add up what you paid for all the big stuff, for instance, you could double that amount and you may get some idea of what it would [...]

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Hockey Storage Tips to Keep Families at Ease

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:24-06:00September 26th, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Storage|Tags: clutter, equipment, garage, gear, organized|

Do you or your kids play hockey? If so, is hockey storage an issue? I’m guessing that you have a lot of equipment - sticks, skates, pads, helmets, jerseys, pucks, etc. I’m also guessing that storing all this gear and keeping it organized can be challenging for many reasons. The biggest challenge for hockey storage may be location, location, location! You may have gear stashed all over the house, creating clutter and possibly damaging that expensive equipment. You need a significant amount of space that is out of the way, yet close to vehicles for quick loading and unloading. The [...]

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Swedish Death Cleaning is More About Decluttering Than Cleaning

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:26-06:00June 13th, 2018|Categories: Decluttering, Downsizing, Home Organization, Seniors|Tags: decluttering, discard, downsizing, seniors|

Swedish Death Cleaning, what is it? I’ve been hearing a lot about this lately and did some investigating, this is what I learned. A woman named Margareta Magnusson wrote a book called, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family From a Lifetime of Clutter. She wrote this book after she had to deal with the possessions of her parents and her husband after they passed away. The Swedish culture has a practice called döstädning - dö translates to death & städning translates to cleaning. The idea is not so much about cleaning as it [...]

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P.E.A.C.E. Step 5 – Evaluate

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:26-06:00May 30th, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Peace|Tags: decluttering, life changes, organizing process, routines, storage|

Several years ago, I wrote a post called, ‘Creating Peace at Home Through Organizing’. Click on the link to read the full article. The article explains why decluttering and organizing the spaces in your home is so important to achieve peace in your life. In that post I used the acronym PEACE to describe the five steps in the organizing process. The acronym was created to depict the result of organized spaces - peace. This post is the fifth and last in the series to provide more details for each step in the organizing process. You can read the first [...]

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Shredding Documents

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:26-06:00May 16th, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Paper Management|Tags: decluttering, documents, paper, shred events|

Shredding documents that are no longer needed and contain personal information, has become a part of the spring cleaning ritual. It makes sense, as mid-April is the deadline for filing income taxes. We accumulate copious amounts of paper year-round, and after filing our income taxes is a great time to purge the excess. Shredding Service - Free Typically, banks and credit unions hold free document shredding events after the tax deadline, some just before. These free events typically occur in April and May. They understand the importance of minimizing the amount of paper in our homes and our businesses. These [...]

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P.E.A.C.E. Step 4 – Containment; Storage Containers

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:27-06:00April 25th, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Peace, Storage|Tags: containers, decluttering, organizing process, storage|

Several years ago I wrote a post called, ‘Creating Peace at Home Through Organizing’. Click on the link to read the full article. The article explains why decluttering and organizing the spaces in your home is so important to achieve peace in your life. In that post I used the acronym PEACE to describe the five steps in the organizing process. The acronym was created to depict the result of organized spaces - peace. This post is the fourth in the series to provide more details for each step in the organizing process. You can read the first three steps [...]

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Options to Store Spices

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:27-06:00April 11th, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Kitchen, Organizing Tips, Storage|Tags: containers, spices, storage|

Spices & herbs are an integral part of the cooking experience. Whether you are baking a delicious dessert, or cooking a yummy meal for your family, chances are that you are using spices in some fashion. Some prefer fresh spices & herbs to those that use dried, perhaps due to convenience. Using fresh spices & herbs requires a larger quantity than the dried version, according to Martha Stewart. There is also information in Martha Stewart’s post on how to store fresh cut herbs. While using fresh spices & herbs may be more desirable than using dried, it is less convenient [...]

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P.E.A.C.E. Step 3 – Assign Homes

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:27-06:00March 21st, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Peace, Reduce Stress|Tags: decluttering, organizing process, storage|

Several years ago I wrote a post called, ‘Creating Peace at Home Through Organizing’. Click on the link to read the full article. The article explains why decluttering and organizing the spaces in your home is so important to achieve peace in your life. In that post I used the acronym PEACE to describe the five steps in the organizing process. The acronym was created to depict the result of organized spaces - peace. This post is the third in the series to provide more details for each step in the organizing process. You can read the first two steps [...]

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P.E.A.C.E. Step 2 – Eliminate Excess

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:27-06:00February 21st, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Peace|Tags: categories, organizing process, purge|

Several years ago I wrote a post called, ‘Creating Peace at Home Through Organizing’. Click on the link to read the full article. The article explains why decluttering and organizing the spaces in your home is so important to achieve peace in your life. In that post I used the acronym PEACE to describe the five steps in the organizing process. The acronym was created to depict the result of organized spaces - peace. This post is the second in the series to provide more details for each step in the organizing process. You can read the first step by clicking [...]

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4 Strategies For Going Digital

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:28-06:00February 7th, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Paper Management|Tags: computer, digital, paperless|

What does it actually mean to say you’re going digital? We live in the digital age and so many actions we take involve a computer of some type. There are laptops, electronic readers, smart phones, iPads, electronic devices for healthcare, voice recognition devices, etc. The internet sends data through the ether to its intended destination as a form of communication. Companies of all shapes and sizes are going digital. When you make an online purchase, you enter credit card information. When you make in-person purchases you have the option to swipe or insert a credit card or put your phone [...]

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