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How to Organize Digital Photos For Easy Access

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2023-06-27T16:08:31-05:00June 28th, 2023|Categories: Photos|Tags: backup, categories, files, organizing, printed photos, smart phone, sorting|

Do you have a ton of digital photos on your phone or maybe your computer? Can you easily find a specific photo? If so, then you most likely have them safely secured and efficiently organized and that’s great! If not, you may want to continue reading… A few years back I wrote a blog post with tips for organizing printed photos. If you didn’t see it, you can read it here. The process used to organize printed photos is the same, however, there is a difference. Printed photos can be physically moved around, whereas digital photos cannot. They can be [...]

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Miscellaneous – Not a Good Category For Organization

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2023-03-13T12:29:42-05:00March 15th, 2023|Categories: Home Organization|Tags: categories, labels, organizing process, professional organizers|

Professional organizers do not like the word miscellaneous. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary definition, it means, ‘consisting of diverse things or members’. This concept is the opposite of what organizers do. Organizers work with clients to categorize and assign homes to every item in their spaces, so that they can find specific items quickly and easily. When you have shelves, bins, drawers, etc., labeled with specific categories, there is no question what item is contained in that space. Categories are groups of like items. When you’re trying to find something specific, do you go to a bin labeled miscellaneous, [...]

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Commit to a Weekly Discard Session

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2022-09-13T14:43:39-05:00September 14th, 2022|Categories: Decluttering|Tags: categories, clutter, commit, donate, mindful, recycle, strategy|

In order to keep clutter from piling up, try this strategy – commit to a weekly discard session. The thought is to keep your belongings proportionate to your living spaces. Discarding can mean trash, recycle, or donate, which is a type of recycling. A weekly discard session doesn’t have to be a major undertaking. This strategy can be tailored to the amount of time you have available, being mindful that the amount of effort you put into this strategy determines the results. The idea is to choose a room, area or category each week and focus your available time on [...]

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Linen Closet Storage Best Practices

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-07-05T12:41:36-05:00July 7th, 2021|Categories: Home Organization, Storage|Tags: bathroom, categories, containers, inventory, labels, personal care items, storage, supplies|

Not every home has a linen closet. If your home has one, there are a couple of places where they may be located. Either in the bathroom, or they may be found in the hall outside the bathroom. Typically, they are not just used to store linens. Most likely, they are used to store towels, bed linens, personal care items and more. The location may determine what type of items you store in your linen closet. If it’s in the bathroom, consider the humidity that accumulates due to lack of air circulation, even with an exhaust fan, so you don’t [...]

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How to Organize Jewelry

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-05-21T15:29:32-05:00May 21st, 2021|Categories: Storage|Tags: categories, easy access, organizing, storage|

Just like any other organizing project, there are a variety of ways to organize jewelry. Reviewing the organizing process is the first step. The steps are shown below to refresh your memory and how it specifically pertains to jewelry. Put like items together – This is the beginning of the organizing process. Group your pieces into categories of like items that make sense to you. Examples of categories may be – rings, bracelets, pendants, earrings, watches, pins, etc. Eliminate excess – Look at the pieces in each category of like items. Make a decision for each item as to whether [...]

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Using Labels is Organizing’s Method of Communication

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-03-04T14:44:20-06:00March 4th, 2021|Categories: Home Organization|Tags: categories, communication, functionality, mindful, organizing process|

In the past I’ve talked about the importance of using labels in just about every post I’ve written about getting and staying organized. As the title says, they are a method of communication in terms of organization. Using labels leaves no doubt where items live in your spaces, so you can put things back where they belong after use and avoid misplacing items. This concept works for everyone regardless of age. Be mindful of the age of the person to determine the type of label to use for a particular item. For older adults, they may need a label with [...]

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Organizing Your Desktop Icons

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-01-27T14:45:16-06:00January 27th, 2021|Categories: Decluttering, Organizing Tips|Tags: categories, declutter, digital clutter, organizing|

Does your computer have so many desktop icons on it that you can’t see the background image? If so, it may be time to do some decluttering and organizing. These unused and unneeded icons equate to a form of digital clutter. This post pertains to PC’s since I’m a PC girl, not Macs, but here is a link from Apple Support that may help Mac users organize their desktop icons. Many people download files to their desktop for various reasons. Those files then become desktop icons. Some may be temporary and then get forgotten after they have served their purpose, [...]

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Using Tags During Downsizing

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-01-16T17:43:43-06:00January 20th, 2021|Categories: Downsizing|Tags: categories, clutter, estate sale companies, organizing process|

Using tags to mark items during downsizing is so important. When you’re downsizing to move to a smaller home, it can get confusing if items are not tagged correctly. Something may be moved that should not be, or vice versa. The first part of the organizing process is sorting, or putting like items together using tags for various categories. This first step allows you to see all the items in one category, so you know what you want to keep. You may have multiples of one item so you know the rest can go, or you may not need the [...]

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Organizing Printed Photos

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2023-06-27T16:09:32-05:00December 11th, 2019|Categories: Photos|Tags: categories, digitizing, memories, negatives, organizing, reduce, storage|

People of a certain age, older adults, have a lot of printed photos. In the past, there were actual cameras we used with film cartridges that you had to take in for developing. Those actions led to a mass quantity of physical photos. It’s not unusual to find boxes of loose photos, negatives and those little cardboard slides for projectors in my client’s homes. Back in the day there weren’t as many options for storage and to display printed photos as there are today. We also didn’t understand how to preserve our treasured memories so we could enjoy them for [...]

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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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