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Organizing Cables – How to Avoid The Spaghetti Effect

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:24-06:00October 31st, 2018|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips|Tags: containers, organizing process, plugs, recycle|

Do you have a box of cables that you don’t know what they are or what they belong to? Do the cords around your tv or entertainment center look like a mass of spaghetti? Do you have cables attached to power strips that are not attached to any device? Maybe they are attached to devices but you can’t figure out which device goes to which plug? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may have a cable organization dilemma! First let me say that you are not alone. So many of my client’s homes have this same [...]

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A Strategy For Paper Piles

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:25-06:00August 22nd, 2018|Categories: Paper Management, Storage|Tags: clutter, containers, documents, organize, strategy|

Have you ever seen someone’s desk, either at work or in their home, that has paper piles covering the surface? Perhaps your desk looks this way. These people are known to the organizing world as pilers. It’s a very common organizing style, or dare I say, lack of organizing style. When asked, pilers will tell you that they can find what they need when they need it. If this style works for them, great, although I’m not sure how they can find a particular document in all those piles. Maybe it’s some sort of brain radar that has yet to [...]

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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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On-The-Go Personal Storage

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:40-06:00September 9th, 2013|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Storage|Tags: clutter, containers, purses, storage, totes|

Everyone has personal things that they need to keep with them at all times. Identification is probably the most important personal storage item. House, car keys, cell phone and legal tender such as cash, credit or debit cards also top the list of very important items. Other items you may need outside the home that may be specific to each person could be personal care items. Some items we take from home could be specific to where we go, such as school, work, or to the gym. The items we take to these places are more likely larger than the items noted [...]

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Storage Do’s & Don’ts

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2024-03-01T12:20:04-06:00March 9th, 2011|Categories: Storage|Tags: containers, labels, organizing, spring cleaning, storage space|

As we begin to prepare for the coming of spring, the thought of spring cleaning and organizing comes to mind. Since organizing goes hand in hand with cleaning, that leads one to think about storage. Storage comes into play with organizing as the natural progression. The definition of storage is, “the action or method of storing something for future use.” Everything that is stored is in a container of sorts. Your house is a container for example. Every room is a container, and within each room, a closet is a container, as well as a dresser, and so on. There are [...]

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