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3 Reasons to Start Downsizing Sooner Than Later

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:18-06:00October 30th, 2019|Categories: Downsizing, Home Remodeling|Tags: decluttering, downsizing, planning, purging, storage|

At some point everyone needs to do some downsizing of their belongings. This post is about starting the downsizing process sooner than later. Purging and de-cluttering are also terms that have the same result, to reduce the number of the things we own. We accumulate many items throughout the course of a lifetime. Things wear out, or we grow out of them, or our tastes change and we get more things, maybe different things. What we do with the things we are no longer using may be different for each of us. A lot of times we stash them away [...]

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I Had to Buy a New Cell Phone

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:18-06:00October 23rd, 2019|Categories: Planning|Tags: apps, communication, planning, research, smart phone, storage|

Everyone is so dependent on their cell phone these days for many things. The main reason was, is, and always will be for communication. You can make a call, text, send an email, interact on social media, video chat, and look up information on the internet all from a cell phone. They are actually mini computer devices, so you can do practically anything on a cell phone that you can do on any other computer device. Yes, it does need to be a smart phone but that’s what most everyone is going for when they get a cell phone. They [...]

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Just In Case I May Need it Someday

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:19-06:00September 4th, 2019|Categories: Decluttering, Organizing Tips|Tags: decluttering, keep or discard, mindset, someday, storage|

“I’m keeping this just in case I may need it someday”. I hear this a lot from clients as we are decluttering. We run across an item that they forgot they had. They will actually tell me that they forgot they had this thing, but seem happy that they found it. It may be something that they don’t need now, but they may need it someday. In my experience, most of the time someday never comes. It’s living in fear, the fear that you may need this thing after you let it go. This mindset may be more prevalent in [...]

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Consolidate to Save Space

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:19-06:00August 30th, 2019|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips|Tags: containers, getting organized, lists, proactive, storage|

When you consolidate contents of containers with the same product, you save space. Many of my clients have multiples of one product with varying amounts in each container. These could be personal care items, cleaning products, office supplies, etc. We consolidate the varying amounts into one container and voila, more space! I often wonder how that happens. My thought is to use up all the stuff in one container before opening a new one. If it’s the same product, why open a new one? It could be that the container being used, gets pushed behind others so it’s not seen. [...]

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What’s Hiding in Your Closet?

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:21-06:00July 3rd, 2019|Categories: Decluttering, Home Organization|Tags: clutter, maintenance, organize, storage|

A closet is a great way to store, well, anything actually. Before they were designed in the build of a home, an armoire was used to store clothing. In modern times closets are designed and built into rooms in every house. Typically, a bedroom includes a closet to store clothing to replace an armoire of days gone by. A living room, or foyer may have one to store coats. It’s basically a confined space with a door intended for storage for that room or space. If space is an issue, a closet may be used as storage for multiple categories [...]

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Cut Off The Flow of Incoming Clutter by Making Smart Choices

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:21-06:00May 3rd, 2019|Categories: Mindfullness, Organizing Tips|Tags: clutter, pile up, storage, stress|

In this Ted Talk called ‘Can we eat to starve cancer?’, William Li talks about Androgenesis becoming out of balance and causing a myriad of diseases. In his talk he focuses on cancer - about cutting off the flow of blood to cancer cells through food intake as an anti-Androgenesis therapy. It’s an interesting 20-minute talk, I encourage you to check it out. It may be a stretch, but I realized that we can do the same thing with incoming clutter by making smart choices. Things will inevitably come into our homes on a regular basis, or on an even [...]

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Backs of Doors Storage Options

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:22-06:00April 17th, 2019|Categories: Home Organization, Organizing Tips, Storage|Tags: declutter, organizers, small spaces, solutions, storage|

The backs of doors are an under-utilized storage option. For those that have small spaces they can provide the additional needed storage. There are many options for this type of storage but you need to do a little research to understand what works best for your situation. You must be conscience of the size of the items stored in these locations. They need to be in proportion to the area around the door when it closes. Cabinets and pantries have shelves in them that you need to work around depending on the depth of the storage item. If you decide [...]

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What Approach Should I Use to Begin to Declutter my Home?

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:22-06:00April 10th, 2019|Categories: Decluttering, Organizing Tips|Tags: declutter, downsizing, organizing process, storage, strategy|

This is a common question I hear from new clients. The answer is not simple. There is no one size fits all answer to this question. In fact, there are very few scenarios in life where one size fits all. The approach you use to declutter your home will likely be different from anyone else. Your situation is different from others so your approach will have a different strategy. Not everyone needs a whole house declutter. Some just have areas that are clutter magnets and need some tweaking to existing solutions. Others may need to declutter their home from top [...]

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Benefits of Moving to a Smaller Home

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:22-06:00March 20th, 2019|Categories: Downsizing, Moving|Tags: downsizing, moving, save money, save time, storage|

There will be a point in your life when you start to consider moving to a smaller home. Typically, we start to think along those lines as we get older. We slow down and don’t have the energy or physical capacity to manage the tasks associated with a big home. You may have started out with a smaller home, then as you moved along life’s path, you needed more space so you upsized to a larger home, maybe more than once. The kids came along and you needed more space to accommodate more things for more people. You needed more [...]

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Organizing a Lifetime of Memories

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:23-06:00February 27th, 2019|Categories: Home Organization, Storage|Tags: containers, memorabilia, storage|

Let’s face it, we all keep objects that have memories attached to them. The memory typically has an emotional attachment to the item. That may be why we keep them. Some feel that they will forget the memory if they discard the object. That may or may not be true but there are ways to manage your memorabilia to keep your memories from fading away. Everyone has different ideas of what they keep in terms of memorabilia. I’m not talking about photos, that is a category all on its own, although it does fit the memories theme. What I’m talking [...]

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