Today we’re going to start a warranty series – a series, because I’ve got about five different ideas of how you can get your warranties organized. Well, five or six give or take.
From toasters to desk chairs, to your computer, cell phone, and juniors remote control car, life involves warranties and lots of them. Over the next few days, I’ll post about the different systems for warranty organization I’ve seen; they all differ, except for one thing, what you keep. No matter which storage option you end up liking best, you’ll need all of the following.
Keep the following for the …read more

I know, dry erase boards – so overdone, right? Every organizing junkie on the planet recommends them. (Even me).
However, here’s the deal. When you blog people like to send you free stuff. That may sound great, but I don’t like getting free stuff. I think we’ve pretty well established that I don’t love a lot of extra stuff, and while I sometimes get handy items that I use, mostly I get stuff that I just turn around and give away in a contest or to a friend.
That said, I received a different sort of white board item last October. I …read more

There is one organizing process that I hear over and over again that people just despise – and that’s filing papers. It’s just not fun and if not set up properly, it can become intimidating, time consuming and down right difficult.
In 2005, a company called Outsell, Inc., which is a research and advisory firm for the information industry, said that 5.4 billion hours are spent each year searching for information. They also found that in 2005 the average employee spent 11 hours per week searching for information, versus 8 hours in 2001. That’s a lot of wasted time!
Having a filing system …read more