The Bad Room

Organized People have Clutter too!

Just because I inherited the organizing gene doesn’t mean that I am without any clutter in my life.

I have what I call the ‘Bad Room’. A place in our home where anything that is not being used gets tossed. After a few months when I can’t get the door [...]

The Problem with Paper Clutter: Creating a Paper Management System

Here is the most recent article for a new column I am writing for the St Croix Courier.

Whether you are managing and running a home or a business, paper management seems to be a problem with most people.

Is your idea of paper storage a pile of bags filled with bills, receipts and [...]

The Four D’s of Paper Management

Here is my latest article for the column Organize written for the KV Style paper that is distributed to the 20,000 plus households in the Kennebecasis community in New Brunswick, Canada. With Tax season approaching it is timely information.

Paper, paper everywhere… oh what do I do with all the paper? Is the paper [...]

Want more Closet space: Look up, look way up

This past weekend I began a new chapter in my career. I am one of the latest columnists for the Saturday Community insert in our paper. KVStyle is a great read, it has everything from parenting to green living to…you got it organizing. I will be sharing my expertise every second week and am thrilled [...]

3 Easy Steps to an Organized Kitchen

Time to open the video vault again…

In this video you will learn the 3 easy steps to a more organized kitchen. By eliminating clutter and putting everything in its place you will have time for more important things in life…. like family and friends.

The first crisis of the day usually happens in this [...]

What is your Disorganization Costing YOU?

Yes there is an actual cost…real dollars that come from your bottom line if you are disorganized….I am not referring here to being messy…real organization means being able to find things when you need them.

The Cost of Disorganization comes right from your bottom-line!

Every minute you spend looking for something is time that you [...]

Elaine Shannon Rants on the Recession and Overconsumption

creak….can you hear the video vault being opened?

I have been known to get up on my soapbox as you have seen in the last few weeks and I also love a good rant….

If you are Canadian then you have had the opportunity to see Rick Mercer in action…well…he is the king of rants. [...]

Sorry, that Chicken Distracted me!

If it isn’t a chicken perhaps it is a shiny object. Or maybe its the telephone or the sound of the e-mails as they are arriving or the Crackberry that rings non stop or the mess on the desk that is calling you….oh there are so many distractions.

How do you ever expect to [...]

Join the Organizing Revolution and take back the driver seat

Becoming a WAHM(Work at Home Mom) certainly was not what Linda thought it would be…laundry…cooking… entertaining kids all day and worst of all….looking at the disorganization 24/7. What happened to the dream of making money while the kids were at school and meeting other women over morning coffee? Was it the fact that she could [...]

6 Steps to Organizing Nirvana

Not the Nirvana that “Smells like Teen Spirit” but the kind of Nirvana that Buddha described as ” the perfect peace of the state of mind that is free from craving, anger and other afflictive states”.  This may be a bit deep when the topic of organizing is on the table but really….perhaps it does [...]