Kids & Toy Clutter: How to find the floor

Here's an excerpt from my book "Clutter Clearing Choices" at www.nanafinds.com. Hopefully, it will help with kids and clutter, especially toy clutter.

Four ways to spring clean responsibly--and it isn't as hard to do as you think it is

Four ways to spring clean responsibly--and it isn't as hard to do as you think it is

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7 Paper Decluttering Tips For Mom Entrepreneurs

Check out my guest blog post at Heather Allard's awesome website for Mogul Moms. If you work from home, you will find a lot of great information at her site.

Spring clutter clearing Part 1 & Part 2 at minnesotamamasmusthaves.com

Here are two links to www.minnesotamamamusthaves.com guest blogs on clutter clearing that I am honored to post there. This is a great site for Minnesota moms! Enjoy!

Part 1 Tips to deal with the clutter

Part 2 Clearing your clutter

Author interview and book give-away at ExclusiveMagazine.com

Here an interview at ExclusiveMagazine.com of me as the author of "Clutter Clearing Choices: Clear Clutter, Organize Your Home, & Reclaim Your life."

I hope you enjoy it! It gives a little background about me and has a few clutter clearing tips that you may find helpful. You can also enter the drawing to win a free copy of the book!

Tips from a not-so-organized spring vacation

Tips from a not-so-organized spring vacation

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Television interview with Norma Holland 13WHAM in Rochester, New York

My book "Clutter Clearing Choices" and I appeared on television this morning. Here is the link:

13WHAM television interview with Norma Holland

Interview and article about "Clutter Clearing Choices"

Yes, I am a newbie author and I am happy to share with you the author interview article written by Lynn Voedisch in Blogcritics.org that is linked in USA TODAY

I hope you find the mail clutter tips there helpful!

It pays to be organized about money

It pays to be organized about money
posted on Examiner.com has helpful ideas
and resources about frugality and financial organization.

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Dad of Divas: "Clutter Clearing Choices" book review and giveaway

Here is the latest book review of Clutter Clearing Choices: Clear Clutter, Organize Your Home, & Reclaim Your Life. You can look at the review and giveaway at dadofdivas.blogspot.com.

Here is how it begins:

My Take On The Book
I have never been the most organized person (I allow J-Mom to compliment me in this way). In picking up this book I was interested to see how the author approached the topic. As I read the book you can easily see that she is not setting herself out there to say that she does not have faults or  weakness. Instead she fully admits to her shortcomings and provides quick and easy ways to deal with clutter and...

Does a vacation help you to declutter?

I am back in cold snow-covered Minnesota after a warm weather vacation and I am pondering the question: Does a vacation help you to declutter? Does it clear the mental clutter or add to it? What do you think? Right now, for someone who is supposed to be, well, organized, I am feeling pretty overwhelmed. I have a backlog of e-mails, mail, laundry, and paperwork, for starters. I need to unclutter. My fortune cookie at lunch today said: "You have a yearning for perfection." Oh, yeah. Humm. Maybe I should heed my own suggestions.

Vacations, for me, don't always make work go away (I could get e-mails but not send out responses, and I worked on my laptop on the airplane). Vacations don't always reduce stress as much as I would like (My head kept on working during several days in the sun). What vacations often offer me is a change of view or a fresh perspective. Sometimes that helps me approach old problems from new angles. If you are up for a local splurge, a facial, pedicure, or massage might provide the same help. Sometimes I need to lean back into a vacation and just trust and enjoy the process.

It is hard to trust in the process. The benefits probably don't show up all at once. In an era of instant gratification and instant access to everything, I am often too impatient. I simply can't have perfection in everything. Perfectionism is a path to unhappiness for myself and for those around me.

What can I do? I can whittle away at the vacation and enjoy the moments as they happen.  Upon coming back, I can work in baby steps. Everything won't get done instantly, but I can trust in the process. Sometimes that yields better results than stomping my feet or crying.

Clutter clearing and home organizing "rules"

I am frustrated by home organizing and clutter clearing television shows that seem to miss the mark in terms of what their viewing audiences seek. The shows assume that "experts" need to call the shots. The shows assume that people seeking help are always extremely cluttered or disorganized.  It is also assumed that a less-cluttered audience gains something from watching what is done for people at the extreme end of the spectrum. I think there is a gap here.

Here are some new clutter clearing and home organizing "rules":

1. There is no single right way to clear clutter or get organized.
2. Many of us don't have huge organizational or clutter concerns, but we still count.
3. It is helpful for many people to learn how to tweak and improve this aspect of their lives, even if they don't have major problems with it.
4. Each person can tailor their clutter clearing and home organizing techniques to match his or her own personality and stage of life.
5. Many people are capable of learning techniques and applying them themselves.
6. Clearing clutter and getting organized isn't about creating a "magazine-cover" home. It is about freeing up time and energy for personal priorities, whatever they are.

I would like to see a television show that follows the new rules. 

I needed to get that off my chest. Thank you.