Do You Seriously Dust Your Magazines?

Magazines.

Who knew these innocent little reads could cause such headaches as the pile up around you, if you do not keep them in control.

Here's a quick organizing video from Your Rocket Organizer to help encourage you to get your magazines purged and organized:

Organizing your old magazines: foxtoledo.com

Grab a brown paper grocery bag and start loading it up with your old magazines. Any magazine over 3 months has got to go. Most articles are available on-line if that is your justification for keeping it. If there is a layer of dust on them, it has got to go. (plus do you seriously want to dust a magazine?)

Please consider dropping off your magazines to a recycling center or check with you local school to see if they may need them for art projects.

Remember getting organized is an investment in yourself.

Enjoy the day!

What's your favorite magazine?

Big, Thick, Black ...

Either you make lists or you do not.

Chances are if you DO make lists, you are getting things done more efficiently and without the stress of:

"D'OH! I forgot the bread!"


In this clip Your Rocket Organizer (me ... smile), chats about lists and how they can help you get organized:

Rocket Organizer: Make a list: foxtoledo.com

What's the funniest thing you have added to your list only to cross off?

Using Some Thing for Something Else and Making Your Life Easier ... YEAH!!

Big storage bins are a wonderful way to corral and organize your stuff. Though these big storage boxes can become a black hole for many small items that easily make their way to the bottom

... Never to be seen again.



Thinking outside the box (pun completely intended), will give your deep, darkly hidden items life and purpose in your world. Plus you'll be able to find them quick and easy ... Hooray!!

Check out this organizing trick:

Organizing outdoor tools, supplies: foxtoledo.com

Sometimes the solution to your organizing and storage woes are outside of the area focus.
In this example: Using trash bins in a storage locker.

What's your favorite use of some "thing" for something else?

Organizing those Damn Legos!

Oh, if you have kids you have casually walked into a room (or perhaps even dashed), to only have a Lego building block attempt to pierce the ball of your foot as you begin to scream a list of expletives like a sailor.

@$*#&#   &%#@*!    %$&^*#@!!






Here's a great little trick you can use to help organize those little landmines:

Organizing your loose toys: foxtoledo.com

If you give your kids some tools and guidance, they can be organized. They spend all day in school making sure all the pencils, papers and scissors all end up in the correct spot. Your kids can be organized at home too ... though you need to be an example to them, as well.

What's the worst toy you have stepped on?

Grab Your Toilet Paper and Get Organized

It's your home.
You have lived there for years and become accustom to how things are.

Look around your home
and pick a room.
What do you see?



One BIG, HUGE mess with no hope of EVER getting organized. Why even bother? You've lived this long with it. Yeah, you feel overwhelmed and cranky about it, though there is nothing you can really do. It's just too much.

You have a problem. And, yeah, it may be a pretty big one, too. The thing is that all BIG problems are made of up smaller problems. Those smaller problems are made up of tiny problems. Solving these tiny problems, is exactly what you need to accomplish to love your home again.



How do you find these tiny problems to solve?
Reduce your vision.



Here's a clip from FOX Toledo news showing you this little trick:

Focusing in on a project: foxtoledo.com

So, grab a roll of toilet paper and look through the hole.
What do you see? Tiny problems.

By reduce your vision of the entire area, you can focus on smaller tasks. As you conquer these smaller tasks, the bigger problem begins to dwindle away. You begin to breathe easier in your home. Everything seems lighter and brighter.

Pretty slick, uh?
Get out there and enjoy the day!

What did your toilet paper roll show you?

Organizing your closet, No More Waterfalls!

You've been out have a fantastic day.

As you get home, you just want to jump into your jammies, enjoy your favorite beverage and watch some TV.

Though as you open up your closet to hang your jacket ...
SMASH, CRASH, BOOM!

Stuff comes tumbling out on top of you!

Well, check out this latest video for a great organizing tip on optimizing your closets:


What item has tumbled out on you?

Organizing Your Office Desktop

Well, even professional organizers need some help getting organized from time to time.

Here we take a peek at an office where the owner is about to do a complete "Arm Sweep," clearing all items from the desktop in one swoop:



If Hong Kong Phooey is the #1 Super Guy ... who is #2?

Clearing Clutter in your Kitchen Drawers

Do you have a bouquet of spatulas and other items that are over 5 years old, still in their packaging, lingering in your kitchen tools?

Perhaps it is time to let some of those items go.

Check out another organizing tip from Your Rocket Organizer on FOX Toledo news:

Clearing clutter in your drawers: foxtoledo.com

Now that you can easily get into your kitchen tools quick without slicing your fingers on your potato peeler, make sure you get outside and enjoy the day!

It's beautiful and so are you!

How many spatulas do you have?

Spring Break Packing Tip from Your Rocket Organizer

OK, I'm playing catch-up on getting the FOX Toledo Rocket Organzing videos posted.
Not giving out any excuses. My fault for the delay.

In this video, we are offering a great organizing tip for your Spring Break trip and a great way to save $25-35 or more each way on your airfare:

Packing a carry-on for spring break: foxtoledo.com

FOX has been so incredibly kind to put together a webpage with all these organizing videos (click here).

I will continue to post the videos as quickly as possible here, too!

What is your "MUST HAVE" for travelling?

Can You REALLY Organize a Teenager's Bedroom?

Organizing in a teenager's bedroom.

Is this even possible?!?

Why yes it is!



Rocket Organizing strikes again with a new organizing video for you. Check out how to bring some coolness (is it still "cool" to say "cool" anymore?) to your bedroom by assembling a Closetmaid Cubeicals storage system:


You could not pay me to relive my teenage years. I'm thankful I was able to bring a smile to one teenager's face. (a significant triumph in itself)

If you are looking for a great organizing product, easy to assemble and an awesome price, check out the Closetmaid Cubeicals. This one was purchased on sale at Target.

What is scary about your teenager's bedroom?

Organizing Trick for Your Bathroom

Morning are not a place for frustration or being annoyed. When you are getting ready in the morning, you ideally want your daily ritual to be easy and as simple as possible.

Here's a great little trick for organizing your bathroom, specifically your hair dryer:



Interested in more sassy, sexy fun organizing videos?
Go to RocketOrganizing.com

Rocket Organizing is about bringing something different in the organizing entertainment world: ideas and tips YOU can relate to (perhaps even tackle yourself).

What do you do in your home that you were not allow to growing up?

Drawer Magic with Rocket Organizing

Drawers.

We all have them. Many times STUFFED to the brim with pencils, screws, papers, power cords and other odds & ends. If you have your drawers organized, bonus to you.

In this video from Rocket Organizing (a new division of Organized Solutions), we take a look at an organizing magic trick to keep your drawers organized and in check:




What is your favorite drawer in your home?

Organizing Your Sock Drawer with Rocket Organizing

Rocket Organizing is a new venture of Organized Solutions and a sister to this blog.  

The purpose is to have short fun organizing videos, Q&A interviews, sassy shenanigans and geez, who knows what else.  This is the first complete organizing video on organizing your sock drawer.

We believe Rocket Organizing will  lead ultimately to a TV network picking up the program and adding some sassy, sexiness to the organizing world.

.... think of the trifecta of Rachel Ray, Ellen Degeneres and Lucille Ball.

Yes, we will have action figures.

Are you ready for some reality in the organizing world that YOU can relate to?