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2 Men Watching Alvin and the Chipmunks … Oh and another CBS appearance!

Sounds like a great opening lineto a joke, right?
Well, not quite.
See CBS WTOL asked me to help get a family a bit more organized. They would bring the camera crew and I get the job done. Awesome!
So here I am installing the shelves in a closet, sweating my butt off, balancing one shelf on my […]

Making Your Home Useful

The rooms, closets and areas of your home can be used however you wish. Really, it’s OK to use your home however you wish.
In our home, I sold our dining room furniture on eBay and moved in our keyboard, electric guitar & drumset. Now, we have an awesome music room! Dining room furniture is […]

Organizing Intervention

A couple recent clients have had me help get their family members organized. Pretty much it was set up as an intervention. No before or after photos were taken at the request of the family.
A daughter or son had contacted me in regards to their mother. The family had recognized that something needed to be […]

Room to Dance

Moving is stressful alone, let alone when you are rushed into it, which is exactly what happened with “Mary.” The rushed moved caused her basement to become the dumping ground.

The first area we needed to pick up a bit to be able to assemble a desk. The tricky part was trying to figure out how […]

The Room of Doom

I remember when the PC game, Doom, first came out. It was one of the original first person games and I became addicted to it. Working at Ford at the time, a group of us talked about strategies to defeat the evil monsters and conquer the boss. We even began created our own games, creating […]

Watch Out Oprah … Here I Come!!!

I’m going to be on CBS WTOL-TV!!Monday, December 10th, 9am eastern(don’t worry if you miss it … it will posted here next week)
It is going to be a 3 minute bit about getting organized for the holidays.
I sent them an email.They contacted me.And as the saying goes … the rest is history.
Didn’t I say I […]

Organizing Your Weakest Link

We all have a scary room in our home.Your house looks great, though lurking there is … That room.
Your scary room is the place that stuff ends up that you just can’t be bothered putting away. Maybe it is a drawer, cabinet, closet, spare bedroom, basement or garage.
“Jody’s” house is fantastic.Everything is neat, tidy and […]

Getting Kids Organized

Time for ME to get my house organized.
Yes … My home does gets out of hand like many people.
Today’s project: My basementMy boys have their Imaginext constantly set up and transforming into ever changing “islands” ruled by the “World Fairy,” where you can barter for items, dinosaurs destroy fortresses and in the end there is […]

Let the Magic Begin

Last month, I had a client introduce her friend, “Rita,” to me.(story here.)
As I turned to meet Rita that day, she said to me:
“Angie, I have seen your magic.Can you please come to my house?I need your help.” I helped Rita with her basement by installing some shelves. At our consult appointment, I chatted with […]

Sex?? (Part 2)

Way back in January (click here),I wrote about a statistic I had learned:
IKEA’s customer survey found that 31% of people said:
“They were more satisfied after cleaning out their closets than they were with sex.”
When working with my clients, I attempt to mention this statistic.I am nearly always able to work into our conversation.

“Survey says!”
Well, Organized […]