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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 […]

Transforming a Woman

As “Sharon” walked me through her home, she appeared quite complacent about the appearance of her home. Her home was not the worst I have seen, though she had stated concerns with every area we walked through.
Spare room had kitchen items stored because lack of space in the kitchen, laundry room had items that didn’t […]

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 […]

Organizing a Closet on TV

Organized Solutions makes another TV appearance this time on 13ABC Toledo.
YEAH!!!
I will get the video posted here asap. For now here is the link (click here)

Big HUGE thank you to Rebecca Regnier and 13ABC news for spotlighting me in their People and Places segment.
Rebecca you ROCK!!!(Check out her blog if you need a little […]

The Closet from Hell

Now, that is what “Molly” deemed her closet to be.I saw the potential for it to be a great closet.
Molly has lots of stuff. Piled all over the shelves. Even stuff stacked in the center on the closet floor, though you can no longer walk around because there is more stuff tossed around. (perhaps I […]

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 […]

Rainbow Closet

A closet is a small and enclosed space, a cabinet, or a cupboard in a house or building used for general storage or hanging clothes. A closet for food storage is usually referred to as a pantry.
Well, that’s how Wikipedia defines “closet.” I did not know that a water closet (WC) is not a storage […]

155 Pairs of Shoes

Interesting.This is my 155th post and today I organized 155 pairs of shoes.If I was a gambling chick, perhaps I would play the lottery.
Today I helped “Penny” get her home organized from her move about 4 years ago. Yes… 4 years ago. She has injured herself right before the move, then never caught up on […]

Closet Challenge

Megan was at the WEN Luncheon last February when during my commercial I mentioned a survey from IKEA (original post):
31% of their customers were more satisfied after cleaning out their closets than they were with sex. She has been anxiously awaiting my help with a closet in her home.
My challenge: A Utility Closet
Items stacked on […]