Author Archives: cyndi

My Seminar At the SF Mart

Seminar on Designing an Organized Home On August 5th, I delivered a 90-minute seminar to 78 interior designers at the San Francisco Mart. What a great place to check out new trends and great styles of furniture and home furnishings, I’ll tell you! There were rooms and rooms and rooms of showroom furniture from many […]

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A Busy Life

Keeping up with that “To-do” list I try to post regularly on my blogs, however there are “those days” when certain things must be delayed. And although I consider writing in my blogs a high priority, when it is weighed against other higher priorities that consume the day, that’s when I have to tell myself […]

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An Organized Affair

Arranging a Gathering I never really gave it much thought when planning to meet friends somewhere, like a movie, but when I watched someone else arrange it (which was very nice, by the way), I witnessed all the elements come into play. And, it played out like a well planned event. The organizer of this […]

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Money in Clutter

Clean ups offer rewards Once again, I found money while clearing clutter from a room. It’s not that it happens once in a while, or with one out of five clients — it happens all the time, and that’s five out of five clients! Sometimes it is only coins that total a few bucks, and […]

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Could Haves, Should Haves

Nationwide Day to Toss Motivational speaker Martha J. Ross-Rodgers is recognized by Chase’s Calendar of Events for “Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves Day, celebrated nationwide on July 16, 2005. Although her motivation was to encourage people to get rid of their could haves and should haves relating to moving forward in life […]

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Organized Days

Today’s To Do My days have contained more variables than usual, and it’s always been up to my List to keep me focused. It can be disheartening when you’ve got your day planned, you’re going along checking things off the list, and then suddenly “things” happen. Although this is not an uncommon occurrence for people, […]

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The Organizing Trend

An Organized World The global trends of family structure and speed of daily life have changed the landscape of retail merchandise toward organizing the home and providing decorative storage solutions. These trends have also increased the demand for professional organizers, as more and more people get backlogs of clutter. TV shows like Bravo’s Queer Eye […]

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Eco-style

Eco-style – Live Smarter,more organized and eco-friendly lifestyles With all the clever techniques to living smarter, more organized lifestyles, it’s time to go a step further and get organized with style — eco-style, that is. My newest campaign is to not only help people get organized, but to help them get “eco-organized.” That means developing […]

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Home Appeal

Giving “Home Appeal” In the real estate industry, there is a term called “Staging the home” to sell that many people have not heard about. It is basically presenting your home to make it more attractive to potential buyers, helping to sell homes faster at top dollar. A “staged” home sells within an 18-day average […]

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Stretched Thin

When “I Will” Becomes Too Much Some of us tend to lead busy lives, working long hours, managing our homes and families, partaking in special projects, and fitting in a little social time with friends. People see how effective we are and come to us for certain things. We want to get involved and say […]

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