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May 2014Is Empathy a Gift?
If being “empathetic” doesn’t come naturally to you, you will definitely relate to what I have to say! Using sincere empathy on a consistent basis can be difficult. Right? Think about situations that have required empathy in the past. Times when you needed to be sensitive or needed to relate to your son or daughter’s emotional state or circumstances. Think about how you wish you...
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May 2014Enter to win a MOS!
What is MOS? The Magnetic Organization System is a cable organizer elegant enough that it actually belongs in plain view rather than being hidden away. Enter this Come To Order and Swell Direct contest today!
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May 2014Clutter to Commemoration
Family Photo Organization: A Guide to Organizing Family Photos for Improved Preservation and Sharing is a book written and organized specifically to guide families step by step in building skills that will help them better organize their family photo collections, preserve fading family memories well into the future, and to describe ways to more fully share these treasured family photo images with extended family and...
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May 2014Photo Archiving
Treasured memories and traditions are often captured with photographs. Especially with cell phones and iPods, catching every moment is not only a part of our daily lives, it has become a social custom. To insure your images don’t get stuck in your phone or printed photographs aren’t shoved into drawers or shoeboxes or displayed in albums that will fade over time, here are some suggestions...
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May 2014Clutter Control for Kids
Playing is often times the best way for children to accomplish a task, even when it comes to combatting household clutter. Dirty laundry, abandoned toys, endless refrigerator art work and unmade beds, have a way of creeping into our everyday lives. And, it isn’t fun. But, we have a couple “fun” tactics for cleaning up the kid-clutter: FRIDGE OR COMMAND CENTER Let’s start with the...
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May 2014Think Inside the Box!
Celebrate National Photo Month with us!! As you think about sorting, filing, archiving your family memories and what can help you organize your photo projects, consider using Pioneer Black & White Photo Storage Boxes. This set of six photo storage boxes are heavy duty! They hold over 1100 photos up to 4”x7” (or 10 VHS video cassettes if you have old family videos from your...
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May 2014Tips for Better Time Management
Good Foods Grocery | Gayton Crossing Resource Room THURSDAY, MAY 8—6:30PM-7:30PM Not feeling like time is on your side? Too much to do and not enough time? Certified Professional Organizer Kathy Jenkins will share with you a new perspective on how to view time. Learn time management basics, how to manage distractions and interruptions, and how to juggle all that you have to do. We...
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May 2014Parting with Memories
In our crazy busy lives we cherish the precious moments that we have in our lives. Sometimes that is a wedding, a trip, a performance or the art work that your kids bring home from school. Those times are so special we never want to forget them so we hold on to anything that we think will remind us… the ticket stub, the program, the...
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May 2014MOS: My New Desk Buddy
MOS stands for Magnet Organization System… it’s a magnetic based cable organizer station! It keeps track of all of my frequently used cables from my laptop like my iPhone, printer, camera and scanner cables.
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Apr 2014Smead podcast with Kathy Jenkins on Student Organizing
April 2014 – Finishing the School Year Strong! Kathy Jenkins was featured on the Smead podcast ‘Keeping You Organized’. In this podcast, Kathy Jenkins, Student Organizing Expert, discusses everything from her journey into Professional Organizing, how her son was instrumental in her motivation to develop her work with students, organizing essentials for elementary school kids, the importance of routines, different learning styles and much more....
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