I received an interesting call from a client recently. She has a child with special needs, and because of the numerous doctor appointments and therapies, there is a lot of paperwork floating around her home. Throughout the conversation I began thinking more and more about how paper piles can affect everyone, not just those who…
Purim is coming soon and that means planning costumes, seudah menus, and getting supplies for your mishloach manot. To me, it seems that now-a-days mishloach manot are wrapped in so many layers of plastic and packed with so much junk and packaging. Many people seem to be throwing away the majority of the mishloach rather…
My son recently celebrated his bar mitzvah. It could have been a very stressful time, but I made a point of not letting it get to me. When things were not going quite the way I envisioned, I kept repeating to myself – “I refuse to get upset about a happy occasion.” This allowed me…
Children are notorious for being messy. They drop things on the floor, dump out their toys and never seem to put things away – no matter how many times you ask them. I received a question the other day about how one should go about teaching kids to be tidy. It’s a great question! To…
People always tell me, I don’t understand why I need your help, I am an organized person – it doesn’t make sense – and tell them that your organization skills aren’t the problem – it is the volume of stuff that you have in your home that is the problem. Listen to find out more…
Every woman should go to the seder calm, relaxed, joyful and excited. Often even the thought of cleaning the house is stressful. I have created this blog post to share some practical advice/tips to help you prepare your house for Pesach while losing the stress. My first piece of advice, is that perfect is the…
What is the connection between Tu B’Shevat (The Jewish New Year for trees) and using what we have and only buying what we really need? Listen to find out that and things that I do with my family to reduce my waste.
Let me tell you about the power of the Pesach workbook. You can download it for free from my website! It may seem like a lot at first but I assure you that it will make getting organized and ready for Passover a breeze. I want to go into greater detail about how the Peseach…
Do your kids have bad organizational habits? Setting them up to succeed with organizational skills helps them become better functioning adults, Listen to find out more.
Email clutter. Yes, it’s a problem that many of us have but may not consider to be a ‘real’ problem. I think email and digital clutter can weigh us down a lot. We don’t always notice the clutter because it sits out in cyber-space – a place that we cannot actually see with our eyes…