Black Friday is upon us… don’t make bad choices when shopping, shop with intention and a list (and stick to the list) so you don’t make bad choices and end up with more clutter! Follow Rebekah on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @balaganbegone Check out Rebekah on Pintrest as Rebekah Saltzman and join the FREE Facebook…
Distractions are part of life, what can you do about them? How can you move past them? This week I talk about my 3 tips to get past distractions and keep yourself on task when you are organizing, but the tips can really be applied in other ways too, like getting your to do list…
There are a lot of reasons we put off decluttering, fear, worry, time, money, some of these are really valid, but never the less, we have to find a way to move past them. Identifying the problem is key, often times we know that decluttering needs to happen but we don’t know where the set…
A funny thing happened to me last week, we took out an edition from our Talmud that we haven’t used in years to give to our son. He started learning with a small group and needed one of the volumes for the lessons. It spurred a conversation with my husband, who has barely used this…
I started doing the 929 program a few months ago, when it started for the second time. In case you don’t know, 929 (https://www.929.org.il/lang/en/today) is how many chapters there are in all of the Tanach. (Torah, Nevim, Ketuvim.) From Sunday- Thursday you are supposed to study one chapter a day, Friday and Saturday are built…
World Mental Health day is October 10th, and this week on the JTO podcast we talk about how Hoarding, since 2013, is considered a real psychological problem. If you have any mental health issue, you should seek help, now! I talk about the different levels of hoarding, how hoarder is used as a general term…
A lady called me last week and asked me – She thinks that G-d will always send her what she needs but what about when things are on sale, should she stock up? She said that she knows she doesn’t need to hoard things but sometimes she sees things on sale and likes the idea…
I was planning to talk about Conquer Your Clutter and a listener question about purchasing clothing on sale, but then yesterday, Ari Fuld was murdered, and talking about buying things on sale the week of Yom Kippur just didn’t seem right. So, this week on the JTO podcast I talk about, tafkid – your mission…
Shannah Tova Everyone – (Happy Jewish New Year). This week on Journey to organization I talk about Tashlich, the Jewish ceremony done between Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur to rid yourself of sin. It is common to symbolically throw your sins away using bread, I talk about my experience, sans bread, saying the prayers at…
Often times people ask me, wouldn’t it be better if I just had more? I have three bathrooms so I need three toilet brushes, right? This week, I talk about this question, and why having more can sometimes be helpful, but usually isn’t. I also talk about my pledge to try to implement one new…