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Home organizing

Podcast #15: Earth Day: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Items In Your Home

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So spring is here, more specifically by the time this episode gets released, it’ll be Earth Day the following day, which falls on April 22nd of every year. This year’s Earth Day theme is “Invest in our planet” which means“ encouraging individuals, businesses and governments to invest in technologies and practices that can benefit the Earth.

So in today’s episode, I want to share some tips and tricks on how we can Reduce, Reuse and Recycle items in our home to help our planet and keep our home organized at the same time.

Now, just because Earth Day happens only once a year, let THIS year be a marker to start. Or if you don’t know how to go about it, take this episode as a starting point where you can apply these earth-saving habits into your daily life.

Now, I’m not asking or saying for you to implement ALL of these tips or other ones you’ll hear and read about on the internet. But if you can implement ONE thing and try to be CONSISTENT about it for the rest of the year, you’re doing SOMETHING to help.

And, remember that thing I said about Earth Day coming once a year and using it as a marker? Well, by next year, when you’ll already have this year’s habit instilled, you’ll be ready to take on a new earth-saving habit. Boom! Your journey’s just beginning in helping to make a brighter, more beautiful and safer world ahead.

Every little bit counts.

Interview, Miscellaneous

Podcast #14: Digital Organizing – Interview With Stéphanie Galipeau From HOP

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…if you own a phone, a laptop, tablet…..
Basically any kind of device, tool or app that stores your digital files and documents, pictures, or helps you perform tasks much easier or sends you reminders throughout the day…or at the VERY LEAST, you get emails…

This is the episode you want to pay close attention to because it’s ALL about getting your digital clutter organized and so much more!

! I’m SO excited to share with you my VERY FIRST interview on the Parenting Guide: Organizing Habits Made Easy podcast ,with fellow Pro Organizer, colleague, former executive committee member with me – she served as our Montreal chapter chair for the last 4 years and did such an amazing job keeping us all informed and digitally organized too…. But has recently stepped down from that role to put her full focus and energy in the tail end of getting her brand new course out called L’ABC de l’organisation numérique, which translates to: The ABC’s or basics of Digital Organizing. And if you haven’t guessed already, this course is taught in French. So if you understand, read or can follow in French and want to get your digital clutter organized and systemized, this course is for you.

But first, let’s get to know more about my guest Stephanie Galipeau, the owner of HOP here in Montreal, Quebec and her brand new course teaching her students the basics of digital organizing!

Home organizing

Podcast #12: HowToIncreaseYourChancesOfSellingYourItemsOnline

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So this episode is an oldie but still a goodie. What do I mean by that?

This episode is taken from a FB Live I did on my Facebook Page, back in October 2020. 7 months after the pandemic hit. By this time, we’ve all been pretty much stuck at home and keeping to ourselves. Lots of things were shut down and there was no kind of gathering whatsoever.

And because of us all being homebound for months, people were well into reorganizing, decluttering and renovating their homes. They still are today, even with life getting back to some kind of normal, 2 years later. And, I don’t think it’ll stop anytime soon. This pandemic has taught us a lot, changed us in more ways than we ever could imagine and among many things, it also got us to look at our space a little differently.

So when I created that video back in 2020, “How To Increase Your Chances Of Selling Your Items Online ”, it was to encourage people to DO SOMETHING with their items they just decluttered and not just let it sit at the curb, or in some corner of the house waiting for the next time they can go out and drop it off at a donation center. I think at the time, I can’t even remember now, IF the donation centers WERE taking anything.

Anyway, I wanted to encourage people to get their things moving and out of their house, and make some money while doing that. With times being so uncertain, it was a way to get people excited and in control of their lives. Plus, who doesn’t like to make a little money now and again?

Add to that, the space you’re creating in your home brings so much clarity in your mind, lifts the weight off your shoulders that you literally feel lighter and it also feels like you’re breathing a little better. Kind of like a breath of fresh air now that there’s more room for air to circulate!

Home organizing, Podcast Episodes

Podcast #11: Top 7 Mistakes To Avoid When Starting An Organizing Project

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It’s that beautiful time of the year again, or at the time of this recording, it’s riiight around the corner and it’s typically THE prompt for thousands and thousands of people across the country, to do that ‘thing’ at this time of year: Spring Cleaning!

And unlike the word ‘cleaning’ in Spring Cleaning, this activity often goes far beyond washing, airing out and sweeping up the cobwebs. It also involves organizing and reorganizing too!

Now since the Pandemic started, we’ve all had a chance to take a step back and look within our own space and surroundings.  Some have completely revamped their homes, while others are going at it step by step.  Nevertheless in the last 2 years, the concept of ‘spring cleaning’ has gone from the beginning of spring to early summer TO an all-year event!

Tell me of someone who hasn’t cleared out or organized a space in their home, office, car, even relationships… in the last 2 years.  OK the last one is not part of the traditional sense of Spring Cleaning but this is a time of year to start fresh!

Home organizing

Podcast #10: 3 Tips To Making Bathroom Cleaning So Easy, The Kids Will Want To Do It

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The bathroom is either a place of chaos, comfort, a quiet zone or all of the above and everything else in between.  It’s a busy common area that if we equip ourselves and set the space up, we can totally achieve that ideal space that we resort to from time to time, or every night to escape into the World Wide Web, where most ideas and inspiration are not the only things being formed, but one of the only spaces where we can lock ourselves in from those once-cute, and now, grubby hands and constant questions: “What are you doing?” and “Can I have a snack?”

So in today’s episode I’m going to give you 3 tips to help make your bathroom easy to clean for you and the kids.  Grab a paper and pen my friend, a yummy coffee or take this all in as you go out and about.  These tips are some you may want to try, test out and, oh man, reap the benefits of easy cleaning that’s not only done by you!

Raise Responsible Kids

Podcast #9: My Secret Sauce to Setting Up The Kids For Success!

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The topic I chose to talk about, in today’s episode, is the basis of how I approach things with my kids. Call it the BLUEPRINT on how to teach my kids and get them to be more and more independent, feel confident and empowered so that I, myself, feel comfortable and confident; and that they’ve got the basics, or foundations in place for the next level that will eventually all add up to THEM becoming self-sufficient, capable, responsible adults. 

This is the foundation of what we do to Set our Kids up For Success!  

In this episode, I unveil how we started and what got the ball rolling for us to have this mindset; the logic behind our thinking that benefits all of us, and the one thing you can do to make your life easier!

I’ve had TONS and TONS of conversations and discussions over the last…. 10+ years about this with my sisters, friends, other parents as well as with clients.  Basically – everyone! But these conversations were always snippets of what I’m about to talk with you about today. 

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