Spring Cleaning

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Keeping shoes organized in a closet can be difficult. For years, I found myself scrambling before work to find the right pair of shoes. A friend who works in athletic footwear industry once suggested a method for identifying shoes with a photo on the outside of the box. What a novel idea! No more frantically opening shoe boxes and trying to remember the brands and styles early in the morning

Oftentimes, the original shoe boxes become torn and tattered over the years. Whenever I purchase a new pair of shoes, I go to the local discount craft store and pick up a plastic container for less than a dollar. This helps protect my shoes and keeps my closet organized with a consistent look. Then I create photo labels for all my shoes and then place them on plastic shoe boxes for a durable, organized system to find and protect my shoes.

Here are the simple steps to making your own shoe labels. ...read more

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Guest blogger Stephanie over at Ketchum was recently telling us about how she moved to a new office space and was shocked by the amount of stuff she had accumulated in her six years in the old cubicle. Boxes and boxes of annual reports, press kits, news clippings, files from folks who had long since left the team on projects that had long since ended. In short, she was a veritable archive of PR program paraphernalia. 

 

Was all of this stuff necessary to keep? No. Did she? Yes. So why did she keep it all? In my mind, it always comes down to “what if.”  What if I need it in the future?  What if someone else (gasp, the boss!?) needs it in the future?  What if, what if, what if.  Well, she was drowning in the stuff those “what if’s” created, and I bet a lot of other office workers are too!

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Guest Blogger Stephanie Buttrill is an account supervisor at Ketchum, the public relations agency for FedEx Office. Like many New Yorkers, Stephanie is long-term apartment dweller, but she said she just had to share some tips for a springtime passion developed growing up in the suburbs of Chicago – garage sales!

 

It’s springtime, and to me that means just one thing – garage sale season! Walking through yard sales in my parents’ neighborhood and nearby suburban subdivisions was as common a weekend activity growing up as trips to the town pool or library. For me, every stop along a garage-sale route was like an adventure trying to find something extraordinary amidst piles of the merely ordinary (or worse!) items being discarded by their once-proud owners.  ...read more

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As someone who is meticulous about organizing at home and on the job, I can admit there is room for improvement when it comes to reducing my paper clutter. In fact, right now I have a stack of papers sitting on top of my paper shredder just waiting for my attention. Whether its copies of credit card statements and tax returns, cards from friends, or stacks of receipts – there’s a lot of paper to keep track of and its cluttering up my very small apartment! On top of that, I’m moving soon and I want to get it all organized before the movers show up. If you’re in spring cleaning mode like me, here are some quick tips to help you get this issue under control once and for all.

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I consider myself to be the resident organizational expert here on the “Out of Office” blogger team. Just ask anyone who knows me about my love for zip top bags and my label-making machine! As a neat freak, I am always anxiously awaiting the arrival of spring as that harkens to mind spring cleaning. And, if you’re like me, you may have been bitten by the spring cleaning bug already. So, I thought I’d post a great round-up with quick, easy and fun organizing ideas I’ve seen online. Take a look at the sites and projects below, and be sure to add some of yours to the comments section. ...read more

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