Posted by Laura on May 18, 2010 · 28 Comments
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This time, as we continue to prepare for our move at the end of June, we attacked my daughter’s room…again. Outgoing pile number one consisted of two boxes of books that went to a friend’s house and a bookshelf to help her organize all those books :) Outgoing pile number two (below) went to the [...]
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Posted by Laura on February 23, 2010 · 18 Comments
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A long, long time ago while we were still in high school my sweet brother, who happens to be three years younger than me, bought me a present. Now I can’t remember why but what I do remember is how loved I felt and how touched I was that with his own money he chose [...]
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Posted by Laura on February 9, 2010 · 44 Comments
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This next step falls under the “O” of PROCESS. O stands for organize and that includes the very important purging stage. Purge: to cleanse, purify; to get rid of something undesirable, unwanted, unneeded, impure, or imperfect Ahhh I’ve said the “P” word. Purging our clutter…….why is it so hard to do? People keep “stuff” for [...]
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Posted by Laura on January 27, 2010 · 17 Comments
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And yes there are some containers in that pile. I think I’ve completely lost my mind! I’ve been posting pictures of my “to go” piles over the past couple of weeks (or at least just the ones I took pictures of). Here are a few below. These are just the thrift store piles, it doesn’t [...]
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Posted by Laura on January 20, 2010 · 86 Comments
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I have been extremely busy these last couple of weeks. My husband has found a new job and it looks like my family will be moving to another province! It’s all very exciting and nerve wrecking at the same time. Thank you again for not only your support and encouragement but also patience with this [...]
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Posted by Laura on January 5, 2010 · 53 Comments
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Let’s face it, one of the hardest things about the organizing process is making the decisions about what to do with all our stuff and I’m no exception to that. While I can often let go of things pretty easily there are still times it’s difficult even for me. This was the case a couple [...]
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Posted by Laura on November 24, 2009 · 35 Comments
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I’ve been a busy busy girl these last couple of days. Every year before Christmas I like to do a massive purge of all three kid’s rooms. I get the two big kids (12 and 10) set up in each of their rooms concentrating on one area at a time. I then move between the [...]
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Posted by Laura on February 5, 2009 · 98 Comments
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Okay ladies, let’s be honest here. How many cookbooks do we really need? Do they breed in the night or what? This is what I want to know because it seems I just went through my cookbooks and yet somehow today it was necessary to purge some more. I managed to purge 7 in fact! [...]
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