Get Organized Now! Newsletter by Maria Gracia http://www.getorganizednow.com Issue: February 20-26, 2010 Number of Subscribers: 181,999 ====================================================== Hello {!firstname_fix} ====================================================== ====================================================== Organize Those Mountains of Paper Once and For All ====================================================== So many people have spoken of the so-called paperless society. There's no doubt that the world hasn't caught on to this concept yet. There's more paper than ever... bank statements, insurance paperwork, schedules, school-related reports, medical records, warranties-- and of course all the fun paper too, like memorabilia, articles, hobby-related stuff and more. This is not to mention all the email messages and computer documents that get printed and copied each day--even more paper! These papers start small, quickly turn into piles, and then grow into mountains. Sometimes, these mountains of paper get so high, that the thought of tackling them is just too overwhelming-- especially when you don't have a good filing system in place or much time to put one together. If you're sick and tired of the piles of paper taking over your home and your life and you just don't know where to start, I have a solution for you. The good news is, this solution will take no time at all, and the result will be stunning--a filing system that will allow you to dismantle those mountains and find whatever you're looking for in seconds. Visit: http://www.getorganizednow.com/filing.html P.S. I guarantee you'll be able to get all your paper organized, in an efficient, easy-as-pie to set up filing system that will be the envy of all your friends. Here's what a few of our customers had to say ... Your My Oh-So-Organized Filing System was just the ticket for me to finally get my files lean and mean! I started one Saturday afternoon with four file drawers and two boxes. A few hours, three bags of shredded material and one Pride and Prejudice miniseries on DVD later, I was down to just one two-drawer file cart with a handful of stackable trays, one grab-and-go file holder for my desk and an organized box of manuals and warranties for my husband's workbench. All I had to do was open the filing system, put labels on folders, and get to work. Besides having everything all planned and printed, the most helpful aspect of the system was the handy guide. I learned there were plenty of papers that needed to be shredded instead of filed and I gleaned some really useful tips for keeping information at my fingertips. I never realized how much information I kept scattered around the house. Now it's all in one place--easy to find and easy to use. The day after I finished setting up the system my husband needed a manual for one of our appliances. I was able to locate it within seconds. Boy, was he impressed! Thanks again for such a great product. --Cate Brizzell, Author of 'Real People Don't Diet' I wanted to thank you for putting together My Oh-So- Organized Filing System. It is such a simple idea, but worth every penny. I put your system to work immediately, and you should see my filing drawer--it's beautiful! I could not have achieved the level of success without your completely thought out system. It's wonderful. Everything is filed away and neat and organized. I can find anything. I showed my husband and he was so impressed, he was telling the neighbors! Excellent product--I highly recommend it! --Jennifer Thoden, Drapery Sewing Supplies I received the filing system today and have started to label and organize my files. I hesitated to get it, because, after all, why should I pay for file folder labels when I could just write out my own? After receiving the booklet and labels, I'm so grateful that so much of the organizing work has been done for me! This system seems very well thought-out and is a breeze to implement. Thank you so much for developing this system-- it is well worth the money and then some! --Lorri Nicolini ====================================================== Got 10 Minutes...You Can Get Organized! ====================================================== 1. Desktop: Use the time to put pens & pencils back in the holder, put away stray paperclips and rubber bands, sort through the piles of paper. Create three file folders: To File, To Read, Take Action; sort papers appropriately into these 3 folders. Obviously, throw out any that are outdated or no longer needed. 2. Junk Drawer: We all have one. Throw out anything you don’t need anymore. Use old check boxes or baby food containers to sort the items you do keep in the drawer. Put away things that have a different home. 3. Purse: Pull out all the old receipts, notes, and grocery lists that ended up crumpled at the bottom. You probably don’t need 5 pens and 3 kinds of gum. While you’re at it, pull out the extra tubes of lipstick, after all, you can only wear one at a time. Consider taking out all those punch cards and 'club' cards that you don’t use everyday. Keep them in a small pouch in a desk drawer and just get out the one you need when you need it. 4. Refrigerator: When did you make those baked beans? What’s the expiration date on that salad dressing? Dig all the way to the back and pull out the stuff that’s out of date or that no one likes. A crowded refrigerator has to run more often to keep all that food cool and only ends up costing you more money. 5. Linen Closet: Do you need 30 washcloths for 4 people? Probably not. Do your bath towels have thin spots? Pull them out, too. Don’t just toss them in the trash! Keep a bag or box of rags in your basement. Use them to dust, dry your car, or to clean up after home improvement projects. ====================================================== Finally Organized, Finally Free -- for the HOME by Maria Gracia * HOT PRODUCT! Huge (405 Pages) HOME Edition! * Finally, a comprehensive resource to help you get organized once and for all! * Get 2,175 organizing tips, ideas and techniques to help you organize your home, your time and your life! Are you absolutely sick of all the clutter that seems to seep into every single room in your home? What about your overflowing email inbox? Do you wish the mountains of paper would magically vanish into thin air? Do you always feel like you can never catch up with your endless to do list? Is your family sabotaging your organizing efforts? In short, do you wish you can live a more organized, happy, less chaotic life? Visit: http://www.getorganizednow.com/foffhome.html P.S. Make 2010 your year to get organized! ====================================================== 6. Medicine Cabinet: You actually shouldn’t store medicines in the bathroom; the moisture and humidity isn’t good for them. I keep mine in a small tub in my linen closet. My mom keeps her in a kitchen cabinet. Wherever you keep them, weed out the ones that are past the expiration date. Check with your local municipality for proper disposal of medications. Make a note of any outdated prescriptions so you can contact your doctor to refill them if necessary. 7. To File: Remember that folder on your desk labeled 'To File'? Now is a great time to take that file folder to your file cabinet and put those papers in a more permanent home. Remember to only file papers you absolutely need to keep for tax or reference purposes. 8. Birthday Cards: I keep an assortment of birthday cards on hand for whenever I might need them. Once or twice a month check the calendar and sign and send birthday cards for the next two weeks. 9. Bookshelf: Do you really need your college textbooks? How about all those novels you read 3 years ago and haven’t picked up since? Load them into a bag or box and take them right out to your car. Next time your out running errands drop them off at your local charity of choice. 10. Magazine Rack: Magazine racks tend to pile up with outdated catalogs and magazines. Get rid of the outdated ones. If you want to keep a magazine for the idea you read in it, consider just tearing out the article and storing it in a file folder or binder. Both options use much less space than storing years of magazines and the information is much easier to find without having to weed through 7 years of magazines. ====================================================== Finally Organized, Finally Free -- for the OFFICE * HOT PRODUCT! Huge (395 Pages) OFFICE Edition! * Finally, a comprehensive resource to help you get organized once and for all! * Get 1,875 organizing tips, ideas and techniques to help you organize your office, your files, your schedule and so much more! Your phone is ringing, your email inbox is bursting, your To File tray is spilling onto the floor. You can't find the paper you're looking for. Your To Do list is already so long, and growing by the second. You can never leave work on time, you're missing deadlines and you're up to your eyeballs in work. As they say, somethings gotta give! Are you ready to get organized at the office? Visit: http://www.getorganizednow.com/foffoffice.html ====================================================== New Stuff and Site Updates ====================================================== Everything below is accessible by visiting: http://www.getorganizednow.com Please note that we update our site on a weekly basis, so the new stuff and site updates below may only be available for one week. ** Get Organized Now! Blog: Department 2 Read my personal comments, stories tips and observations about getting and staying organized in today's hectic world. You don't want to miss it. Newest entries: 1) 02/17 Make a Task Basket 2) 02/11 Increase Your Kitchen Storage Space 3) 02/04 Creating Time Pockets in Your Life 4) 01/26 The Memory Box 5) 01/20 Organized Spontaneity Visit: http://getorganizednow.typepad.com/get_organized_now_weblog/ ** NEW Weekly Organizing Challenge: Department 1 Each week, you'll get a new challenge. How fun knowing that lots of people are working on the same goal! Check out what this week's challenge is. We've just posted our Week of February 20th challenge. Go to the link below and look for the basket of magazines. http://getorganizednow.com/#challenge ** NEW Organizing Clinic: Department 10 We are preparing to downsize from a 3-story (with full basement), 4-bedroom house to a 2 or 3 bedroom town house with a walk out basement. The thought of weeding through 37 years accumulation of 'stuff' is so overwhelming that I can't get started. I have boxes of photographs to organize. I don't know what to do with old sewing patterns that no longer work. The rest of it is just things that I have saved over the years--clothes, memorabilia, toys, books, not to mention the furniture we don't plan to take. Can you help me get a running start? Go to the link below and look for the big house and small house. http://getorganizednow.com/#clinic ** February Monthly Checklist: Department 1 Ahhhh, the month of love. Why not celebrate by loving your super organized life! Start today with our new February monthly organizing checklist. Go to the link below and look for the pink flowers. http://www.getorganizednow.com/#checklist ** Web Poll: Department 14 Our featured multiple choice question is, 'When it comes to most meals at dinner time, do you eat home-cooked meals, use a personal chef, order in or eat out?' Go to the following link and cast your vote. It only takes a second, and your opinion can be heard. Visit: http://www.getorganizednow.com/#webpoll ====================================================== Finally...You Can Shed Unwanted Pounds Without Crazy Exercising or Counting Calories... Even if You Love Snacks and Dessert ====================================================== We're quickly approaching swimsuit season...why not begin looking and feeling your best right now? My friend Cate and her husband came up with a simple, workable plan that she and her husband used to shed unwanted pounds without starving or dieting. Cate dropped two dress sizes. Her husband dropped a bunch of pounds too. They did this with three children and full schedules of games and dance classes and all that fun stuff. Her program is called 'Real People Don't Diet' and it's great. Cate is a real person who found a way for a real family to eat and lose, while not grossing out the kids! As she says, 'All you'll need to do is take simple math, apply it to your eating habits and keep on living your life.' That's so do-able. So, if you'd like to stop dieting and start eating, I highly encourage you to check out 'Real People Don't Diet' right now. Visit: http://getorgnow1.budgexpert.hop.clickbank.net ====================================================== An Organizing Tip From One of Our Readers ====================================================== Instead of having a phone book, I use index cards in a receipe box. One box has family/friends and another box has business and household phone numbers and addresses. If people move, or go out of business I just make a new card and toss the old one. I color coded the family cards so I can find them quickly. Diana Romagnano Elgin, IL Diana has been a long-time and treasured moderator on the Get Organized Now! Discussion Forum. * * * * * Submit your favorite organizing tip! Visit: http://www.getorganizednow.com/readertip.html ====================================================== Organize and Protect Your Entire Photo Collection in as Little as 10 Days...Without Losing Your Mind ====================================================== Have you got years and years' worth of photos that have never even made it out of the film developers' envelopes? Worse yet, have you got rolls and rolls of film that haven't even been developed? Perhaps you're up to your eyeballs in boxes and stashes of photos that are a jumbled mess? You're not alone . . . and there is help. Visit: http://getorgnow1.photohelp.hop.clickbank.net/ ====================================================== An Organizing Tip From One of Our Readers ====================================================== My tips pertains to using up the cream still remaining in stiff tubes--the ones that do not roll up. Put the cap on and snip off the bottom quarter inch. A child's clean artist brush will allow you to get another week's supply out of your favorite moisturizer, make-up, etc. Snip more as you need to. Good economy in these times! Helen Fones Maryland Helen's favorite hobby is dancing! * * * * * Submit your favorite organizing tip! Visit: http://www.getorganizednow.com/readertip.html ====================================================== Organizing Challenge Notes ====================================================== Week of February 13th: Clean out your email inbox Hi Maria and Folks! I have just partially finished the challenge for cleaning out mailboxes. It's great, thank you. And I have one comment that might prove helpful. A loved one had passed away, and the distraught bereaved relative--I believe it was a daughter--found great comfort, in days to come, in reading the emails sent by the lost family member. Although the relationship could never be restored to it's original form, she took great comfort, when she needed her family that was gone, in just re- reading something that had been sent from her mom. I think this might be a good piece of advice when just cleaning out things. It's funny what we are touched by 'after the fact' when we lose dear ones. My mother is very elderly and I barely see her enough as these days. I shake my head when I think 'what will happen when'... and I save special email messages from her in a special file folder. Treasure your family members. Thanks! --Robin Lamont So far I've cleaned out the inbox belonging to two of the three email addresses I use and I've gotten rid of a total of 670 emails! --Barb I deleted 3,783 email messages, and there's still over 4,000 in my inbox! This was a challenge I definitely needed! I promise you--and myself--I'll have it cleared out by tomorrow afternoon, and vow to never allow it to get this bad again. --Greg, Daytona Beach, FL ====================================================== Discover the Secrets to Cleaning Your House Faster, Better, Completely and in Just Minutes a day! ====================================================== Are you overwhelmed with house cleaning chores? Sick and tired of living in a house that never seems to get cleaned? Or just plain frustrated that you seem to spend so much time cleaning just to barely stay on top of things? With today’s busy schedules, who has time to clean their house? But yet in today’s tough economic conditions, who has the extra money to spend on professional cleaners? How does anyone with a busy life manage? What if you could clean your house like a pro in half the time it takes you to clean it now? You can! 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