All young women have them: those fancy dresses that are worn once and then hang forever in the back of the closet, becoming more and more out of fashion. Here’s a wonderful opportunity to give those dresses a second chance. You’ll make someone very happy, and you’ll appreciate getting some of your closet space back.
Read more →Without even looking in your closets or drawers, I will hazard the guess that you have too many clothes. By that I mean that you have clothes you hardly ever wear, as well as clothes you never wear, ever. How do I know? Because everyone has too many clothes. Remember the 80-20 Rule, a.k.a. the Pareto Principle? It applies to clothes as well. We wear 20% of our clothes 80% of the time. That means that we are dedicating 80%…
Read more →Are your small New York closets incapable of accommodating your love affair with shoes? One of my proudest moments as an organizer is the session in which I helped a client reduce her designer shoe collection from 75 pairs down to 50! Another is the stroke of inspiration that liberated a client’s shoe collection from the top of her closets into an unused bookcase with glass doors. Considering the dollar investment she had made in them and how beautiful they…
Read more →Introducing my new e-book, Small Spaces, Fast Paces: New York Organizing Secrets. This book contains the first two years worth of my “Organizing Tip of the Week”. That’s 95 tips, organized into 13 topics, and easily navigatable thanks to the wonders of technology! Why should you buy my e-book?
Read more →Although temperatures here in New York City have remained mild thus far, there was a surprising nip in the air a couple of days ago that reminded me of how unpleasant winter can be when you aren’t dressed warmly enough. A charity called New York Cares collects nearly 70,000 gently used winter coats each December and distributes them to thousands of men, women, and children who would otherwise be cold. This includes not only homeless people, but the thousands of…
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