I’ve noticed that I give the most enjoyment to my readers when I confess that the Organizing Goddess has feet of clay. Yes, dear readers, even professional organizers are human! Earlier this year, Barry Manilow appeared on Broadway in a concert of his music. Back in the day, I was a huge Barry Manilow fan. This was not a cool thing to admit back then, but I was fearless in my individuality and would happily confess it. Somebody once said…
Read more →In law, the “reasonable person standard” is used to judge a defendant’s behavior by asking whether “a reasonable person, under the same circumstances, would have acted in the same way as the defendant”. So what does this have to do with organizing? I sometimes use the “reasonable person standard” to help my clients determine how much is too much.
Read more →My mother called me the other day to tell me that she had 750 Q-tips and was hoping I would agree to take some of them off her hands. Here’s how it happened. My mother noticed that the package of 300 Q-tips that she purchased at Walgreen’s quite a number of years ago was almost empty. However, she was determined to buy a smaller package, since she and my dad use them up so slowly, and, like most of us…
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