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Step 4 Where else to donate?

March 27, 2009

Where else to donate? Food banks, senior centers and domestic violence centers. Last year was my big couponing/sale shopping/rebate/free samples year. You may say I went a little overboard. When my sisters and nieces dropped in we flocked around the “free stuff” table and picked through (with great delight and how do you do this [...]

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Step 3 Where to donate?

March 23, 2009

Do you have all the items piled up in boxes and bags ready to be carried to the car? Good for you … I am still working on mine. Jump ahead and see if any of my favorite donation places might also become your favorites. If you are just joining us for the BIG clean [...]

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Step 2 Donate, donate, donate

March 19, 2009

Follow along as we start the BIG clean to make my home and your home functional, clean, safe and comfortable. If you have just dropped in check out time to clean the nest first. I will not offer you any deep seated reasons why you or I live in clutter and why we can’t seem to get rid [...]

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Step 1 Time to clean the nest

March 10, 2009

Do I like an organizing challenge? Oh yes, especially when it is my home. Two months ago our son came home from graduate school … with a truck stuffed full of his thirty something life. You see, he is being deployed to Baghdad and the military thought fit to yank him out halfway through his [...]

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