Organizing Just Got Fun! (with Clever Colleen)

I've MOVED my blog. . .

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:50:00 +0000

Hello! If you have found this blog (and didn't get redirected to the new location automatically) then please check out my new home for my blog: www.clevercolleen.com Check it out below:

It's Not Just the Product, it's the Process

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:00:00 +0000

Any of you that have followed my blog for any length of time have, no doubt, heard me refer to something that Laura over at the Org Junkie has said, written, or done. She is probably the biggest online Organizing Icon that I am aware of.

Well, friends, I'm going there again. As you know, I am a Founding Consultant with Clever Container and we have a few mottos that I am all too proud to repeat. One is "Organizing Just Got Fun", and the other is "It's Not Just the Products, it's the Process"

Well, ealier this month, Laura went into detail about the PROCESS. She cleverly uses the word as an acronym and really spells out and clarifies the organizing process in a well thought through way. Throughout the various steps, Laura provides links to earlier posts of hers in which she delves in even deeper to that particular component of the process. Brilliant. Really. You really need to make the time to read this through. Follow the link by clicking the picture and go to her site to read through. Make sure to click through the links and read the details that lie therein. You won't be sorry.

(http://orgjunkie.com/2012/01/the-organizing-process-is-your-force-use-it.html)

While you are at her blog, check out The Challenge. I think I'm going to participate. I think I'll get my laundry room organized. Let me know if you decide to join The Challenge too! Post a comment below.

Hurry, though. The Challenge begins on February 1st.

Welcome Planner Perfect followers!

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:55:00 +0000

I'd like to welcome you to my blog. If you have a chance, feel free to browse around and glean whatever you can from the various posts. During the last 100 days of 2011, I challenged myself to post one tip each day - and I am pleased to share that I was able to do that! (LOVE when I meet a goal!) Those tips can be found by clicking HERE.

I am so happy to have you smart woman that follow Jenny stop by to check out what I have to offer! I am in awe of Jenny and how well she does the art of homemaking! I feel so blessed to have happened upon her site, through BlogFrog, and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to have a moment in front of her readers.

For my regular followers - you, too, are in for quite a treat. But, first, let me tell you that Jenny, from Planner Perfect, has done a review of one of my Clever Container products, the Purse Organizer, over on her BLOG, and is hosting a giveaway. Head over HERE and enter today! While you are there, check out all the wisdom that you can find on her site - and make sure that you follow her as well.

I have also been given the opportunity to check out Jenny's Planner Perfect, Planner. From the moment it arrived in the mail, I knew this was going to be a life changer for me. Jenny is really on to something here! Unlike any other planner out there, this planner is meant to really plan what you want your LIFE to look like - not just another method to keeping track of all of you and your family's activities. The quality of the binder and the contents are top shelf, and the ebook that comes with it promises to have me doing my life differently. No, not just differently . . . BETTER.

Over the next few months, I am going to implement the strategy and thought process Jenny shares in her Planner and then, my dear readers, I am going to post updates so that you can see how this has helped shape my upcoming days in 2012!!

I hope you are excited. I know I am!!

Tips that make you look smart

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:01:00 +0000

From Woman's Day Magazine. . .

Getting Organized - Clever Container style

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:20:00 +0000

More CLEVER Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:42:00 +0000

A good friend shared this link on Facebook and I just have to share it with my readers. There are SO many great tips here, so don't waste another minute, go HERE to check it out.

What kind of tips? Well, there are tips for culling strawberries, storing extra bed sheets, sending apples in your kids lunches without them turning brown. . . and that is all just in the first few tips.

Travel WITH your office!

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:54:00 +0000

Here is one of the products that everyone at my shows always loves!

Product Picture from www.warriormama.com*

This is one of the higher price point products in our catalog (although it is worth every penny!) - BUT, did you know that this product can be yours for FREE?! You can host a show - in person with me if you live in the Chicagoland area - or a catalog show if you do not live close by. Email me at Fun@CleverColleen.com to learn more about that option, I'd love to help you get this item for yourself.

Just want it without hosting a show and willing to purchase it right now? Simply head over to my shop , click the Shop Now! button on the top right and then search for sophisticated file tote. This file tote comes in pink (pictured), black, and brown!!

* Lisa, another Clever Consultant, wrote a blog post about this product today as well.

Check out her post HERE.

Facelift time. . .

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:03:00 +0000

So, I just gave my blog a facelift. New background, new layout, more content. Links within each blog post to bring you to other posts that are similar.

NOW, I have to motivate some conversations. . would you leave me a comment and tell me what you would like to see me posting on? As my faithful followers already know, I did 100 Days of Organizing Tips to wrap up 2011. Did you like that? Should I post frequent Organizing Tips? Would you like to see more about the Clever Container products and alternate uses for each? Would you like to see more personal posts about the inner workings of my crazy household (careful what you ask for!)?? Leave me a comment and I will take your suggestions to heart! I promise.

SUPRISE SPECIAL! Don't miss it!

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:09:00 +0000

Go to www.clevercontainer.com/colleen and check out the special TODAY only on our EXCLUSIVE new product, the Clever Cache! Only $10 today, normally $22. Shipping is only $3 too!! GO! :-)

LAST DAY OF 2011! Stay Organized throughout 2012!

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Final Tip: STAY organized! You've read many of my posts and implemented at least a few, right? Now that you have gained some order to areas of your life, keep it that way. Appoint one day a month as your Organizing Day. Put it on your calendar as an appointment. On this day make an effort to pick one area and work at it until it’s done. Maybe it’s your makeup drawer, the garage, toy room, junk drawer, or hall closet. Take away donated items that day. You will feel so good and have such momentum you’ll want to keep going!

Clever Container is dedicated to help bring organization right to your door! You can host a show and give your friends and family the gift of learning wonderful organization tips and check out some wonderful, unique organizing products first hand. Check out www.clevercolleen.com today and then contact me to book your show: www.clevercolleen.com

We have a NEW catalog - orders can be taken from this catalog starting first thing tomorrow morning! Happy Last Day of 2011 and THANK YOU all for a stellar 2011 in my Clever Container business. If you are celebrating out of the home this evening, please BE SAFE!

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!! :-)

Clever Organizing Tip: Earn products for FREE!

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:00:00 +0000

Tip #98: Host your own Clever Container Show. You won't be sorry. Clever Container is AWESOME!! We are the only DSA approved direct sales company exclusively marketing organizing products. We have solutions to YOUR organizational dilemna. Contact me today at FUN@CleverColleen.com and lets figure out how you can earn some of these outstanding products for FREE today! Check it out!

There are only 2 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:00:00 +0000

Tip #97: Think of different uses for routine things. For example, in my house we use an attractive pasta jar to hold the grocery bags that we get (too often!) when we shop without our reusable bags. This isn't the exact jar we have, but this is an example of one:

There are only 3 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

Prepare Your Auto

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Tip #96: Make sure you are preapared when you are out in your vehicle. . .

There are only 4 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

Use small glass jars

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:06:00 +0000

Tip #95: Use Glass Jars. (from Real Simple) My dad actually did this! “Grandpa’s wood-shop solution of attaching glass jars underneath a table or a shelf is tried-and-true,” says Ted McCann, a Brooklyn-based custom woodworker. This trick works in the garage, the basement, and the craft room (or even possibly the home office, if you have an appropriate area): Nail or superglue the lids to the underside of a surface near where you store your tools, then twist the jars into place. Put like-size nuts and bolts in one jar, wood screws in another, nails in another. Also attach an empty jar so that when you’re working on a project, you can gather the necessary hardware and stow it there.

There are only 5 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

Clever Cookie Cutter Idea . . .

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:00:00 +0000

Tip #94: A day late and a dollar short. :-) Here is a tip you can use NEXT Christmas season. I love this. . . Buy Christmas cookie cutters (get them now - after the season, when they are marked down!) and then put them up on your Christmas tree like ornaments using attractive ribbon. Have a small recipe box full of your favorite christmas cookie recipes stashed under the tree. Then, when you have unexpected guests drop by during the holiday season, you can give them a cookie cutter and a recipe card as they are leaving. They will think you are SO thoughtful, right?! :-) Yeah you!

There are only 6 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2011!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Financially Organized

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Tip #93: Get your finances organized: Read this article for eight great tips: http://voices.yahoo.com/the-top-eight-ways-become-organized-financially-144755.html

There are only 8 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

Pack It!

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Tip #92: Pack It!

There are only 9 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

Have a "Later" List

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:13:00 +0000

Tip #91: We can do it all. We just can't do it all today. Right?!? So, consider having a list for things that you will want to do, but that really don't make sense today. Am I the only one that has this real problem? I will be helping pick up the kids room and I'll notice there are still a couple of pairs of sandals that missed making it into the summer bins. I then send my children around the house to the other bedroom and locate more potential escapee shoes? I also will put a t-shirt away in one of my littles drawers and notice that there are clothes that are never, ever selected to be worn. Either they don't fit nicely, or they just don't appeal to me or the child at hand for whatever reason. I think about purging out the drawers and . . .

With the methods I'm using, I will be lucky to actually get the room picked up. Seeing as we are hosting a get together tomorrow, I need to just do what is necessary. There is nothing wrong with purging the poor, unused clothing. Nor is there anything wrong with putting away those summer shoes, but NOT right now. These to-do's need to get recorded so that I don't forget them. They need to go on a "Later" list.

Do you have a "Later" List?? I'd love to hear!!

There are only 10 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

Plan, but not TOO much. . .

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:12:00 +0000

Tip #90: Time Management

There are only 11 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

Christmas Tip: Food and Guests Rule

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:32:00 +0000

Tip #89: Food and Guests Rule - A Christmas Tip. This is another AWESOME post from my friend, Colleen. Check it out right now! Really, it is a great read. :-)

There are only 12 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

Create a Landing Strip

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:31:00 +0000

Tip #88: Create a Landing Strip: (tip from the Unclutter): When I get home, I empty my pockets and put everything onto a tray near my doorway. Keys, purse, my ID and cash, cell phone, anything. This way it doesn’t get tossed on our counter or table, and we never have to look for it or forget it when we leave. See Unclutterer’s article on The landing strip.

There are only 13 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

Hang It Up!

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:30:00 +0000

Tip #87: Hanger considerations:

There are only 14 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

Toddler Proof stuff

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:22:00 +0000

I was browsing the internet looking for some new, fresh tips to share with you all and I found this tip from a reader on HGTV's site. Great Idea!!

Tip #86: When I had toddlers (I have 6 kids) it was a challenge to keep them out of the older kids' stuff. I saved plastic peanut butter jars and stored small parts. gamepieces, etc in them. Little hands could not open them and the play room stayed neater without every game and puzzle dumped in the middle of the floor!

There are only 15 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.

Divide and Conquer Your Makeup

noreply@blogger.com (Colleen Garcia) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:20:00 +0000

Tip #85: Drawers in the bathroom tend to be catchalls for lots of different containers, most of which badly organize their contents. An expandable cosmetic drawer organizer fits in a shallow drawer and takes the place of bulky cosmetic bags. Different size compartments will organize lipstick, blush and eye shadow so you never have to root around to find what you're looking for. As you organize your makeup, be sure to throw away anything that smells or is expired. Old makeup contains bacteria that can irritate your skin.

Expandable Drawer Organizer - another Clever Container product
Email me at Fun@CleverColleen.com to learn more!

There are only 16 days remaining in the year 2011. Will you face 2012 with arms wide open, ready to face all the opporunity it will yeild you? Plan and prepare now to finish this year well and give next year a stellar start.