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Is your medicine cabinet overflowing?

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It’s so easy to find yourself overloaded with expired and unused medication. Most likely a big part of the reason you still have all of those unused medications around is because you don’t know how to dispose of them properly. We’ve learned over the years that just tossing your medicine into the trash or flushing it down the sink or toilet has negative consequences. There is growing evidence that throwing out unused medications improperly is contributing to traces of pharmaceuticals being detected in the environment, primarily in the water and soil. This may have a harmful effect on the environment… read more »

Time management tips

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Schedule time next week to complete what you didn’t finish this week. Schedule appointments with yourself to complete priority work. How many magazine subscriptions do you have? Does the amount of time you have to read them match the amount you are receiving? Utilize your prime time for priorites. Avoid checking email first thing in the morning. Group your tasks together such as calls to make, bills to pay, etc. Avoid multitasking; it takes the brain 4 times longer to recognize and process each time you change gears to a new task. If you switch back and forth constantly you… read more »

Reducing junk mail tips

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Visit the Direct Marketing Association website. There you can manage credit offers, catalogs, magazines and other mail offers. They make it super easy to manage what mail you do receive. You must re-register after five years. You may also register deceased loved ones with their Deceased Do Not Contact list. Another great website that manages a large variety of solicitations you get is Catalog Choice. Their service works with you to stop catalogs, coupons, credit card offers, phone books, circulars and more. Penny Savers: You can call 800-422-4116 or mail request to Circulation, c/o Penny Saver, 2830 Orbiter St, Brea,… read more »

Messy desk tips

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Make sure the only things ON your desk are the things you use all of the time. Everything else should have a different “home”. Keep the things you use the most within fingertip reach. Keep the things you use often within arms reach. Keep the things you use rarely the furthest away. Everything on or in your desk, and in your office, should be assigned a home based on its use. Group like things with like things, including your tasks. Stop trying to use a table or something else for a desk, it will NEVER work. Get a desk with… read more »

Paper management tips

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Avoid looking at papers and placing them back on your desk. Make a decision on them, and then follow through right away. Don’t keep magazines. Tear out or photocopy relevant articles. Use a follow-up file (action system) to hold paperwork relating to scheduled tasks. Invest in a Freedom Filer system. If you handle paperwork more than twice before taking action on it, you are losing time, money and energy. Sort, file and purge regularly. Work out of your car? Use a spiral notebook for ALL of your notes & never search for those scraps of paper again.

Great new shredding resource

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A colleague of mine recently shared a new inexpensive resource for shredding with me and I just had to pass that information along to you! The company’s name is American Document Destruction and they are located at 10600 Kahlmeyer Dr in St. Louis (63132). Their phone number is 314-423-8388. If you have 10 or more boxes of shredding and you bring them to their location, it’s FREE. If you have under 10 boxes, there is a flat fee of $5.00. You are welcome to watch them destroy your documents. My colleague says she has always found the employees there to… read more »

Decluttering your smart phone

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Check out these stats from an article in The Wall Street Journal. Clutter isn’t just physical stuff. Be careful not to clutter up your smart phones with apps you don’t use, need or love! The number of apps the average smartphone user world-wide is expected to download this year – 37. (ABI Research) The number of apps expected to be downloaded world-wide this year – 36 billion. (ABI Research) The number of apps expected to be downloaded world-wide in 2017 – 136 Billion. (ABI Research) The number of minutes people spend on average each day on mobile apps in the… read more »

Featured on I’m An Organizing Junkie

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One of the most popular organizing websites and blogs, Organizing Junkie chose Sue Anderson as the focus for their Summer Organizer Spotlight series. Laura, The Organizing Junkie, first heard about Sue when she stumbled across our partnering website, The Stuff Stop. Read the article.

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