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Spring Clearing!

Posted by Jane Woolsey on May 8, 2011

A much more pleasant term and broader to encompass the purging and organizing aspect of getting a fresh start for the spring!

There are so many areas to talk about within this concept of “Spring Clearing” so keep in touch. Let’s start small and work our way up to the largest tasks it and for those organizers out there…..capture some of these ideas and work through them with your clients.

Magazine Madness!

I tackled this one myself last weekend when it was pouring cats and dogs outside! That pile of wonderful magazines that have accumulated over the past months or years. It is so easy to allow this to happen. Don’t procrastinate any longer…it’s time to deal with them, try these ideas to free up space and perhaps save some money:

Limit the number of subscriptions, perhaps one per interest, or rotate your subscriptions each year – you only have so much free time to read them
Donate magazines to dental or doctor’s offices, or any place there is a waiting room
If they are current issues(no more than three months old) then you might approach Good Will to donate them
Share subscriptions with your family members, a friend or your next door neighbour
Tear out articles and file them in a “To Read” or “Resource” file and recycle the rest of the magazine
Cancel subscriptions and search for your favourite topics on the internet

Filed Under: Organizing Strategies, Paper Management, Purging Tagged: clutter, magazines, organizing, spring clearing

About Jane

With over 25 years in business having held senior executive postions with a number of corporations, Jane left the corporate world in 2000 to start her own business. Since that time she has worked with a variety of clients across diverse industry sectors. Jane now owns two companies, An Organized Vision which provides business organizing services, focusing mostly on records and information management, and NADUM, a corporate training company specializing in facilitation and effective meeting management skills training.

She is a former President of The Professional Organizers in Canada Association, one of the first few in Canada to achieve the designation of CPO® ~ Certified Professional Organizer, and winner of the 2009 Harold Taylor Award which recognizes an individual’s contribution to the organizing industry. In addition, she was the spokesperson for Avery Dennison Canada. Some of Jane’s media appearances, speaking on organization and training, include CBC National Morning News, CTV Newsnet, CTV Noon news, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Rogers Cable and Reader's Digest.

Jane is passionate about helping others to develop and improve their business skills and businesses to improve their bottom line. The combination of her business education at York University and her years of business and training experience provides a powerful resource to any organization.