Author: Karen Coupal

Three easy ideas to eliminate waste during your move

1. Do your best to declutter and donate. This way you won’t waste time, money or energy moving items you don’t need, use, or want anymore.

2. “Dress” your things in outfits and bags.If you’ve got a bunch of suitcases or totes, then use them to wrap your things inside. Your clothes, socks, and towels can also be used for cushioning delicate items.

3. Properly protect your belongings. Keep your things in the best shape possible by carefully wrapping everything. Use items like mattress bags and shrink wrap to keep everything clean during the move.… Continue Reading

Three reasons why your garage floor may be its greatest asset: 1. Protect Your Car Do you have so much stuff in your garage that you can’t park a car? If you do, you’re in good company as this is the case with 1 in 4 Americans. Consider the value of the items in your garage. Is that value the same as the $30,000 investment that you have parked unprotected in the driveway?  2. Room to Process Any clear open space is always great to see and have! Clearing unwanted and unused items out of a space is known to relieve anxiety and stress.

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Small kitchen or large kitchen. Recently updated or not. No matter what you have, Organized Matters loves kitchens and can help you make the most out of yours. 

Kitchen Rules:

Group like items together
This isn’t just a kitchen rule but a great rule for organizing in general. When you group like items together you will always know where to find what you are looking for and it eliminates buying duplicates.

Make things easy to get to
This is especially true for things you are using everyday or multiple time a day. A utensil holder next to your stove is a great example.… Continue Reading

Having a home for everything is one of my principles for organizing and it applies to paperwork too. Have you ever gotten a request from someone asking for a copy of a certain document? If you know where your documents are, it’s an easy task. If not, you may be searching for hours in multiple places often with no success. This can leave you frustrated and anxious. Take the initiative to get your paperwork organized – you will feel so much better knowing everything is in an easy to find place. These four categories are the basics for organizing paperwork, not including wastebasket and recycling.

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Welcome to Fall! Here in Buffalo, New York we love the four seasons and Fall is one of my favorite. In between apple picking and football games, or whatever your favorite activities are, mix in a few organizing tasks.

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Let’s talk about preserving your memories! We are constantly taking photos with our phones and creating an archive of all the fun places we have been, the things we have seen and the people we have spent time with. But, your phone or digital camera shouldn’t be the storage spot for months or years of photos.

We all know that accidents happen to phones and everything stored on it can be gone quickly. Don’t let this happen to you. There are a number of photo storage applications that you can use, most likely one that is already on your computer or available for free.… Continue Reading