Be A Supporter - Not a Hoarder!

"To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hey Ladies, this one's for you!

How many bras do you have in your drawer?  Four, five, six.....ten, twenty?  What types?  Underwires, no underwires, sports bras, lacy ones, solid colors, florals, push-ups, criss-cross, strapless, blue, black, white, red, green......!

Do you use them all? Do you replace the old when you buy new ones?  Or is your bra drawer a bottomless pit of historical bra designs? A stratosphere of bras from all the stages of your life?

Really, how much of your bra collection is made up of the ones you use and love? 

Rather than hanging onto the past or avoiding the 20 minutes of sorting it will take to decide which bras are really the ones you want, why not decide to share the wealth and unstuff your overflowing dresser in the process.  There are women out there who could benefit from having the bras you really don't use.  It's a Win-Win!

Take some time this week.  Sort through.  Toss the shabby ones in the trash, keep the ones you know you use and love, and put the others into a mailing envelope or small box.  Once that's done, go to this site to see where to ship them:  http://www.brarecycling.com/index.shtml.

Be a supporter, not a hoarder.

Cheers!

Save a Tree: Organize Your Files

 

"In the long term, economic sustainability depends on ecological sustainability."

— “America’s Living Oceans”  [Pew Oceans Report, 2003]

Between the time that is lost searching for papers and documents and the cost of all the reprinting because we can't find documents in time to use them, it's no wonder our economy and forests are suffering.  In my career as a professional organizer, I have the opportunity to affect both economic and ecologic change especially when it comes to paper-waste.  Assessing the productivity of an office begins with the actual arrangement of the office.  Choosing and arranging your office desks and file storage has a bigger impact that it may at first seem.

Trying to work around pre-existing furniture and set-ups merely because that's 'the way it has always been' is the first mistake when addressing your office set-up.  The consideration of space and placement affects the flow and efficiency of your working environment.  Living with arrangements that impede your space taxes both your creativity and your productivity. 

According to Brother International, "...76 hours per person each year are lost as a result of disorganization in the workplace."  The results of this survey show that over $177 billion is wasted in simply looking for misplaced items/files in the office.  Can today's economy afford that?  Personally, mine can't.

The collateral effects of this disorganization in our offices are the resources that get wasted and mis-used.  The Brother report further goes on to say that "more than one-in-three [of the 800 respondents] say they “somewhat” or “very” often must spend time reprinting previously created documents because they have been misplaced.  This figure balloons to 48 percent of Gen Y employees, a group already under severe marketplace employment pressure." 

Starting from scratch is daunting.  Like re-inventing the wheel.  But if the wheel you're working with is square, maybe it's time to save yourself and the world more pain and go back to the drawing board.