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GO Fans!
READ ALL ABOUT IT! Get Organized! receives a $5,000 award from the Women's Business Council Southwest (WBCS).
Each year, one or more certified women owned business is selected by the WBCS to receive the Lillie Knox Investing for Growth Award. The recipients are certified WBE (Women Business Enterprise) members who have identified a critical business need that if met, will support the growth and development of the business.
I was honored to receive this award on Thursday, September 6, at the 2012 WBCS Harvesting Partnership held at the Hyatt Regency DFW.
When I look back and see where I started, I am filled with gratitude for what the Lord has allowed me to achieve. I literally woke up one morning and decided to start my business. The name of my business came to me in a matter of minutes, and within a few hours we had purchased our domain name: Get Organized!
As we branch out with our new Business Organizing and Unpacking Services, Get Organized! will continue to be the leading professional organizing company in the DFW area.
I am most grateful to have been chosen to receive this award.
Humbly,
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Become a Professional Organizer through our
Affiliate Program
Get Organized! is interested in connecting with individuals throughout Texas who are naturally organized, creative with space planning and organizational systems, have business smarts, self-motivation, and an understanding of the importance of excellent time management. Organizing skills are often learned or enhanced through tasks and hobbies you have done both in the corporate world and in your own home. These skills, in addition to the branding advantage and professional training from a successful organizing company, can launch you into a profitable organizing business.
Our Affiliate Program allows you to focus on working as a professional organizer while you save both time and money utilizing the experience, brand recognition, and proven processes from one of DFW's finest organizing companies - Get Organized!. The initial investment includes: your time, travel expenses (for training in the Dallas area), general liability bonding insurance, and insurance for business use of your vehicle. There are no other startup costs.
We look forward to hearing from you about starting your own organizing business anywhere in the great state of Texas. |
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Chores for Kids
 Having trouble getting your kids to do their chores? Looking for an easy way to remind them? Here is a great solution to help your kids remember what is expected and have some fun with their chores. Create a system to hang "chore cards" in each child's room or a central location in the house. Print chore instruction cards, have them laminated, punch a hole in the top corner, and hang them from a wall hook. They can be colorful and fun, include pictures, and be personalized with your child's name. Save the cards on the computer and rotate the jobs weekly/monthly. You can make the instructions as detailed as necessary, depending on the age of each child. This is a sure way to give your kids more responsibilities and give mom less to do!
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A House That Cleans Itself?
Have you ever thought about the many costs of not being organized? I am currently reading a book written by someone who had always struggled with organizing...The House That Cleans Itself, by Mindy Starns Clark.
Ms. Clark says,"I have struggled most of my life with messiness: ignoring it, trying to conquer it, surrendering to it, fighting it, feeling ashamed by it, giving up on it, trying again and again to conquer it. The struggle has drained my energy, my self esteem, my relationships, my resources, and has kept me from a number of things I would have otherwise been able to do." She has some great ideas about how to change your environment to make it easier to stay organized.
Here are examples from the book about how to adapt the environment to compensate for and/or eliminate the behavior.
1. Draw a floor plan of your house including the rooms in it, then add the yard and an image of your car. No need to be an artist - just have fun with it.
2. Define each of your spaces. Is the dining room used for dining? If you have a desk in the dining room, your space has two purposes.
3. Determine flow pattern through your home by numbering each space according to usage priority.
4. Decide your home base zone, figure out the space that most effects you emotionally, clean it up, and keep it that way!
Purge anything that is not defined by the space,
Clean everything until it shines,
Measure your spaces in the room for new organizing tools,
Put everything back neat and organized,
Commit to keeping this one space organized no matter what!
If you are struggling to get started with your organizing plan, and are ready to make a change, give Get Organized! a call and schedule a consultation. Our professional organizers can do the work for you and also give you strategies to help you keep your home organized. Let us help you create a house that cleans itself!
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Good Day Fox
Lorraine Brock was featured on Good Day Fox August 24, for a Back to School segment on storing kids school papers. She showed off ideas and products that will help you organize and store school papers. Set up these systems now and keep your counters and kitchen table free of clutter.
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Tour IKEA with Lorraine
In August, Lorraine had over 65 attendees for a personal tour of the renovated Marketplace at IKEA Frisco. Every registered guest received a goodie bag, free coffee, and IKEA's wonderful cinnamon rolls.
Lorraine showed off many of her favorite IKEA products and took questions throughout the entire tour. Watch our newsletter for more exciting IKEA events. |
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Organizing Tip
Trying to figure out what to do with those keys, bags, briefcases, purses, and endless other items coming in and out of the house?
This wonderful product from IKEA is a great solution to organize and store them. The IKEA Expedit can be used in any area of the home including the laundry room, entryway, kitchen, family room, garage; wherever your family members enter and exit your house. Have at least one cube per person and identify the owner with a name tag or label. Making it easy to return the items to the same place after each use helps everyone get out the door on time each morning. If you would rather hide the contents, or if there are a lot of small items in the cube, purchase baskets or colorful boxes that fit each square. If you need a larger storage area, look for the six cube size.    |
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Savvy Ways
to Save
Is the cost of gas eating your lunch? It may be eating your dinner as well! If so, use your smartphone to locate the best gas prices in your area with AAA TripTik Mobile or GasBuddy apps. Try the Maps app on your iPhone to alert you to traffic problems so you can avoid them altogether! |
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We Unpack
Moving? Let us unpack, accessorize and organize your entire home. Contact Get Organized! today.
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School is back in session
and so are we! Let us clean up after those kiddos at $35 per area (limit 3 areas).
Get Organized! only recommends
for the services listed below,
and we proudly recommend them to our clients.
30% off tile and grout cleaning, and ask about our area rug cleaning special! Carpets, oriental and area rugs, tile and grout cleaning and sealing, carpet repairs, stretching, leather cleaning and repairs, upholstery cleaning, 24 hour water damage restoration, and pet urine removal and treatment. |
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Need a Realtor?
Buying or Selling
4 Free Organizing Hours or 2 Free Hours of Staging with Service
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Need a House Cleaning Service for your Home?
Maid Services
Fridge cleaned
Blinds and baseboards
Bathrooms
Kitchen
Dusting
Dusting Woodwork
Windows
Change Bedding
Laundry and more...
Contact us for a referral
972-841-0738
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Are you staging your home and need a place to store all your unneeded items until the move?
We recommend
Assured Self Storage
They have 20 locations in the DFW area.
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We are a full-service moving concierge company, skilled and experienced in all relocation services. Located in
Dallas, Texas, we offer a
premium moving experience catered to your needs.
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PlumLife is a calendar system different and better than other scheduling
programs because it was designed under the belief that everything in life
is related.
Their fundamental belief:
The calendar is the center
for life at home.
Their goal:
To create a calendar system that has a place for everything in one place.
With PlumLife, the calendar is central. Contacts, maps, and global search engines are then all linked together.
The workspace is key to seeing your entire world "live" AND all in one place. |
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