Greetings!
Since the start of school in August, I have been travelling from Texas, to D.C., to Oklahoma, and back giving presentations on organizing and family management. My weekends and many weekdays have been filled with educational talks and demonstrations. Recently I spoke at IKEA Dallas (Frisco) on a Back-to-School topic. About 40 people attended this free workshop and IKEA gave away some GREAT door prizes (see photo below). With the cooler weather finally here, we are in full gear scheduling garage organizing. This is a service we can only offer during the cooler months of the year, so if your garage needs some work, now is the time to call Get Organized!. One of our organizing clients called us to help her curb her shopping addiction by purging items, reorganizing her spaces, and holding a garage sale. She has many items for sale with about 90% new and in original boxes. To learn more about when and where this sale will be held, follow us on Facebook to watch for details. As the holiday season approaches, we will be offering a new organizing service. For those of you who do not want to spend weeks putting up Christmas decorations, or want a festive household but do not know where to begin, Get Organized! introduces our Christmas Decorating Services. We have two great packages to choose from - one we give you the ideas, and the other we do the work for you. In addition to our services, starting this month on Facebook we will be posting weekly Christmas organization tips. If you follow each tip, you will be able to get everything ready before December and enjoy the holidays. Remember that the best defense against chaos is preparation. I look forward to chatting with each of you on Facebook this month as Get Organized! gives out valuable advice on how to make your holiday season relaxing and joyful for your family. |
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Recycle Event in Richardson
The Richardson Citizens Police
 Academy Alumni Association will hold an electronic device collection and document recycling event on October 12, 2013 from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. There is no charge to drop off these items, but donations will be accepted. If you are ready to purge electronic items or shred unwanted paper clutter, bring them to City Hall in Richardson, Texas. |
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Meet the GO Team: Karla
 Over the next few months we will be giving you the "inside scoop" about members of our GO Team. Learn some interesting facts about each of them, and a little about why they enjoy organizing. Maybe you'll catch up with an organizer that helped you get organized!
Karla's forte' is staging someone's home for resale. She is very visual and can see the improvements before the clutter is removed. She says purging unwanted items that cause clutter is key in this situation. Function of the room is imperative, whether it be a kitchen, living area, kid's room, craft room or even a laundry room. Furniture placement, lighting, and accessorizing are other factors Karla must keep in mind in order to give clients the proper guidance to help simplify their lives.
Karla has traveled to many different countries, and has noticed the amount of stuff Americans buy. They purchase too many things that do not work for their space, and with no real plan for how to store an item, they buy a bigger home.
To Karla, less is more, and she finds great satisfaction in watching her clients come to that realization.
Karla is also very talented with home decorating. She loves to bring personality into the home and make it beautiful.
This year, Get Organized! introduces Decorating Packages for Christmas. With Karla's expertise, these services can help you enjoy Christmas by saving you precious time and energy.
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Need a Solution for Organizing Loose Batteries?
T he Container Store. If your kids have the habit of leaving batteries laying around the house or loose batteries wind up in junk drawers, this may be the solution for you! Batteries can be stored in one place, easily accessible, and can be checked by a built-in tester to make sure they still have a charge. The organizer holds many different sizes, includes two adapters which allows it to store up to 14 AA batteries, and also includes mounting hardware and labels. Check out the reviews on their website and see why this organizing tool gets a four and a half star rating.
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Get Organized! has been pleased to recommend the family of Neat® products to our residential and small business clients for many years. Neat offers devices for scanning receipts and documents to a computer to decrease paper clutter. Mid-October brings the launch of a great new tool you can use to organize your paper in the cloud. What makes this tool unique? Watch the video and learn more.
With this new technology you can scan your information right to the cloud without a computer at home or from the office. Scan receipts, create expense reports, share information through email, and scan to other popular scan cloud services. NeatConnect scans up to 24 pages per minute. This is the new era of freedom from paper clutter.
Get Organized! is proud to be a Neat Affiliate. Click here to order your Neat products including NeatConnect*. (*A three month cloud subscription is included with this purchase. ) |
Bin There Dump That
Most cities offer bulk pickup for free, but many times the homeowner must take all the trash to the curb where it may stay for days or rent a vehicle to take the bulk to a collection site.
We've found a company called Bin There Dump That . If you are in need of some major clean up at your house this fall and want someone else to handle the disposal, check out their website for more information. |
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Smart Storage Tip...
Use ordinary tension rods in the kitchen or bathroom cabinets to organize cookie sheets, cutting boards, muffin pans, and more.
In the kitchen, place rods in a cabinet in a vertical position and slide pans in between them. Place two rods spaced accordingly between each pan. Make sure you measure the cabinet and count your pans before shopping for these rods.
In the bathroom you can use these same rods placed horizontally to hang cleaning bottles for easy access. Our organizers have used larger shower tension rods to hang clothes in laundry rooms. It's low cost and it works.
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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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Lorraine Brock at IKEA
Lorraine made a wonderful Back-to-School presentation to a large audience at IKEA Dallas in Frisco.
Eager attendees learned about ways to organize their homes for easier living when life starts to get busy. Watch our Get Organized! newsletter and follow us on Facebook for information on future IKEA workshops in Dallas.
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| Savvy Ways to Save
Save an additional 50% on IKEA products in the markdown section of the store on the second Wednesday of each month.
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Packing and Unpacking
Services from GO
De-clutter before packing
Order packing supplies
Set-up new home
Shopping after move
Install shelf lining
Organize entire home
Dispose of packing materials
Let our GO Team do the hard work so you don't have too.
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Buying or Selling?
2 Free Hours of Staging
with Service
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MomsBestFriend.com. See how they can help you.
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recommends
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They have 23 locations in the DFW area.
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Next Month's
GO Newsletter
will be all about
organizing tips for
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Invite your family and friends to subscribe
and stay tuned!
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