Saying Goodbye Is Hard!

Fall is the best time to do “Organizational Spring Cleaning.” Why? Because Spring already has a lock on getting rid of Winter’s cobwebs and dust. Fall is about battening down the hatches and getting ready for the cold to come. So whenever the cold season is upon you, take the time to go through the abyss that is often known as the front hall closet before it threatens to topple down upon you in a sea of scarves and mittens from the 70s.

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Shanah Tovah!

Happy New Year to our Jewish readers!

One of the perks of being part of a multi-cultural family as well as professional organizers is that we both have subscriptions in our e-calendars for Jewish, Christian, Chinese and Cleveland Browns calendars and therefore know about all sorts of holidays. Boxing Day, anyone? But the real reason there's no PixieTip today is that my kids had the first day of Rosh Hashanah off yesterday, so I didn’t have my usual "me" time that school and the baby’s nap provides. But next Thursday I will have my "me" time and will be writing about Fall Cleaning. That’s right, Pixies like to shake things up and that means “Spring” cleaning in the Fall.

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Mister Roger's Entranceway

Everything I needed to know about organization I learned from Mister Rogers. Well not everything, but it still took me four decades to figure out that the way Mister Rogers took off his jacket and replaced it with a cardigan at the beginning of the show (ditto for his work shoes for sneakers) was exactly the kind of routine I needed to have to get and then keep my front hall organized.

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The Magical Purse

This tip won't work for everyone. Actually I can guarantee that the half of you who are Classics (SJs) plus you Organic Structures (NFJs) and Smart Structures (NTJs) will think we are mad-hatters, but the best organizational tip I ever had was from my fabulous  sister-in-law, Rebecca Perkins, of RougeNY: A Makeup Salon fame.

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See You in September!

Kelly says we are acting like proper Parisians — the city, as fate would have it, where PixiesDidIt! was born — and taking August off. We wish you plenty of lazy, dog days and hope you get to eat lots of fresh corn and juicy watermelon, and get to dip your toes into some cool body of water somewhere sunny and full of joy.

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