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Spring Cleaning Advice from the Experts

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Bella Organizing collaborated with Redfin Realty and other cleaning and organizing experts to bring you Spring cleaning tips.

As the days grow longer and the weather begins to warm, we start to see the first signs of spring in the air. If you live in New York, Portland, or anywhere in between, the signs of spring are the same – the flowers begin to bloom and the birds are chirping again. After all, spring is the season of new beginnings, so why not refresh your home with spring cleaning? Declutter and deep clean the interior and exterior of your home before spring has sprung with these expert tips. Read more…

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Change Passwords – Get Organized in the New Year

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Commit to get organized and stay protected by updating account passwords this month – Email, banking, credit card, investment, Paypal, Venmo, government and taxes, online stores and commerce sites, social media, digital storage sites for photos, videos, and documents, gaming & entertainment, personal websites, and even your ATM pin.

Online managers such as 1Password, Dashlane, and Lastpass exist to help organize and secure passwords in one place, but remember that anything online and in the cloud is vulnerable to hacking no matter how many layers of encryption they claim to have, just as your home is vulnerable to burglary despite dogs and alarm systems.

Keep passwords in a safe place that only you and those you trust can access. Update them at least once per year and stay safe.

Isabella Guajardo is a San Francisco Bay Area professional organizer and a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). She travels to work with clients throughout the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Call (510) 229-7321 for a complimentary consultation on how we can get your home or office moved and/or organized. Gift cards are available.

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Week 52 | Garage Items | 52 Weeks To Downsize & Minimalize

Garage Items

garage-clutter-professional-organizerGarage Items tend to accumulate at warp speed. Before you know it, you have a garage that you can barely walk through, much less park in.

Garage Items to Downsize and Minimalize

Do you still have old sporting equipment no longer played with? Time to sell it, donate it, or pitch it if it’s in rough shape.

How about those extra pieces of home improvement items you worked on 5, 10, 15 years ago? Excess tile, flooring, carpet, wood scraps, paint now clumpy that doesn’t match any walls in the house? Free up your garage by letting go of garage items that are no longer needed nor usable.

IDEA: Donate tools, hardware, and home improvement items to organizations such as Habitat for Humanity or give away for free onfreecycle.org or nextdoor.com

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Week 51 | Mismatched Tupperware | 52 Weeks To Downsize & Minimalize

Mismatched Tupperware

food-containerWe all seem to find more plastic lids than containers to go with them after a point in time. So what to do with all the Mismatched Tupperware? It can get hard to keep up with!

Mismatched Tupperware Containers and Lids

Any food storage container that is missing a lid is never quite as useful. It actually starts to become a big waste of space.

Spend the week going through your plastic containers, along with all of the extra lids, and when you’re all finished? Recycle things you don’t have a partner for. That’s right! If you can’t find them now, chances are you never will.

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Week 50 | Broken Holiday Decorations | 52 Weeks To Downsize & Minimalize

Broken Holiday Decorations

holiday-decorationsHow many old and Broken Holiday Decorations tend to make it year after year back into your storage bins? It’s time to let them go.

Worn and Broken Holiday Decorations

You may have had great intentions to fix it or simply can’t bear to part with it. But now what?

It sits in the bottom of a storage bin for years.

This year, as you’re decorating around the house for the holidays, or when you go to take down the decorations in a few weeks, get rid of the worn, outdated, and broken items that no longer serve a purpose.