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Today we would like to share another video highlighting our Residential Organizing services! This client explains her frustrations living in a cluttered, disorganized home and how our team was able to relieve the stress. We helped her family gain control of their home, especially by organizing closets, labeling the kitchen efficiently, and improving storage systems in the laundry room. This client has now been able to decrease clutter in her home, as well as the stress that came with the disorder.

If you could use some expert help at home, organizing your rooms and processes, contact us! You can learn more about our Residential Organizing services (also referred to as “IO at Home”) by clicking here.

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We’ve been working on our videos for months and are very excited to now share some of our past projects and client testimonials with you! Today we are releasing our first services video, featuring one of our favorite residential organizing clients. Take a look at what her organizing challenges were and hear from Alisa Hanft, Organizing Consultant, on what steps we took to help her feel more productive in her space!

If you could use some expert help at home, organizing your rooms and processes, contact us! You can learn more about our Residential Organizing services (also referred to as “IO at Home”) by clicking here.

As we prepare for the holiday season, many of you are undoubtedly worried about finances. All of the holiday decorations, food, festivities, and gifts can add up quickly- and if you’re not careful, can leave a large dent in your bank account. To help you stay on top of your spending this year, we have created a Holiday Spending Checklist, which allows you to allocate expenses within a budget. You’ll be aware of all your holiday spending and won’t find any surprises in your bills.

Get organized now with our Holiday Spending Checklist!

And for more Innovatively Organized checklists, visit our page of Organizing Checklists and Holiday Organizing Resources!

Description:
Apple launched a new app in October that allows you to create and mail personalized cards directly from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. You can take your own pictures and add your own custom text. Then just add an address and place your order!

Abilities:
• Choose from 21 designs (Thank You, Holiday, New Baby, Birthday, Love, and Travel)
• Use your favorite photos already on your camera roll
• Can display the GPS information to show the location it was taken
• Send a card within the US for $2.99 including postage
• Send a card internationally for $4.99 including postage

Great for:
• Creating personalized holiday greeting cards
• Saving time on the hassle of stuffing and addressing envelopes
• All other occasions
• Creating unique cards for your friends and family, like of your child’s soccer game or your birthday celebration

Cost: Free

Written by Tim Hannon, Macintosh Consultant and owner of Sound Support

Do you use Apple's Mail application on your Mac? It's a capable email application and one of its best features is that its abilities can be extended using plug-ins. These plug-ins let you customize Mail so it can better meet your preferences and needs. Here's a list of 9 plug-ins for Mail that'll let you increase your productivity.

MsgFiler lets you quickly file email messages into one of your existing Mailboxes (aka folders). Using either a menu command or a keyboard shortcut you can file a message into a folder. Simply type the first few characters of the mailbox's name and select the desired mailbox from the list of matches.

SpamSieve offers better spam protection then Mail's built-in junk mail filter. It accomplishes this by using Bayesian filtering methods. It require some initial training, but it's very effective.

MailAct-On is an incredibly robust plug-in which lets you use keyboard shortcuts to quickly file, label or flag incoming or outgoing mail messages. That is an over-simplified description of its capabilities. This video introduction and video review will give you a more complete understanding of it's capabilities.

MailTags let's you assign keywords, priorities, categories and due dates to actions mentioned in an email. It lets you escape the constraints of folders by allowing you to organize and find your messages by keyword or other metadata that you've assigned. Made by the same developers, Mail Act-On and MailTags can be used together or separately.

WideMail reconfigures Mail's layout. It moves the message preview area from below the list of messages to the right of it. This layout uses your screen's space more efficiently. Apple realized this layout was very popular so they made it the standard layout in version 5.0 of Mail which comes with Lion, Mac OS X 10.7

Attachment Tamer gives you control over Mail's handling of attachments that you send. Be default, Mail will display an attachment, such as an image, in the body of the email that you're composing. Attachment Tamer lets you change this behavior and send the image as a regular attachment instead.

MessageFont lets you set Mail's default font when you reply to or compose a new email message. Mail's preferences appears to let you set the default font, but this affects only what you see, not what the recipient sees. MessageFont changes which
font is seen by the recipient.

MissingAttachments scans an email message and notifies you if you have referred to an attachment, but forgotten to attach a file. Unfortunately this plug in hasn't been updated to work with recent versions of Mail.

MailUnreadStatusBar displays an icon to the upper right corner of your screen which lists the number of unread email messages you have. You can customize it to track multiple folders. Its icon then displays a menu listing the unread message count for each selected folder and lets you go directly to any of the listed folders.

In my opinion, these are some of the best plug-ins for Mail, but you can read about dozens more at the Hawk Wings web site.

Read more of Tim's tips at Sound Support's blog.

December is a crazy month for everyone. We wanted to help relieve some of your stress by creating a checklist of to do's for the month of December so that nothing falls through the cracks. Each week has a different focus:

Week 1: Schedule your social events
Week 2: Get a jump start on finances
Week 3: Prepare to be "on holiday"
Week 4: Get organized for the New Year

Get organized now with our 31 Days to the New Year Checklist!

And for more Innovatively Organized checklists, visit our page of Organizing Checklists and Holiday Organizing Resources!

Planning a party in Seattle? Check out My Partini to find everything you need to set up your next birthday party, sports event, anniversary party, baby shower, charity event, or dinner. The website is full of local listings, organized by categories like accommodations, catering, florists, DJs, party venues, invitations, and live bands. This great site will help you save time and energy (and therefore, stress) while planning your next event, since you can find ideas all in one place.

Product Spotlight: Single Stackable Photo Boxes

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Description:
Do your photos pile up faster than you can sort them? Do you like to display your trip and holiday photos, but don’t like the look of big, clunky photo albums? These single stackable photo boxes are exactly what you need! You can buy multiple boxes and sort pictures in them by holiday or event. Stick one photo on the outside so you can reference the photos stored inside. Then simply stack or display them around the house, like picture frames.

You’ll love it for:
• Showcasing trip photos in the living room
• Storing kids’ photos in their rooms
• Organizing photos by ocasion

Cost: $14.99

Available at: our Amazon store

You can also try these larger photo boxes, which contain six compartments. They stack and store easily, so you can display them on coffee tables or in home offices.

Description:
Peter Walsh, professional organizer featured on Enough Already!, Extreme Clutter, and Clean Sweep, is now your personal coach. His app guides you through each room in your home to turn “clutter and chaos and into peace and calm.”

Abilities:

Compatible with iPhone and iPad
Instructional videos
Before and after photo galleries of your home to share
Learn 5 practical tools: deciding how to best use your space, accessing your clutter, getting the family involved, taking action, and maintenance

Great for:

Motivating you to get organized
Learning tools for staying organized
Sharing your progress with friends and family

Cost: $5.99

Description:
Receipts are such a hassle! You can’t recycle them because they contain important credit card information, but you also can’t keep them organized because they pile up so quickly. If you’d like a solution for storing receipts digitally, NeatRecipts allows you to scan receipts and documents into your Mac or PC. From there, your information is automatically organized and searchable.

You’ll love it for:
• Organizing your bills, taxes
• Maintaining expenses for your small business
• Uploading on the go (the mobile scanner weighs less than a pound)
• Managing your expenses paperless

Cost: $149.99

Available at: our Amazon store

New Video Release: See how we transformed a Kitchen and Mudroom with Organizing Systems

New Video Release: Learn how we helped organize a Small Space during Residential Organizing

Checklist: Holiday Spending

App of the Week: Cards

Guest Blog: Plug-ins to Increase Productivity

Checklist: 31 Days to the New Year

Innovative Idea: My Partini

Product Spotlight: Single Stackable Photo Boxes

App of the Week: Get Organized!- Peter Walsh

Product Spotlight: NeatReceipts

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