Green Organizing

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Green organizing - Donating cans of paint

“Where can I donate an open can of paint?” This is a question we hear all the time when helping clients clear out garages and basements during an organizing session. There’s the usual list of resources like Craigslist and Freecycle, but I recently discovered a new one dedicated to sharing and selling items left over from home improvement projects called DiggersList.

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National Regifting Day

With so many gift exchanges happening this month, it’s likely you may receive an item or two that you don’t need or love.  A green solution is to regift the item to another person who may need it or treasure it more than you.  This does not mean passing an item that you consider to be useless or silly – this is called “clutter passing”.  The only places clutter should go is a donation bin, recycling bin, or trash bin!

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TeuxDeux

TeuxDeux is a free electronic "to do" site that can be used to keep track of your current and future tasks without using scraps of paper than can get lost in the shuffle. You can easily access the program from you desktop or mobile phone (they have an app for the program here), cross off and delete tasks as you complete them, or move tasks forward to complete later.
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Shred-a-thon Events in your area

Clearing paper clutter is important, but shredding sensitive papers is also critical to ensure against identity theft.