An Update on My Personal Project
An Update on My Personal Project
To keep myself accountable, I am reporting on my own personal organizing project today. Just over a month ago, I showed you my piles of photos and photo albums.
My goal is to get these in order. Even though I do this every day for others, I am moving a little slowly on my own project. To begin, everything was moved into my dining room. In hindsight, not the best move for me. It sat there for a month! I then needed the dining room for “dining”, so we moved everything to my office. Now it’s crowding the space I use every day, and this has me motivated to move forward.
I have spent some time removing photos from old “sticky” albums. I have gotten through a whole box of albums, I think 6 in all. Some photos are easier to remove from the albums than others, but mostly it’s a mess. I find myself willing to do this while watching TV and I am having some fun going down memory lane while working on this.
The piles haven’t reduced much in size, but it’s moving forward. I hope to empty another box of albums in the next 30 days. I’ll let you know.
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Great project Janet! Here’s a tip I learned about safely removing pictures from the sticky back album pages: slide a length of dental floss between the photo and the backing, starting at a corner and gently move downward behind the photo to loosen it from the sticky page. This works especially well on the older books, because you can easily tear the photos trying to lift them off.
Thanks Jackie. I’ll try the dental floss trick.