Kids Christmas Ornament Collection
Kids Christmas Ornament Collection
By Basic Organization team member Debbie Baker.
Maybe a shocking article subject for a professional organizer – actually encouraging people to collect? But I may be an anomaly as a professional organizer – I actually love stuff. I think I can fill up an empty space faster than anybody I know! And I adore Christmas stuff!
I find it very hard to resist holiday decorations, particularly Christmas ornaments. Maybe that’s why I decided, when my two girls were infants, to begin a Christmas ornament collection for them both. Every year I would buy them each an ornament and, in an inconspicuous spot and in a coordinating permanent marker color, I would write their initials and the year. When my older daughter graduated from college and started putting up her own tree she took home her ornaments, and she has a great little collection, with ornaments that mean a lot to her. In a few years, my younger daughter will be doing the same thing. And guess what – that will free up space in my ornament storage boxes for me to do more ornament shopping. Yay!
The point is that stuff isn’t the enemy. It is wonderful to have beautiful things that you love, that you love to display, that have meaning to you. But ONLY have what you love, what you use, and what you can keep organized, and store comfortably. And if that includes a special Kids’ Christmas ornament collection for your children, that is A-okay with this professional organizer!
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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.