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Drive Yourself Organized?

Pam McCutcheon, an amazing Wichita, Kansas-based professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Cutters sent us a photo of the license plate on one of her company vehicles.  Her tags are not unlike ours, pictured here.  We love the Kansas state tag line "Home on the Range."

 

What do you think of messages like these on the road?  Are they fun or are they too much "big brother" for you?

 

Update: Shortly after posting our picture, Pam received a column mention in the Witchita Business Journal noting our posted photo.

 

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A sign at LA's "The Grove" tells you to get organized

 

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Organizing Emergency: How To Find A Lazy Susan

Henia Bodalski, a New Jersey interior designer and owner of Design Studio Interiors wrote the following question recently and agreed to have us feature it here on the OrganizingLA Blog.

"While looking through Better Homes & Garden, March 2008 issue and reading the "Vanity Fair" article on page 62, OrganizingLA endorsed a quick turnaround, Lazy Susan-style turntable in the photo.  I also loved the under the sink door organizer. 

Can you forward the manufacture of these products?  It’s exactly what I’ve been in pursuit for an interior design client."

Hi Henia!

You've now only discovered the Holy Grail of organizing?  We did not choose the products in the photos for the Better Homes and Gardens piece. However, the turntable in the vanity was from Target.   We like it too for the sleek, stainless steel sides.  The unit might have a rubber or coating on the top and may not or may not be from Michael Graves.  A quick look at Target.com did not turn up anything that looked like this under the search terms lazy susan, turntable, or Michael Graves.  But I think they have these in the stores usually in the housewares department.

KangaRoom Storage(pictures right) makes the door organizer.  The item was not on their website when the BH&G piece was published. We could not find it, but here it is.

You can also get something similar to these items at the Container Store.  If you are in New Jersey, the Cherry Hill location is closer than Paramus. I know you can get them direct from Rubbermaid,too.  Lazy Susans come in several sizes, wood, plastic, marble, metal, copper and that means also a variety of price points.  Kangaroom makes the only real cool door organizer that we know of.

image courtesy Stacks and Stacks and KangaRoom Storage

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4th Annual Los Angeles Organizing Expo - Wrap Up

The 2008 Los Angeles Organzing Expo has come and gone.  Here's a recap of what happened, along with some pictures.

Organize Your Possessions Online With MyThings

Retaining appliance, gadget and electronic warranties, manuals and email receipts has traditionally been very tough, especially when you need to locate one of them and you don't have a system.  It's likely all the items are stored all over the place (unless of course you hire us to organize them beforehand.)

Well, today might be your lucky day.  This week through ReadWriteWeb we discovered My Things, an online service that aims to track your online purchases and organizes the receipts, recalls, manuals, downloads and stolen property reports.  Here's what their website says:

"MyThings is for people with too much stuff. Or, conversely, people who don’t have that much, but really like what they own. We’re a free service that helps you organize your possessions online, whether that’s electronics, jewelry, antiques, or your vast collection of Smurfs action figures. We also provide services like valuation, accessories, manuals, repair info, recycling, donation, a one-click sell-on-eBay feature, and an easy way to report to Trace, a global database of lost or stolen goods."

The company is announcing some new investment money that will presumably be used for holiday marketing.

Sounds wonderful!  What would you store online, if you could?

• Visit MyThings and their blog.
• Check out their latest post Collecting as a Hobby: a Waste of Money and Space?

Source and Image:  ReadWriteWeb

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Domino Magazine Bazaar Hits Los Angeles

 

We're so excited that Domino Magazine is hosting their second annual shopping event at H.D. Buttercup this weekend, Friday-Sunday (October 17-19). The magazine comes alive in over 20,000/sq. feet of display space, we can only imagine what they're planning.  The new book Domino: The book of decorating has just hit bookstores this week.

Buy your $20 tickets for Domino Bazaar here. Each ticket receives a year's subscription to the magazine.

As we mentioned in our new Experts Guide Facebook group, we're hoping to attend the VIP party.  Can't wait to report back any organizing wonders.

Update 10/16 - Check out these pretty incredible pictures from the 2007 Domino Bazaar in New York.

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Martha Stewart Good Things Event (10/06)

Method Home invades H.D. Buttercup (9/06)

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