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GreenPlug Contest - Our Entry

We entered the GreenPlug “What’s Under Your Desk” Photo Sweepstakes this week.

May we "proudly" present our entry:

"As a professional organizer, I help people be better organized so they can spend more time doing the things you really care about.   But in my own office, it’s been less than easy—and I’ve spent some time creating a system under my desk for the maze."

"By attaching the wires to the underneath of the desk (click on picture to enlarge), much of the visual clutter is eliminated.  Maybe this haiku can shed some light on the subject?"

wires and plugs lay

sad, tangled, like a lost love

there is hope with tape!

Okay, we may not win a haiku contest, but maybe we'll win this contest?  Ah, which Beverly Hills lunch hotspot will we go?  The Ivy, Spago, Barney Greengrass, Nate'n Al or maybe someplace simple like Urth Caffé on Beverly?

• Make sure you enter the GreenPlug contest.

UPDATE:  See our entry here, and other entries here.  Also, the contest has been extended through May 1st.

Win a Beverly Hills Lunch With A Brady - If You've Got the Messiest Cable Clutter in the Nation

Win lunch in Beverly Hills with green advocates Christopher Knight and Adrianne Curry, co-hosts of the VH-1 reality show, “My Fair Brady.”

The folks at Green Plug are sponsoring a nationwide photo contest for the messiest cable clutter, and just in time for spring cleaning.

Crest Whitestrips and Women's Day Want To Get You Organized

Want to get your closet organized with the help of a professional organizer?

O-Magazine Offers Organizing Tips and a Sweepstakes

If you're feeling lucky, Los Angeles organizing expert Chris McKenry can help you.

Chris is part of an advertisement in O-Magazine this month for Microsoft's HP Pavilion IQ 770 TouchSmart Computer.  Our colleague offers great tips for organizing your kitchen, home office, wardrobe, mail and time-- many of those tips includes ways you can incorporate technology into your daily life (like we continue to do) by using the TouchSmart.

The HP Pavilion IQ 770 TouchSmart Computer helps plan your family's schedule, manage events and leave personal messages – all at your fingertips, on a touch screen. 

Here's a sample Conquer Your Clutter tip we love:

"Another key to staying organized is keeping items where they are used. You normally don’t leave the milk, fish, and eggs sitting on the dining room table when returning home from the grocery after a difficult day. Think of the mail as perishable and keep those surfaces uncluttered. No matter how tired you are, get in the habit of placing the mail on your desk.

Record events in your TouchSmart calendar and recycle the invitations."

To read more of Chris' Get It Together LA! organizing tricks, check out this month's O magazine on newsstands now.  You can also read the online version and enter to win a variety of prizes (including a TouchSmart and a visit by a professional organizer), by clicking here.

Vern Yip and Microsoft Home Office Want to Give Your Office a Facelift

Vern Yip and Microsoft Home Office are sponsoring a makeover sweepstakes.  Let them know how dreadful your space is, and you could win up to $25,000 in prizes, including:

• A home office makeover designed by HGTV's Vern Yip (pictured right, along with Oprah Winfrey.)
• HP Compaq tc4400 Tablet PC (pictured below, left)
• HP Photosmart C6180 all-in-one
• HP Color LaserJet 2605dtn
• HP Photosmart R967 digital camera
• 1 ream of HP color LaserJet paper and HP ColorLok inkjet paper
• 60 sheets 4 x 6 photo paper
• Microsoft Office Professional 2007 software
• Subscription to Office Live Premium
• Microsoft OneCare
• Zune digital media player

Your office space must be between 12’ x 12’ and 20’ x 20’, have high-speed internet, no known structural, electric, or safety issues, and have at least two (2) standard, functional outlets.

You have less than 1 week to enter.  Click here for rules, prizes and obligations should you walk away as the winner.  Make sure you read the guidelines carefully, a quick scan of the (almost) 4000-word rules notes many important details.

Enter the contest here.  There is no talk about organizing your space, but because Vern is such a super-achiever, expect to see some improvements in that area too!