As a trained and experienced Utah organizer (professional organizer) I know that organizing saves busy people just like you valuable time and money. My name is Vicki Winterton. I work with clients located in the Salt Lake and Utah Valley areas. In this Utah organizer blog I share a wide variety of organizing tips for organizing YOUR home, time, family, workplace and life.

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Are you ready to:

… increase productivity in your small-business (an office of 1 to 5 workers)

… stop working so hard and instead work smarter?  ~Save  yourself Time

… kick your business into high gear?  ~Save Yourself Money

If you answered YES, then this is your lucky day! With the forms, templates, checklists, and worksheets in this business mastery set you will have at hand the resources, expert tips, and proven ways to boost you confidence, quickly increase productivity, even improve the bottom line in your small business. The pdf templates in this set are the very same forms I use with my small-business clients and my work-from-home clients. The included templates touch on each of the workplace focuses below:

1. Workflow improvement
2. Time management including project and task management
3. Space management including how to create a power office
4. Data processing and storage
5. Paper management
6. No-cost or low-cost phone apps to improve office efficiency

WHY store important documents for easy access?

In a nutshell, your most important papers are called vital records. (Think: identity docusments, birth certificates, marriage certificates, social security cards, life insurance policies, etc.) You must store important documents in such a way that it allows  for easy accessibility for it to be any good to you.  YOUR vital records are papers with information that is crucial about:

1. You
2. Your Family
3. Your Home
4. Your Finances
5. Your Health
6. Your History

WHAT are some of the “roadblocks” when you store important documents:

• You don’t know where to start (Our binder kit comes with 8 pre-labeled binder tabs AND easy to understand step-by-step instruction sheets.)
• You don’t know what to gather and store (Our binder kit has 6 brief lists for the collection of specific needed documents.)
• You are stuck in the unknown (Our binder kit includes: contact forms, valuables lists, a total of 25 forms AND a table of contents.)

WHO needs a Vital Records “Grab & Go” Binder Kit to store important documents?

• Families with children
• Mid-lifers facing possible future illness
• Seniors

Once completed, your vital records storage binder will store copies of your most important papers in a “grab  & go” binder for easy access and quick retrieval. (Be sure to let someone you trust know where these important papers are kept so they can find them if you are indisposed.)

WHEN should you begin the process to store important docuements?

Unexpected Death

Often, we are left to deal with emergencies without the necessary paperwork and knowledge to make decisions and quickly move forward. You don’t want to worry about retrieval of these important documents at a time when emotions run high. This project is one you’ll want to make sure is done correctly. Make 2012 the year you gather, organize, and store important documents for yourself and your immediate family members. I AM CERTAIN that the time you invest now in completing this project will offer you greater security and calm. Peace of mind is worth a little “now time” … isn’t it?

 Order your own Vital Records Binder Kit today at a saving of 38% + FREE SHIPPING anywhere in the continental USA.   Your final cost is only $35.   That’s a discounted savings of $16 + FREE shipping on a sure-fire way to store important documents. NOW THAT’S A DEAL!

To purchase your  binder kit through PayPal click on the link below OR contact us directly to make payment by check.

Be sure to include the mailing address when you buy so we can get YOUR Vital Records Binder Kit delivered in plenty of time for Mothers Day.

My gift to you this Mothers Day is two FREE downloads to make the hardest AND most rewarding job on earth a little easier. Simply click on the green links below to view and print each download.

FREE Freezer and Fridge Categories Download

FREE Chore Chart for Kids Download (including printing links)

Other tools to help Organize you or your Mother

Home organizing services (click to look at my gift certificate page)

If you struggle with gift ideas for Mothers Day consider the clutter-free gift idea suggestions below:     Read more…

I recently read the book ‘Getting Organized’ by Chris Crouch. He focuses on changing behavior and points out that anytime we encounter a new idea there are three possible outcomes:

1. Nothing will happen
2. We will alter our behavior in some minor ways
3. The idea will significantly change our behavior and our life forever

A year ago I worked with my client Susan in Alpine, Utah. She greeted me when I arrived with this statement, “I am just NOT an organized person!” “My mind does NOT work that way.” She and I worked side-by-side for a total of 10 hours. Susan learned, Read more…

Photo Organizing in my own home is a routine project that I attack quarterly. Each time a new season rolls around I spend one day photo organizing including sorting, purging, labeling (naming) and storing my new digital photographs and prints. Read on down the page for 5 photo organizing tips I’ve come to understand over the years. But before you get to these tips, I’ve got great news for you.

Because I love to learn how to better organize anything & everything, I recently spent a few days researching the best ideas AND free and low cost products available for organizing printed images and digital photos. I have created a $7.70 downloadable product, my Photo Organizing Mastery Set, that comes immediately to your email inbox and includes:

• The best priced photo scanner and where you can rent it
• My “top 10″ photo organizing tips
• My 5 step SPARK guide for easy photo organizing
• The 5 best FREE photo managers for digital photos
• The useful 4-point naming formula for digital photographs
• My “best tools & products” page for printed  images
• Where to get FREE digital photo editing tools

 Now to my 5 Photo Organizing Tips   Read more…

via MarthaStewart.com

We all know that a garage recycling center is a useful idea. However, most garages do not have an actual organizing system in place to make recycling easily doable. MarthaStewart.com has a good idea and offers some nice recycle container stickers to make the job look good. She reminds us that recycling may save the planet — but it ruins the corner of your kitchen or garage until collection day. An easy-to-make garage recycling center can help you set a workable system in place.

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If you need help organizing your Utah located home spaces, contact us.

If you live outside Utah, we do virtual organizing sessions nationwide.

One of my favorite holiday traditions is hosting a game night for my extended family. This night includes those that live locally and those that come to town for the holidays. Typically we have 30 attend.

I just watched a TV segment produced by Stephanie Bryson of Studio 5 titled Best Family Games 2011. (Stephanie produced a few of the segments in which I was invited to be the organizing expert.) Stephanie included some fun games in the segment. Her criteria for the games she chose to highlight:

• Easy to learn
• Wide age appeal
• Quick to play

Of those listed, my personal favorites are included here   Read more…

Today I read a report in the local edition of Sunday’s paper. It came from the Parade insert. It contained many ways to pass along good will through actions to those soldiers who have served or are currently serving. Choose one of their eleven (11) suggestions listed below to show your gratitude to the brave men and women who have served at great cost to them and their families.   Read more…

Just a quick reminder about the Global Women’s Summit in LA this upcoming weekend, October 28 & 29, 2011. If you live in the LA area, this is a great opportunity to expand yourself and mingle with other women excited to strengthen women worldwide. We hope you’re coming! To view the details, click on this link:   http://youtu.be/FQV_3H7IFeo

This inspiring 2-day event features over twenty-five speakers including Marianne Williamson, and Dr. Paula Fellingham CEO of The Womens Information Network which hosts my podcast → The Organized Woman Show.   Read more…

Clean out your medicine cabinet this Saturday in Utah Valley.

Bring: Unused or expired prescription AND over the counter medications

Do NOT Bring: syringes or other sharps tools

More Information on where to drop off your unused or expired prescriptions within Utah.

Listen to my podcast show titled Clean out the Medicine Cabinet for more useful information.