I can organize you, your home, your business.  I can make your office run more effectively and efficiently than you ever imagines. But what I can’t do, is clean my bedroom.

I used to do a fairly thorough cleaning and rearranging once a year.  I would only do it for one reason – Mom was coming to visit.

Bama and Caity (Oct. 2006)

The last time that happened was 2006.  5 years ago this fall.

When Aunt Mary passed away in January 2007, mom coma out on short notice.  I didn’t have time to “clean”.  One morning she and Erika and I were lying in my bed (I have a really big bed) together.  Mom and I were convincing Erika to go on our up coming cruise with us (she did!).  Mom said something about it being warm so I offered to turn on the ceiling fan.  Erika scoffed saying she didn’t want one of the dust bunnies to fall off and bite her.  At the time we all laughed.  But even the memory of that is not enough to motivate me to clean my room.

Kathy has the house for sale.  She holds an Open House every weekend.  The realtor brings people by to show the house.  My room is still a mess.  None of these reasons motivate me to clean.

I am going to have to move soon.  Kathy has bought a new home and whether I go with her or not, I am going to have to clean my room.

I am not ready to face a clean room knowing Mommy is not going to come and visit me anymore.

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We ship a bunch of stuff.

I sell things on Ebay.

I have family living on the other side of the country.

And my son is getting ready to move to Australia.  AUSTRALIA!  Acccck!

Sometimes I have to stop and wonder if it is worth all the bother.

The gathering the packing the taping the labeling the driving the shipping the waiting blah blah blah blah blah.

But when I use The UPS Store it cuts all of that complaining down to shreds.

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From Good Housekeeping April 2010:

“Choose concentrated or “ultra” cleaning products, which use 50 to 60 percent less packaging than traditional formulas while cleaning just as thoroughly.”

Ok, yes, this is a good idea, again, in theory.  But really, unless you are the only person to use the product, what makes you think the other people are only using the right amount?

Take laundry detergent, I use a capful, I don’t look at the bottle to see the “recommended” amount, it is ingrained in my head that a capful is what I should use and less will not get my clothes clean.  So really this is just not going to work for me.

From Good Housekeeping April 2010:

Get off Junk-mail lists.  Register with the Direct Marketing Association’s DMA choice mail preference service and you’ll see a significant reduction in mail after 3 months.

UGH!  Why can’t mass mailers stop being allowed to mass mail?  How about if you send out a gabillion postcards in one month instead of giving you a discounted rate we are going to charge you MORE!  Yes, I know the postal service is in dire straits and they keep raising their prices for the little guy because people use email now instead of the mail.  But good grief, do we really want to pander to the spreaders of this ugly disease?

Also, retailers, can we talk a minute?  Perhaps if you didn’t send the same catalog to three different people at the SAME address, perhaps you could then curb your costs a bit and lower your prices a tad, ya think?  And we won’t even mention how many catalogs we get for died people who haven’t shopped with you , since ya know they DIED!

But in the meantime, go ahead and click on the link up above and get yourself listed.  It can’t hurt.  Or do you like receiving mail no matter if it is junk or not?

Hmmmmmm wonder if there is a quit bothering me I have no money for you Mr. Bill Collector list?

No?

Just wondering.

When you think of Fed Ex, you think of sending packages.  At least I always do.  Now, within the last 5 or so years, you link the name Kinko’s with it and think of copies and printing and such as well.

But have you have heard the name Fed Ex and thought of Organizing or Time Management?  You should.

Fed Ex has a new Blog that is all about how to make your life easier, whether at home or at the the office.  And especially at a home office.

All next week they will be posting up ideas for New Year’s Resolutions and helping you to keep them.  They range form organinzing, to event planning to just figuring out a time for you to breathe amongst the chaos that is our lives.  I love the placemat idea!

There is information on how to utilize your local Fed Ex store to your best advantage, like Fed Ex Office, Print Online.  You can send stuff to their printers and pick it up at your convienence.  Even ask for a certain number of copies to be made before you get there, all from the comfort of your favorite chair (and even without pants!).

I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of FedEx Office. In addition, Mom Central sent me a gift card to thank me for taking the time to participate.  The opinions and view are mine all mine.

We haven’t spoken much about the Home Office in my Fantasy House.

I went surfing around looking for cool Office Furniture

and came up with some pretty nifty stuff.

Of course a desk is in order.  There is a beautiful simple plan desk called the Zen Desk, but meh, I like me some cubby holes and places to put stuff, cuz, really, you can never have enough places to put all your stuff.  I know, I can hear some of you saying right now “You don’t need all that stuff do you?”  And to you I reply in the immortal words of George Carlin “One man’s stuff is another man’s ****!”.  Well, you know what he said.

Anyhoo, back to the office, I am very particular about my chair.  I don’t want a big ol fancy executive type chair.  Although when I was a secretary I did get a chair that was made for BIG people.  And I am big.  Not only width but height, almost 6 foot.  So comfort is more of an issue than cute.

What else do I need for my office?

Are you prepared for anything? Or do you just think you are?

Check out my post on being prepared for an emergency and receive an emergency preparedness kit courtesy of California Volunteers We Prepare program.

Just go up to the top there and click on the Time and Space Management.

See you in the next room.