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5 things I love about Amazon Photos (and a few things I don’t)
5 Things I Love about Amazon Photos (and a few things I don’t love) 1 – Viewing Photos on Amazon Echo Show or Amazon Fire TV Stick This is my absolute favorite things about Amazon Photos and the entire reason that I started using it on a regular basis. We have the 1st...
Let Go to LET’S GO!
HOPE beginnings When starting HOPE in 2007, I was excited to help clients with ALL of their organizing needs. I loved taking on any challenge, but quickly learned that some things were more fun than others (garages were last on the list and closets were on the top of...
Fabulous 45 Fotos: Organizing the photos of my life
Being totally honest again: this photo organizer’s photos are not completely organized. I wish I could just devote several days to work on my photos, but most of the time I am spending time on client projects. (And let's be honest: if they were totally organized, I...
Organizing My Family Photos, Part 1
Total honesty here: this Omaha family photo organizer’s photos are not completely organized. I wish I could just devote several days to work on my own family’s photos, but most of the time I am spending time on client projects. Last year, I gave my parents each a...
How does a Photo Organizer back up all of her phone photos?
We are in a world where a vast majority of our photos are taken on the device that is always with us instead of traditional cameras. I still like to take photos on a camera, but a majority of the photos I take are on my phone and it is really important to me that I...
Get in the picture
Like most people, I don’t love having my picture taken! (And let's be honest: most women are too busy taking the photos of their families and friends and are often not in the picture.) My personal experience is that I am always thinking, "I don’t have any makeup on"...
Organizing Your Taxes: Inside an Organizer’s Taxes (sort of)
How to Organize Your Taxes I just submitted all of my tax documents to my accountant and thought this would be a great thing to share since taxes are something EVERYONE deals with! So let's talk about how to organize your taxes. Disclaimer: I am not a tax professional...
Organizing a Legacy: keeping the past in the present through organizing
For generations, families have handed their “important” stuff down to the next generation. It almost seems like part of human nature. I have read several articles about how the younger generations don’t want the stuff and how upsetting this can be for the older...
Inside a Professional Organizer’s House: Storage Room Organization (Part 2)
One of the many things that I love about our old home is the large amount of storage space. We have two large storage rooms in the basement. Sometimes when you do have large storage rooms, it is easy to turn them into a dumping ground because you think you have all...
Inside a Professional Organizer’s House, Part 1
HOPE Organizing turned 10 in the spring of 2017! To celebrate, I invited clients, potential clients, friends, and family to an Open House in September. This was a true "open house" in that I let people look inside almost every closet, drawer, and cabinet in my home....