February 28th, 2012
By Kristin Leigh; Moving, Storage & Organization Contributor to USstoragesearch.com I know I’m not the first and only parent to openly admit that I do my very best to keep everything my kids draw, paint, glue, write, cut, glitter, and sticker ever since they held their first crayon. We treasure all of our children’s’ artwork and want to cherish all of their crafts forever. It started off when I saved my first born’s first scribble on a piece of paper, and then his first letter that he wrote, and then again when he made his first stick person. I put it all in a folder to be saved until the end of time. If you think I’m joking, I’m not and believe me when I tell you how painful it was to every so often throw out a piece of my child geniuses’ art. Of course, I have only myself to blame now that I have finally admitted to myself that my child is a hoarder. He loves art, drawing, cutting and creating things which in turn only end up cluttering my kitchen table, 2 kitchen drawers, and 1/3 of my pantry. (See pictures below) Since I have slowly over the [...]
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February 27th, 2012
By Laura Gee, www.USstoragesearch.com Storage and Organization Contributor “If it doesn’t have a purpose, it doesn’t have a place in this house,” is a direct quote from a fellow military wife told me not too long ago. She has been the wife of a Marine for a lot longer than I have and has moved many, many times because of the Marine Corps. Once, she even had to move three houses down the street while living on base because they wanted to renovate the place she was currently living. When I told her that we were just at our first duty station, she spent a solid 15 minutes at a book club meeting expressing to me the importance of being ready to move and how I need to get my house free from “stuff” and learn to just “let it go.” Two things that I’m not good at for sure, but she gave me some great advice. The first bit of advice was to let everything in the house have a six month maximum shelf life. If you have not used it, looked at it, or thought about it in six months, it has got to go. I literally gasped at this [...]
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February 24th, 2012
By Laura Gee, www.USstoragesearch.com Storage and Organization Contributor For the past 6 years, I’ve moved at least once a year—usually twice. Because of college moving and being in a military family, moving has become a natural part of life. There are many, many things that I’ve done to adapt my life to the moving-all-the-time lifestyle. One theme that has permeated my lifestyle is mobility and storage convenience. One thing that I’ve done is to keep my clothing incredibly organized and ready to go at a moment’s notice. In college, I kept most of my clothing stored in two ways: hung or in plastic storage containers. I didn’t rely on using the drawers in my dorm rooms for clothes because it was too inefficient of an option. Keeping my clothing hung meant that every day I could see what I had easily and kept my stuff from getting wrinkled. When it was time to move, I simply cut a small slit in the bottom of a large trash bag and put 10-15 items (still on hangers) in the trash bags with the hooks coming out of the slit and tied off the bottom. Doing this, I could have my entire [...]
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February 23rd, 2012
This week’s video is about how to hit a specific part of your audience–target market. I talk about how car salesmen can teach us a lot about being better writers for social media. By Laura Gee, www.USstoragesearch.com Storage and Organization Contributor Follow USstoragesearch.com, the online leader for self storage, on twitter @USstoragesearch and Laura on twitter @LGJones523
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February 22nd, 2012
By Laura Gee, www.USstoragesearch.com Storage and Organization Contributor Stuffed animals are cute, harmless little things that kids adore—until those fuzzy little friends take over your house one room at a time. Stuffed animal collections start out simple with a little bear or giraffe here and there and then turn into a fluffy zoo that any animal enthusiast would be impressed by. If you aren’t careful, those big-eyed little friends will be sitting over top of your flat screen judging you while you polish off another hour of DVR clearing. There are ways to deal with these animals and their pesky ways of ruining your organized rooms. One thing that we did was to go up with stuffed animal storage. One solution is the stuffed animal hammock. There are a couple of ways to this. The one we chose was a corner one. It was a reinforced net that was triangular in shape so that it mounted nicely in the corner of the room. Stuffed animals were easily tossed in here and were still accessible. The little friends that weren’t as loved and weren’t quite favorite got tossed onto the net first leaving way for the favorites (and cuter ones) [...]
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February 21st, 2012
By Laura Gee, www.USstoragesearch.com Storage and Organization Contributor Video games have progressed technologically by leaps and bounds throughout the last thirty years or so. With all of this advancement has come a lot of stuff. Controllers, game consoles, accessories, game cartridges, CD’s, and ton of other things part of this hobby that so many people enjoy all over the world. It doesn’t take long for all of this stuff to take over an area. There is hope! There is a way for gamers and non-gamers to co-exist—as long as compromises are made on both sides. First of all, save any and all shoe boxes you come across. Shoe boxes are perfect for storage of video game accessories because they are cheap and easy to recover in order to match the look and feel of any room. Video games store nicely in these small boxes. You can have a nice, neat stack of shoes boxes that are filled with video games, but are covered in old maps, floral fabrics, sports themed wrapping paper, or whatever it is that you want to decorate them with. Controllers and other accessories tuck away nicely into boot boxes and other larger boxes. For an [...]
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February 20th, 2012
By Kristin Leigh; Moving, Storage & Organization Contributor to USstoragesearch.com Well, it finally happened, just as our newly expanded family of four was busting at the seams in our previous house, we were finally, after almost a year able to sell our beautiful first home that we had worked so hard on to remodel over the last 6 years. It sounded so simple to us in the early stages of putting our house on the market. Make the house look like a home to any buyer that may come. The trick to that was that we had to make it look like a home for the buyers and not like our home (even though we were currently living there). That was a very difficult feat. With two kids, a dog and zero garage space (yes, I said no garage space), our 1,400 sq. foot house was in dire need of some deep cleaning and storage make over. Luckily for us, we had a storage unit that we used to store all our extra baggage that we had acquired over a lifetime (literally). Besides storing our extra belongings in a storage-unit, we also made some clean-up changes to appease future buyers. [...]
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February 17th, 2012
Has Laura lost it? Check out her latest video blog on how to get attention online in your social media efforts and other forms of communication with your customers. How to get attention in social media and blogs – Laura Jones www.USstoragesearch.com Follow USstoragesearch.com, the online leader for self storage, on twitter @USstoragesearch and Laura on twitter @LGJones523
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February 16th, 2012
By Laura Gee, www.USstoragesearch.com Storage and Organization Contributor Technology is one of the hardest things to organize and keep clean. There are millions of cords falling around all over the place. Each device has a power cord or a charger or a USB cable or something that needs to be plugged in that just wants to get tangled. There are a few things you can do to keep this nightmare under control. The first thing you need to do is label each charger or cord near the part that plugs into the wall. I suggest taping a small piece of paper with the item name on the end of the cord. For example, using a bright pink piece of paper, you could tape “computer power cord” so you don’t have to tug on the wire to figure out what it is connected to on the other end. Labeling the end of the cord helps you when you are trying to plug things into that outlet. You might be able to unplug your camera charger from the wall, but you’re not going to want to unplug your desktop computer most likely. Also, label all chargers in the same fashion. [...]
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February 15th, 2012
By www.USstoragesearch.com Storage Contributor Tom Lewis Even though the world is trying to go paper less, it is important that you still keep tangible copies of some things and keep those things well organized. Each and every day we bring more and more paper into our homes whether we like it or not. Many documents like bills and receipts are necessary to hang on to for a multitude of reasons. Don’t be that guy who takes in a trash bag full of receipts to and audit—organize all of your important papers. Whether it be for tax purposes or proof for potential discrepancies, it is important to keep a current, and organized, filing system. There are many ways to organize your papers, so we’ll just share a few of our favorite tips with you. First, consider using hanging files in a drawer or cabinet. Hanging files are incredibly convenient. It takes a matter of minutes to label the tops of folders. Create folders for things like important government documents like birth certificates, marriage licenses, and even passports. Make a folder for each monthly bill you pay so you can store your statement. A folder for each family member should be set [...]
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