Consumers can now receive cash or credits for recycling their unwanted gadgets, including mobile phones, MP3 players and other consumer electronics using new automated ecoATM eCycling stations. The award-winning eCycling booth is found at various locations across California, USA, and was demonstrated earlier this month at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at Las Vegas. [...]
What A Great Idea — for hanging up your clothes
Kleiderstiele (clothing sticks) Wow! Coat racks that simply lean against the wall. Use a broomstick, make your own. Designed by Berlin based Johanna Dehio.
Get SMART to Get Going
Okay, you’ve resolved you’re absolutely, positively, nothing can stop you going to get organized in 2012 – deal with the piles, finish the projects, dejunk, declutter, and take control. But where oh where to begin? One great way to side step overwhelmed and get moving is to map out a SMART attack. SMART stands for [...]
Florence Savings Bank FREE Shred Day Sat., October 1st
Hope you catch this in time. FSB in Hadley is having a Community Shred Day tomorrow, Saturday, October 1, 9am-12 noon. And it’s FREE!! Bring up to five shoebox size boxes of personal papers and watch them being shredded — while partaking of refreshments. What could be handier and more entertaining? It’s open to the [...]
September 24 Tech Recyling Event
Pay attention Pioneer Valley recyclers — here’s another chance to get rid of all that old technology that’s collecting dust and taking up room in your office or home. On Saturday, September 24, the Greater Easthampton Chamber of Commerce is holding a Tech Recycling Day and it’s open to anyone in the area. Here are [...]
Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet – CVS Offers Safe Disposal Program & October 29th is National Free Drug Collection Day
Here’s an eco-friendly way to get that overflowing medicine cabinet under control. A new, year-round program at area CVS Pharmacies allows customers to mail unwanted prescription and over-the-counter medication to a Texas facility for safe disposal. The postage-paid envelopes cost $3.99 each, which doesn’t seem like too much to pay for a 7″x 8″ envelope that you can fill with medications and [...]
Being Organized Is Not A Virtue
Let’s get something straight: Being organized is not a virtue. There is nothing noble about it. Organized folks aren’t more righteous or saintly than those who constantly lose the battle with their stuff. It’s not a sin to be disorganized; it’s not immoral, nor is it a measure of worthiness. However, being disorganized can certainly [...]
Productive Procrastination: How to Really Get Things Done
There’s nothing like a big, scary, daunting project to send me flying into one of my favorite modes – productive procrastination. You know the kind of project I’m talking about – doing battle with a government bureaucracy by phone, trouble shooting an inexplicable computer problem, assembling the new gas grill with the thirty page instruction [...]
Repeat After Me: Categorize, Capture, Label
Categorize, capture and label –three little words that can make all the difference in helping you get organized and stay that way. STEP 1: CATEGORIZE your stuff. PUT LIKE THINGS WITH LIKE THINGS. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Not so for everyone. When we are little, we spend a lot of our cognitive capital learning to [...]
Now is the Time to SHRED!
A post for IRS time . . . . It’s that time of the year — tax documents have started to appear in your mailbox and there’s no way out of it. Sooner or later you’re going to have to get all those papers, documents and records together and do your taxes. If you’re smart, [...]
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Systems and Solutions for Chaos Control was founded in 1998 by Leslie Arriola Ed.D to help people become better organized in their businesses and homes, and learn how to keep it that way.
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