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0 Motivation Monday – A Cleaning Game

This was my very first Motivation Monday. It was done Feb 7, 2012! It is one of my favorites! (Head Phone Allert… Don’t have the kids in the room when you listen to the video or have head phones on, it may sound a bit risqué, as you can probably see in Katie’s face, but I was […]

0 Fun Hack to Be Productive and Do What We Need to Do!

Wouldn’t you love to feel like the master of your own universe? Knowing exactly what you’re going to do as soon as your feet hit the floor, has a ripple effect that creates momentum and adds a sense of urgency and importance to your day. Let me ask you… when you wake up, do you […]

0 Inspiration

0 Doing a ‘chore’ we don’t wan to do

This is what we are going to do this week: Take 15 minutes every single day, in a section of your house or take care of something in your life you have been putting off and spend 15 minutes attending to it. Tackle something that bothers you, something that you are not really fond of […]

0 Complete: Clean a Messy Room with Me Series

I started this blog where we clean a messy room together.  I decided to do it as a series, and I am calling it: “How to Clean a Messy Room” (creative right? LOL) In May, while getting ready to go on a trip to Ireland I was put in that awkward position of packing for […]

0 Clean a Messy Room with Me Series

Last week I started this blog where we clean a messy room together.  I explained that the reason I did it was I had a series on “How to Clean a Messy Room” from a long time ago. One of my children moved out of the nest and left a mess and I didn’t want […]

0 How to stay focused and productive when cleaning

Have you ever said this? “Today, I’m going to clean up the house and THIS TIME, it’s going to stay that way!” And then do you pull out more than you can put back, making more of a mess than when you started? I’ve done that… lots of times! Or do you ever do what […]

0 Clean the house with me today?

This is my first group decluttering/cleaning day It is not too late for you to join me. Five to six hours set aside to get work done in the house with direction and motivation, inside an online meeting.If you have time set aside today to get housework done, why not make it count! Here are super […]

0 I want to succeed in my life

Did you know that the Organizationally Challenged Person (YOU!) have all that it takes built in to succeed? … and that 92% of all people that set goals don’t reach them? Did you know that out of the 8% that do achieve their goals, the majority of them are Organizationally Challenged? There is a level of spontaneity and creativity that […]

0 Throwback Thursday – Throw it Out Thursday 2012

I decided to do a “Throwback Thursday!” And I thought my first “Throw it Out Thursday” was a perfect share! I asked my sister Maria if she would let me video tape her getting rid of stuff. It was 2012! (WOW! I’ve been doing this for a long time!) Emily is in it too, She […]

0 “Messy People are just Productive Genius” no baloney!

Eight percent of all people in the world know how to get what they want. How do I know that? Because that is the percentage of people who realize their goals. Ninety-two Percent of all people who set goals do not achieve them (I know you’re not surprised) I have a question for you, do you think that all of those […]

0 A Luncheon with Pam Young and Kathy Roberts

I am in Vietnam and there has been a Typhoon. DON’T ASK! It has been a real adventure, lots of fun, but serious drama 🙂 I have needed to get a message out to you about a luncheon Pam Young and I have scheduled for this month. But with all the chaos, and wi-fi interuptions […]

0 What it means to be right brained, disorganized and why you’re amazing just as you are

If you have ever wondered why you couldn’t get it together, why you can’t keep the house together and clean, why you can’t learn from those who are the guru’s of organizing no matter how many times you read their books and articles, and why you can’t seem to implement what they are saying to […]

0 How to Bring Peace and Harmony at Home

In September of 2016 I took a drive to Virginia by myself, from NJ it is about a 7 hour trip. Elizabeth, a member of my Tidy Tutor Family knew about it from a Facebook Post and private messaged me. She let me know that her home was located half way into my journey, and […]

0 My Spring declutter Promise and my vulnerability

I did this video to kinda apologize… I promised a regular video blog but I kinda dropped the ball. I didn’t keep it going cause I didn’t like how I looked in any of the videos I tried to do. I won’t write any more. I’ll let the video speak for itself. Love, Kathy The […]

0 The Pack Rat, The Women, and The Wardrobe Series! – Simplifying Life By Creating A Uniform

The Pack Rat, The Woman and The Wardrobe – Series 1 – How Much Clothes Do We Need? This is going to be fun! This is the first post of a video series I am doing to determine how much we really need in the category of clothing. I am going to offer insight so […]

0 Preparing For Spring!

In the North East it is still cold, there is snow on the ground but it is melting! I’m doing some videos so that we will be prepared for the change in season. Here is one thing we can do that will prepare us. When you are washing clothes, when clothes are either going in the […]

2 Spring Has Sprung!

It was spring a few days ago and I started to do some “prepare for Spring Videos”. Here is the first one, look for a series of preparing for spring videos in your mail box. If you are not hooked up with me via email get your name and email in so that you won’t […]

0 Room Cleaning 101

I used to be so overwhelmed with housework, especially when a room was a real mess. To avoid going to bed with a pint of Hagendaz and a spoon, setting a goal to get the house cleaned up needed to be done specifically. We can’t just say “My Goal is to have a clean kitchen.” […]

0 Room Cleaning 101

I used to be so overwhelmed with housework, especially when a room was a real mess. To avoid going to bed with a pint of Hagendaz and a spoon, setting a goal to get the house cleaned up needed to be done specifically. We can’t just say “My Goal is to have a clean kitchen.” […]

0 Dreams Coming True and Getting Organized

What does Dreams Coming True and Getting Organized have to do with each other? EVERYTHING!! How many things do you NOT do because you have to get the house cleaned up first? How many things do you NOT do because of the overwhelm that your everyday life brings with it? How many things do you NOT do […]

0 The power of daily routines

Joh C Maxwell said… I had just read that quote and thought about how true that statement is… so I did this video just outside the gym to talk to you about it. Us OCP (Organizationally Challenged People) Tend to think that doing a daily routine is boring and rigid and we don’t want any part of that. […]

0 How To Have Your Most Organized Year Yet



You know what the deal is… A New Year is here. New goals, new hopes and dreams of making this year better than last year. If you’re like most everybody, you start out with great intentions but they never last, and before ya know it you don’t even remember what you wanted anymore. Except for […]

0 Getting over the Holiday Blues

The holiday season is a difficult time for most of us. After Christmas is over we can get into a funk, especialy with a new year approaching. Lots of people are lonely on Christmas day, and when it is all over it can really make us feel even worse looking back at it. Or mayeb for […]

0 Free “Gift Giving Template” for you :)

Since I got my act together back in 1989 the Holiday Season has become a joyful time for me (that was not always the case!) because the stress of all the to-dos have become a thing of the past for me.  I still pinch myself every year. The saying, “If you fail to plan you […]

0 Change your lightning scattered energy to Electric Focused energy!

As creative people we usually like to do more than one thing at a time, appearing unfocused to the vast population…   …and because we don’t know that “it’s OK” and we don’t know how to harness our creative energy we often appear to fail in projects, in housekeeping & many other things we embark […]

0 What do you want for Christmas?

I received some comments on Facebook about making it available to have Tidy Tutor University as a Christmas Present. So… I made a way for you to ask for it! With all the clutter we have, the last thing we want is another thing. Asking for TTU for Christmas is like asking for a gift […]

0 What Tidy Tutor Can Do for You – How to Get Organized

In September I gave notice to move out of my apartment, and just after it was rented  I was told that the place I was going to move into probably wasn’t going to be ready till October. So, I had to figure out what I was going to do for the month of September. I had an […]

0 Happy Thanksgiving

I did this video back in 2012, a twist on “The Night Before Christmas” It is titled, “The Night Before Thanksgiving” If you are stressed about the holidays, this might help 🙂 Twas the night before thanksgiving and all through the house, my kids were having cocktails and I was a grouch. Knowing tomorrow would […]

0 Showering after Workout & 1 Time Management Tip

If you go to the gym early in the morning this tip will help you make a really great start to your day. And if you have been struggling to fit exercise into your life this could be the way to go so that it will actually happen. Going to the gym when you would […]

0 3 Hard Questions about Homemaking answered

Here is a recording of the live Q and A I did recently… There were 3 questions asked by recent Tidy Tutor University Students that I feel you would love to hear the answers to… Marcie asked: How about when things get crazy busy at work and in the family when you don’t even have […]

0 Reinventing Yourself After 50

As I am writing this I will be on my way to Thailand. I was so afraid last year when I went to Vietnam. I got my Passport for the first time and I opened up the envelope that just arrived in the mail on video to share with you. Before this travel I have […]

0 Allowing Ourselves To Be Vulnerable

It was 3 years after my divorce & I just moved back into my house, I had rented it out and moved into a small apartment with my then 16 year old daughter. The renters had somewhat trashed my home and I was faced with a lot of work to do. At the same time […]

0 What Tim Said…

I recently had a webinar and Tim (one of my original students) joined it. Someone asked a question about Tidy Tutor University. They said there are so many videos and so much help that I offer on Youtube for free, they wanted to know why they should enroll in my course. What else could I […]

0 It can happen, I promise, No bullshit!

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0 Write It Down Final Part

I know the crazy that happens between the ears of the OCP (organizationally Challenged Person) who remembers that TODAY is the dance recital! or tomorrow is the day you have to bring 5,000 cookies to church and it’s 12:30 in the morning and you just got into bed. Or worse! That YESTERDAY was the dance […]

0 Write it down, Continued…

As promised, one tip a day till September 1st as an end of summer gift from me. Yesterday I sent you a blog with no video, and I promised a video today with more details about the “WRITE IT ALL DOWN” strategy. I can not do a video because I am “Healing”. Please read between […]

0 To be at the top of your game – Write it down. Write it ALL down.

OK, so this end of summer tip doesn’t have a video attached to it, nonetheless it is a life changer. On a side note: tomorrow I will do a video that touches on this subject, and also picks up where it leaves off. Here goes! This is going to be short and sweet! BUT don’t […]

0 Get Organized Tip That Makes Life So Much Easier

As Promised! A strategy a day till September 1st that will set us up to have absolute success for the upcoming changing season. In this video I talk about one thing that I do that makes life so much easier. I don’t talk about it in this video (I do in my course) but I […]

0 Lets wrap up the summer with joy!

The summer is quickly coming to an end (here in the United States anyway). I want to give you an end of summer gift! Labor Day is just around the corner and all of the To-Dos that come along with fall will follow close behind. Over the next 2 weeks, I will send you videos […]

0 Tell me what you want, what you really really want!

Don’t you hate it when you NEED something but no-one will listen? How often do people ask us what we need or want? I realized something… I have never asked YOU what YOU wanted from me. So… now I am. I want to know what it is. What do you want from me? What do […]

0 Used on TTT Site: Sentimental Clutter & Minimalism

This has happened to me recently. It isn’t like I didn’t catch it when I was dejunking, I thought the “sentimental clutter” I had was okay being there, after all, I had plenty of storage space to keep it. There was a broken figurine that I came across in my attic. It was a Lenox […]

0 What If Everyone Was Stopping At Your House?

Debbie posted in our private group, letting us know about her recent triumph! (Please see it below) I asked Debbie if I could share it with you, and she was happy to help  spread the word about the success she’s experienced because of  Tidy Tutor University! Debbie knows how hard it is to keep up with […]

0 What Do You Want Me to Talk about on Facebook Live!

Facebook Does “Live Video” Now! And I will do one every day! Let me know what you would like me to talk about and I will be sure to make them my topics for the live videos. During this impromptu, “Are the Kids Driving You Crazy” video I did yesterday, Lilly put her fingers in […]

0 Now Is THE Best Time To Start An Organizing Challenge

Have you ever thought about why it’s so hard to get a New Year Resolution to stick? I have a theory about ONE of the reasons… A BIG reason. I want you to think about this… In January, we just went through the most challenging time of the year! We have abused our bodies with […]

0 Our Dejunking Challenge!

OK… Imagine this… Your Dream Job Called…and you’ve been hired! They accepted your pay requirement and added a mega bonus because they are so happy that they found you! You not only got the job, but the request you made to be transferred to their location in *Fill in the blank* was granted! Hawaii, New York, […]

0 Creative Motivation to Clean up a room

We are creative creatures but let’s face it, being creative has gotten us into a lot of trouble! Beginning on a crafty project often spells disaster for us, before we know it… making dinner get’s put off, doing laundry is forgotten about, food shopping can wait, cleaning up the house is put on the back […]

0 Crisis Cleaning 101

This was actually the first video I ever did. It was in July of 2011,  before I was “The Tidy Tutor.” All I knew then was I wanted to help people who were just like me get organized, but I wasn’t sure how I could do it. I asked God actually, and this video was his idea, […]

0 Getting Organized, Setting Goals

Once a week members of my “Tidy Tutor Insiders” get together and we have a live online meeting (I call the Cawfee Tawks) and I wanted to share one of them with you today. The topic: “The Fear of Getting it together”. Have you ever noticed that when you get closer and closer to a […]

0 One thing to do that makes cleaning easy!

Keeping the house clean is so much easier when you have things all together in a basket instead of loose things on shelves and on surfaces. In the bathroom on the vanity is a great place to utilize a nice wicker basket and all the stuff that you normally keep on the vanity, keep in […]

0 One thing I hated about being a mother :(

I have 5 children, and while I loved being a mommy, so many of the years I spent with my kids was yelling about the mess, the lost homework, the missing book, trying to get them to help out around the house, & clean their rooms, you know what I’m talking about! Some days getting […]

0 Get Motivated And Get Started!

Do you need a stress free couple of months? Has the first four months of 2016 felt a bit like a race to catch up without any relief in sight? How about at home? Is there a constant list of “things to do” that just keep piling up and nothing seems to be getting done […]

0 Too Much Stuff – To Buy Or Not To Buy

I went for a walk to get something to eat, and I passed some things on the street. A really cool beach bag was on a rack in front of a store and I really liked it AND it was only $15! BUT… the thing is, I don’t really need a new beach bag, so, […]

0 Just do it anyway – How to keep it going

When we want something to happen for us, WHY don’t we just do it (like Nike said!) Making excuses doesn’t help at all. But we find reasons NOT to do what we want to do, which are excuses in disguise. I was asked the question many times, “How can I fit exercise into my routine,” […]

0 minimalist living room, diy wall art for living room

There was a request made, asking me to show how I did my living room wall art on the cheep that I had spoken about a few times, so I did a periscope showing how it was done… and here it is. When I moved from my 4 bedroom house I left with very little […]

0 Capsule wardrobe essentials

This past weekend I did marathon Periscopes. If you don’t know what “Periscope” is, it is a new technology that allows people to be connected via live video. The person doing the Periscope can be seen but the viewers can’t, BUT they can communicate through the keyboard, so there is an exchange, it’s fun. Periscopes […]

0 Feeling Overwhelmed, where do I begin?

Have you ever felt like a deer in headlights? You know what I mean don’t you? A deer is crossing the street at night, and suddenly a car is on the road, he turns to look at it and is paralyzed because of the headlights shining in his eyes, and even though it would most […]

0 Decorating, Minimalism and Living Authentically

While at The Home Depot  the other day I was thinking about how decorating and minimalism seem to be an oxymoron. I had just gotten paint for my living room. I’ve lived at my new place for a year having done nothing to it, short of the getting a couch, tv, and end table. I moved from my […]

0 Family Celebrations & The Perfect Holiday

We celebrate Easter and part of our tradition is to color eggs. This was the first time that my grand daughter could do this, and Emily (My daughter) asked me if I wanted to color eggs with them. I get the video set up as Grandma’s do, and when I watched it I thought how […]

0 Spring Cleaning, Do we need it?

What is it about spring that makes every woman in the world think that it is time to scrub the house down from ceiling to floor? We know many women who do this, the OGPs (Organizationally Gifted People) of the world. Their houses are immaculate, yet still, spring comes and they determine that it is […]

0 Don’t Pass it Up Pick It Up Cawfee Tawk

Recently I invited everyone to be on a Cawfee Tawk because the recoding didn’t record and I had to re-do it and didn’t want to be all alone talking to no one. So here is the replay. [video_player type=”url” placeholder=”https://blog.thetidytutor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-07-at-2.39.24-PM.png” url1=”” url2=”” width=”560″ height=”315″ align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”20″]aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tL2Nhd2ZlZS10YXdrL2N0LXJlZG8tMy0xLTE2LWRvbnQtcGFzcy5tcDQ=[/video_player] Here is the Q and A portion of […]

17 What The Bleep Do We Know?

I am on a retreat. If you have ever heard of the documentary “What The Bleep Do We Know?” which asked the question: “What is our purpose? Where do we come from? What is reality?” then you know that it featured a neuroscientist Dr. Joe Dispensa, and I am at a weekend workshop that he […]

0 Ever feel Overwhelmed and Don’t know where to Begin?

Sometimes there is so much going on that we don’t know where to start. This happens for the Organizationally Gifted and the Organizationally Challenge alike. Life has never been as full as it is today. Now add something extra to the mix, planning a vacation, coming home from a vacation, The Holidays, moving, having a […]

0 Throw-back Throw it Out Thursday in The Kitchen

This is a Throw it out Thursday from 2013! I loved watching it, for the nostalgia (the cat in the background, the old house I lived in, even the kitchen curtains that I hated made me happy to see again.) Since Thursday’s are also known as “Throw Back Thursday” This fits the bill, and the […]

0 My underwear drawer

There is a new app called Periscope, it is live streaming video, we can actually BE together and I do real life stuff in my apartment and when I’m out or at my families house if there is a topic that will work for Tidy Tutor, I do a periscope on it. The videos are […]

0 How did he do it?

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0 3 Things to Change Today to begin Your New Year Resolution.

In this blog are 3 things you can do right now to start on your New Year Resolution to get organized. It is already the second week of the month, the first month of the year is 1/2 over already and if you haven’t begun yet, I want to give you a boost. You ready? […]

0 Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year My Tidy Family! This year, there is going to be a lot of changes in our Tidy Tutor World and program! Tidy Tutor University is going to be a 6 month course, broken up into small bites, with weekly Q & A sessions. Everyone will feel able to find the time to get […]

9 On Starting a New Life

I have begun a blog a while back about my journey. I sold my 4 bedroom home, moved an hour away from my family, doing what I’ve always wanted to do and being afraid in the process. I didn’t continue with the blog because I thought to myself, “Who really cares?” I was even afraid […]

0 Tidy Tutor Theme Song – by John Rizzo

Song by John Rizzo – These Are The things We Do (The Tidy Tutor Theme Song)

0 Homemaking Help for the Holidays

I have an amazing offer for you this month. When you click on the link, for only $7 you will have amazing help for Christmas. I have templates and downloads for you to keep track of Christmas gifts, a plan for the holiday, a plan for your holiday menu and for eating, even if you […]

0 Cyber Monday Sale!

I had a Cyber Monday sale for TTU but didn’t get it out till late because I didn’t realize it was Monday. I thought it was Sunday still. I’m all messed up with dates and times because I traveled back in time (sort of) having just left Vietnam on Saturday. So I am extending the […]

0 Living the life of your dreams

You know what I do right? I help people get organized. But really what I do is? I help people realize their dreams in life. What I do is so much more than helping people get organized. If you are here on this page, I know it is what you are looking for, you want […]

0 Would becoming a minimalist make your dreams come true?

I have been doing a blog series about authentic living, or another way of putting it, living authentically, and here is one of them. As you know (or maybe you don’t) I was a slob, read a book “Sidetracked Home Executives,” got organized and now I help others do what I did and live an […]

0 Tomorrow is so hopeful and depressing at the same time.

[two_column_block style=”1″] [content1] Tomorrow is always so hopeful and can be so depressing at the same time. When we think about what we have to do, so often we say to ourselves… “OK! Tomorrow I will get things started and I’ll do what I need to do Tomorrow!” It feels so full of hope and […]

0 Is my course TTU all free Videos on Youtube?

Most people think that they get all the good stuff from me for free on Youtube, so why should they get my course? I understand why people may think that is true. I have purchased a course and then found that every video that was sent to me in the course was already on Youtube. […]

0 Consequences of Disorder

Have you ever pulled an all-nighter because you put something importat off? Can’t you remember how that felt? The panic, the exhaustion the dread! Ugh! Us OCP (Orgaizationally Challenged People) have a warped perception of time we think everythign takes too long. We don’t know what to do or when to do it, so it […]

0 Time Management Techniques and Housework

The purpose of this post is to showcase Tidy Tutor University. I am havig a half price sale right now until the 28th, and you can begin right now by clicking this link. https://blog.thetidytutor.com/secure/signup/ttu-lifetime In this video I am sharing a portion of my course Tidy Tutor University. In this section of ttu we go over […]

0 What is wrong with me?

I’m on the beach getting this message out to you. I’ve got a houseful and my 4 DAY SALE is happening TONIGHT at midnight, so… I had to be creative and figure out how to get this email to you NOW. This was a great solution, and fun too! In this video I share a […]

0 What if it is Grandma’s Piano!?

Some of the hardest things we have to address is when something we really don’t want or like, belonged to a loved one. We feel that it is wrong to get rid of it, even though we don’t want it. If we have somethig that is perfectly good and valuable but it doesn’t suit us […]

0 How’s Your Summer?

How is your summer going? Have you been taking time to enjoy it? When you did take the time, was it difficult not to feel guilty because of the mess you left at home? Or did you sacrifice your summer to get the house together? …and how did that go? I’ve been where you are. […]

0 Strategies to declutter your home

If you are here on my website l than I know what you are looking for! You are trying to find a way to get out of a mess. You are disorganized, you don’t like it, and you want to change. Well, I am going to help you, and here is what I am going to […]

0 Throw it out Thursday at My House

One of the things I teach in Tidy Tutor University is that we have too much stuff, so I devised a Throw it out Thursday plan to help us declutter. We throw away 21 things every Thursday just for fun and I send out emails like this one to help you to see that getting […]

2 It was scary…

I’ve been doing a video series on my experience of moving from my four-bedroom home to a one-bedroom apartment. Downsizing and also just the experience of being alone for the first time in my whole fifty four years of living. The topic today is the emotional side of it. It was really, really difficult. It […]

2 Throw it Out Thursday at Christines

I had a sleepover with my 2 girlfriends Christine and Doris. We met 8 years ago at a self help meeting of sorts, and have been friends ever since. We got together at Christine’s house last weekend, and I took the opportunity to do a Throw it out Thursday video. Christine is Organizationally Gifted, but […]

8 “I Am a Mom!” Proclamation

I recently saw a post on my Facebook Newsfeed. It was an image that read: “I am a mom, My house is always loud and messy.  And that’s ok, because one day it will be quiet, spotless and lonely.” While it certainly is not my style to diss anyone for their creativity or opinion, it is my style to speak up about […]

7 My Apartment Tour

This is the video I promised. I am giving a tour of my apartment. There are many things I wanted to talk about in detail when doing this video, but I realized that it would be best for me to first just give a tour and then do little videos about all that other stuff in the weeks to […]

3 Let’s Get Personal

I am beginning a blog about the life changes that I have experienced in this past year. They are quite relevant to The Tidy Tutor’s battle cry. I sold my 4 bedroom home that had a front porch, a foyer, 3 bathrooms, an attic, a finished basement, and a HUGE 2 story barn in the […]

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13 Living a Perpetual Episode of “Twilight Zone”

I just read an article titled: “Our Mom was a Hoarder.” by Jennifer O’Neill, inside of Yahoo Parenting.The article’s main purpose was to help others “who remain silent in their shame about hoarding or living with a hoarder…”It was written by two siblings who grew up in a home that was overrun with clutter and […]

0 FREE Webinar tonight!

Tonight I am having a FREE webinar at 7pm EST to help you make a plan to get out of the mess to enjoy the nice weather to come! The image below was what happened here, at my apartment last night. I had begun to cover my refrigerator with contact paper because it was dented […]

2 It’s about happy…

I just wanted to remind you that, “It’s not about being perfect, it’s about being happy.” So often we DON’T do anything because it looks like we won’t be able to do it right… Who’s to say what is right? We can define our own RIGHT. Starting somewhere will get you closer to the finish […]

0 Time for you! Time for People! We Need it!

When I got divorced I had no money.  So, to make ends meet, I cleaned a couple of houses, and got a job as a crossing guard for school kids twice a day to help out with family finances. The crossing guard schtick was kind of fun at first and it paid $50 a day […]

0 Rom by Room Webinar

This is a systematic way to get through the house, one room at a time. I tried my best to give all the information I could in one meeting, and I am really happy with it.    If you feel like you need more help… I am offering my course for 30 days free, check […]

0 Welcome To TTU

This was a live webinar I had for new students who enrolled in Tidy Tutor University.  If you are in a mess and want to get out of it, listen to this webinar and see if TTU is for you.  Then click on the link and come on in! Www.TheTidyTutor.Com/TTU If you want to enroll […]

0 Essential Getting Started with TTU

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0 Gorgeous Chaos?

This is a blog that I did last Year in January, I thought it was a great one to share today for Motivation Monday. Let me know what you think. Today we’re going to talk about something called “Relative Deprivation”. Relative Deprivation was a concept coined by a sociologist (Samuel Stouffer) during WWII who discovered […]

3 Linen Closets & Linen Storage, Do we need them?

Do we really need linen closets? I’m telling you… we don’t, and I will tell you why, because we don’t need extra linens anymore that have to be stored and I’ll tell you why. There was a day when we had to beat our clothes on a rock at the river, so getting laundry done […]

2 Step by Step Help and instruction

I created a Facebook Group called “ROOM BY ROOM” CLICK HERE TO JOIN MY ROOM BY ROOM FACE BOOK GROUP! I did it because I know that people need help cleaning up a room that is a mess, especially if your entire house is a wreck. Doing it one room at a time with help […]

1 Feeling Overwhelmed? – Cleaning House Tips

We often have lots of down time on New Years, and it is so close to the weekend that I thought, let’s use it wisely! This is what I do when I am really overwhelmed and I feel like a deer in headlights. I thought I would share this video with you from when I […]

2 Holiday Menu ideas

When there is a special occasion on your horizon and all the holiday party ideas look like so much work, sometimes it can cause us lots of stress and grief. I want you to just relax, because I’m going to show you a plan to avoid the work so that you can enjoy the day along […]

5 The Night Before Thanksgiving Poem

I know this doesn’t pertain to everyone who follows me, some of you are not in The States and don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but still this will benefit you too. I wrote this poem on Thanksgiving Eve 2012. A lot has changed since then in my world… This is my own rendition of The night before […]

0 Is it ever too late?

My son Georgie came over today and shared a music video with me. He said, after watching it he wished that he could play the violin. I told him that my father died at 85 and he always wanted to play the piano. My father actually did play the piano and beautifully, but not the […]

0 Head Start to the Holidays!

The holidays are going to be here before you know it, and along with all the joy that this time of year brings it also brings stress, and headaches and pressure and lots of work. If you are in a mess when the holiday season comes around it can suck the joy right out of […]

1 Head Start to the Holidays

We are going to get a Head Start to the Holidays! Now if you don’t know what this is all about, it is an on-line course; October, November, and December to get ready for the holiday season and the upcoming year! We get started RIGHT NOW with a bonus September video FREE! Your first step […]

1 How to Get Organized Free Book!

I am gifting to you my book, Finally Organized.When you click on the video below you will hear me reading chapter 8, “Love Yourself.”  I hope you like it.  It is kinda free, It won’t cost you any money… All that I ask is that you tell other people where they can get a copy free […]

0 Get Organized, Personal Power, Tony Robbins

Will things ever change?  Just over 8 years ago when I was still married I was helping my sister organize her attic.While going through some boxes I came across a set of Tapes. The tape series were titled Personal Power, and they were by Tony Robbins. (Totally changed my life) I asked Tina if I could […]

0 Help for the baby boomer women, snow blowing

Freaking snow… Happy Fagetaboudet Friday! OH… And Happy Valentines Day too. This video has nothing to do with Valentines day, but it is apropos, I think. Ultimately it is about roles of men and women in relationship to jobs that need to be done… and how things change when we are alone in many respects. […]

0 Let’s do it! Lets FINALLY GET ORGANIZED!

Below I have copied what was written by one of my students WHO I ADORE! (I adore all of all of my students, just ask any one them) In any case, this is what Christina wrote regarding Tidy Tutor University. I would like to say that when she mentions the nominal enrollment fee it was […]

0 New Years Resolutions – Getting Organized

I was recently reading blogs by The Minimalists, Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus. And from what I could see they have discovered that having it all, is not what it is cracked up to be. In a nutshell, at the ripe old age of (almost) 30 they had achieved their financial and career goals […]

8 Just for fun, laugh, be happy while we get organized

Please read this email before you watch this 17 second video. (The video may make you laugh- hard, I hope it does, or it may make you unsubscribe, I hope it doesn’t, I think it is important, so here it is 🙂 I was looking for a video that I have done to encourage one […]

4 declutter, purses, wallets, time management

There are so many things that we need to organize, using little blocks of time to declutter our purses and wallets is the ticket to always having a tidy and organized purse and wallet. With a little planning we can use small pockets of time to get this job done. Things become a mess for […]

1 Fagetaboutet Friday!

OK, Ya Ready? You woke up and the house is a wreck, you want to do something but you don’t know where to start. I’m helping you. Maybe you are still in your jammies and still looking a little funky. The first thing you do is take a shower. Get dressed and groomed. I have […]

0 Taking a break? It’s not time yet! Just do it!

“I’ve been taking a break from everything for so many years because I felt I deserved it. But in looking around this place, I know I deserve better. And I’m the only one who can give it precedence. So enough with thoughts. The vision is clear. Just do it. I grew up in the 80s and I remember very much the […]

1 Motivating Kids To Do What They Gotta

This video and blog was done in September when most kids go back to school, but it could be applicable for any time of year. If you are an Organizationally Gifted parent, having an Organizationally Challenged Child can be super frustrating because you just don’t get them. Why don’t they do what you tell them? […]

5 Sometimes creating a Plan B isn’t the answer, sometimes it is…

I know the time of year is Christmas, and this video was done in August, but sometimes a message needs to be repeated. Are you dealing with a difficult existence with another person or people in your life? Sometimes we need to be happy anyway and make a plan B, sometimes we can’t do that, […]

3 Motivation Monday: Spring Cleaning

With this method, your house will get the attention it needs on a regular basis, instead of a ridiculous burnout cleaning session once a year, that doesn’t happen anyway and only leaves us disappointed, and sometimes in more of a mess! What is it about spring that makes every woman in the world think that […]