Welcome to the Let Patty Do It News and Tips Newsletter issue number 6.
Summer is gone and the holidays are on their way.

In this issue:

=>The Holidays are coming
=>Just for fun

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The Holidays are coming!

You know what that means - the sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach and the thought “I’ve got to get organized!” Whether the disdain you feel from your relatives and friends is real or imagined, now it the time to think about getting control.

Is your usual strategy to throw everything in a bag or box and put it in the basement? Sometimes when we have waited too long, that’s the only solution because company is only 30 minutes away. If this is what you do, remember to use clear containers and place a piece of paper on the inside that says “Papers from dining room table 10/05 or Things to be ironed 10/05.

If you can’t see what’s in that bag or box, you are setting yourself up for more work!

If the bags and boxes are still down there from last year-throw them away!!! If you haven’t needed them for the whole year, there’s nothing important in them. If you just have to look, do a quick sift through, just in case you’re still looking for you wedding ring or those diamond earrings that disappeared. You’ll rile up the spiders- ugh- and then out it all goes.

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Is last year’s resolution still unattained? Start now. It doesn’t have to take all day to clear off the dining room table the right way.

Here are the steps:

1. Start by putting everything in a box. Aha! That’s what the table looks like!
2. Put the box on the floor or on a large table.
3. Quickly (quickly is the key) the coupon books, catalogs and junk mail that we get so much of is OUT OF HERE! Don’t look through it just pitch it! You’ll get more next month.
4. Then, use First principle of organizing-put like things together. Receipts, together, school papers, bills, correspondence-do you get letters anymore? All of these things get their own separate pile.
5. The sock, glove, sewing scissors etc go into to a container that holds things that go to other rooms. Don’t take them now-you’ll get sidetracked.
6. When your have your piles of stuff, then sit down with one pile at a time and think FAT-File, Act, Toss.
7. Start that school binder-one per child. Make a file for receipts.

When you’ve gotten through all the piles and acted upon them pat yourself on the back-you are taking back Control!

COMING NEXT TIME: How to keep it going?

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Just for fun.

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." - Henry Kaiser

"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.  - Mark Twain

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Less is better!