by Kate Fehr
“pliio™ is to your drawers what hangers are to your closet!” – Clare Kumar
How many times do you go to your dresser drawers to find a tank top, shirt or sweater; dig through the piles; and end up having to straighten everything back up or leave it for later because you are in a hurry? It happens to me more times than I’d like to admit and I’ve often longed for a better solution. “Why hasn’t someone created something like hangers for drawers?!?!” At the NAPO conference in 2013 I first heard of pliio™ and thought “Oh my gosh, someone HAS created something and it’s brilliant!”
What is pliio™?
pliio™ is a clothing management system that is designed to make folding, storing and finding your items easy, fun and organized. They are individual filing tools that you fold your clothes onto and then file them into a drawer, pliio storage box, closet shelf or suitcase. As you pull out individual items the rest stay neatly lined up and standing! Currently pliio™ comes in just one size, but coming soon are the smaller filers as well as large pilers.
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by Kate Fehr
No more notifications please!!
Every time I think of checking my email or social media I cringe. Why? Because things come in so quickly that I’m inundated by those numbered notifications. You get it! It’s like laundry…never ending! Plus, I waste so much time “just checking it really quickly.”
Okay, enough of the problem. Here is my outline of solutions.
First, accessibility.
I deleted ALL of my social media apps (expect for Instagram) off of my phone. It’s like ice cream for me. If I can get to it, I’ll eat it. (more…)
by Kate Fehr
You’ve got all the pieces, now let’s put the puzzle together!
Are you starting to feel like you’re getting this R.A.F.T© thing?! We are going to walk through the process in its entirety again to help with that. As I mentioned in “Contain the Piles,” the very first thing you do is gather all of your incoming paper each day and put it in a vertical holding container.
From there, schedule some time in your week that you can R.A.F.T© through it…
- R = Read. All items that are leisurely reading go into one container…or two containers, but they are specifically for Reading.
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by Kate Fehr
Get it outta your life!
The final step of R.A.F.T.© is TOSS. It is a simple step, but offers a noticeable difference in your paper load. Once a week, as you process papers from your incoming container, simply toss papers into a recycle container or send through a shredder. Pay attention to what happens as you go through this process.
Common results are…
- Feeling accomplished clearing out all of that weight.
- You and your space feeling lighter.
- It sets a standard in your space that for all the incoming there has to be outgoing as well.
Send it off before it takes up residence!
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by Kate Fehr
Are you ready to love your filing cabinet and the papers inside?!
Okay, maybe that is a little extreme, but the reality is that you CAN have a filing system in place that will change your relationship with paper. You CAN enjoy handling, filing and retrieving papers. Thanks to the magnificent Seth Odam and his brilliant creation FreedomFiler. FreedomFiler is the only all-encompassing, self-purging filing system. Do you need even more reason than that?!
Okay…
- It contains everything from your daily action file labels, to your monthly files, your taxes, your vital records, your contracts and your reference information.
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