Category: Housekeeping

Establishing Routines: Transition from Summer Life to Fall

8/5/2025

There’s something magical about vacation mode—that blissful escape from the usual rush. Whether it’s a sun-soaked summer break or a breezy long-weekend retreat, taking time away lets you hit pause, breathe deeper, and take life at a slower pace than your everyday life allows.

However, when vacation mode ends, we all have a hard time jumping back into the swing of the daily routine.

When the vacation ends, do you have a hard time jumping back into the swing of the daily routine? Is your home still disorganized with stuff you brought home from your trip and haven’t put away? Is the family having trouble getting out the door in time? You’re not alone!

Let’s rebuild the rhythm of your day — one simple habit at a time — to bring calm and simplicity to your everyday life.

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Top Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Car

5/6/2025

Believe it or not, I’ve helped clients organize their cars. Yup, cars pile up with excess stuff just like our homes. In fact, it’s pretty easy to clutter up a car because it’s a small space and you’re always busy when you’re in it, so you don’t typically take the time to tidy up.

Now, after getting you safely through the slushy, muddy late-winter weather, doesn’t your car deserve some TLC? It’s time to give it a good spring cleaning!

I’ll show you how to organize your car using my same CALM method that I use for your home. CALM = Clear, Assess, Locate, Maintain & Modify

Solve the Problem of Laundry OVERLOAD

5/7/2024

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Organize Laundry Overload Professional Organizer Providence

Is your laundry a seemingly-insurmountable pile? Does it feel never-ending? You do the laundry and there’s another pile forming before you’ve even put away the last load!

You can do this! Here are my Top 5 Pro Organizer Tips for making laundry manageable.

1. DAILY LAUNDRY
Just like you do dishes every day (You do, right?), do a load of laundry every day. You’ll stay on top of it and the piles won’t even have time to form.

Don’t have enough laundry to do it daily? Use your hamper as a guide and do a load as soon as the hamper is close to full, not overflowing.

2. COMPLETE LAUNDRY
Get it into your head that “doing laundry” equals doing the WHOLE thing: washing, drying, folding, and putting away. This avoids masses of clothes sitting around, causing more work for you because they’re so wrinkled.

PRO TIP: Do you habitually forget to move the laundry to the next stage (washer to dryer, or dryer to folding)? Set a phone reminder. “Hey Siri, in one hour remind me to put the laundry in the dryer.”

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Fall Clearing

9/21/2021

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Stay organized this fall with a home organizer near me

It happens predictably every year in the early fall. Is it triggered by the kids going back to school? Or when I notice the sun setting earlier and the air getting cooler?

Whatever the cause, I feel compelled to pare down the excess and spruce up the house, creating a more streamlined, restful space to live in.

“We don’t need this many mugs,” I announce to my husband as I peer critically into the kitchen cupboard, pulling out one with a chip and throwing it into the trash.

That evening, after I toss an extra deck of cards into the donation bag that I keep by the door and tell him that I’d like to repaint the living room, I see a look in his eyes like he’s just figured something out. “Oh,” he observes, “you’re nesting again.”

“Yup!” I laugh, “I do it every fall.” Organizing isn’t just something you do once and it stays that way forever. Things pile up, new things come into the house, and life changes. It’s rituals and routines like this fall clearing that keep me organized.

Clear the space so you can enjoy your place.

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Bag Check: What’s in a Professional Organizer’s Toolkit?

4/13/2021

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Professional Organizer Kate Bosch posing with her work bag

“Did you just pull a broom out of your bag?” my wide-eyed client asked last week as I did a quick sweep under a rug she was discarding.

OK, it’s not a full-size broom, but I do have a mini-dust broom in my bag. No, it’s not a magic bag, even though more than one client has called it my Mary Poppins bag. But it is full of tricks and tools. I like to come to an organizing session prepared to handle any situation you throw at me.

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4 Strategies to Help You Pare Down

1/13/2021

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Eliminating excess will help you maintain organization with ease, says Kate Bosch Professional Organizer

One question I always ask a new client is, “Do you think your space has the problem of too much stuff or is it just that things are not properly organized?”

I admit that this is a bit of a trick question because nearly always the answer is “both.” Having too much stuff will always stand between you and organization as you struggle to maneuver around the excess.

Sure, you can file-fold your entire t-shirt collection and just barely manage to cram it all into your dresser drawer, but those shirts will be so jammed together that you’ll struggle to pull one out without others coming with it. Not to mention that your t-shirts will have permanent wrinkles from being so tightly packed. And I’d like to see you maintain your composure while trying to put it back into the drawer!

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Organizing Electronics Accessories: Eliminate Cable Confusion

5/21/2019

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Eliminate cable confusion with a professional organizer

With the ever-changing, constantly-updating world of personal electronics, one situation my clients frequently face is cable confusion: drawers and bins full of cables and only a vague idea which devices they match and which cables are still needed. To further complicate matters, often the devices are stored elsewhere and cables are stashed in various places around the house (and cars).

Do you have a nest of unknown charging cables hiding somewhere in your house? Let’s round them up and create a better system!

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Get Your Laundry Organized

4/25/2018

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Basket of laundry, professional declutter

I know lots of organized people who have various strategies for keeping up with laundry, but the one thing they all have in common is that they don’t let it sit around. Once the dryer cycle is done, they fold it and put it away all in a single session.

You know how work swells to fit the time you give it but if you give yourself a deadline you manage to get it done faster? It’s the same with laundry. Give yourself a deadline (try using a timer or stopwatch) and plan your time so that you’ll be able to put it all away in the same day that it comes out of the dryer. Otherwise, you’ll wind up with piles of laundry sitting around your folding area for days!

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1-2-3 Cleanup

2/17/2018

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This month, I'm partnering with the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Research Foundation's Knowledge is Power campaign to help people get organized and reduce stress.

The short month of February is more than half over, but there’s still time to clear the clutter and get more organized.

According to an article in Psychology Today, “Messy homes and work spaces leave us feeling anxious, helpless, and overwhelmed.” So true!

But where do you start? This quick 1-2-3 will make your space more serene.

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Follow Through with Quick Pre-Holiday Cleanups

11/21/2017

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Are you hosting Thanksgiving and planning to do a quick cleanup of the main areas of your house before guests arrive? Hosting is a great motivator to sweep through your house, gathering everything that’s out of place (Hello, kids’ toys and husband’s shoes!) and returning them to their rightful homes.

What if there’s kind of a lot of stuff out of place and you don’t have time to put it all away before Thanksgiving? Do you use the “throw it all into a hamper and hide it in a closet” method?

That’s not a terrible method as long as you remember to include putting everything away in your post-Thanksgiving clean up. A messy pile loves company (chaos begets chaos) so the longer you leave things in that basket, the more likely other things are to pile up around the house and in the basket.

After you’ve finished the Thanksgiving dishes, grab that basket and get to it!

You might find you need to assign new homes to some of the things so they’re easier to put away in the future. You might also find that the new home is in someone else’s house, in which case you can put those things right into your car and drive them over to the donation center the next time you’re out!

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Organizing Tips
to motivate and inspire you!

Establishing Routines: Transition from Summer Life to Fall

Top Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Car

Solve the Problem of Laundry OVERLOAD

Fall Clearing

Bag Check: What’s in a Professional Organizer’s Toolkit?

4 Strategies to Help You Pare Down

Organizing Electronics Accessories: Eliminate Cable Confusion

Get Your Laundry Organized

1-2-3 Cleanup

Follow Through with Quick Pre-Holiday Cleanups

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