Send us your nomination for the Clutter Control Freak of the Week with photos or videos and readers will pick the winner, who will get a cool prize.

1 Strategy to Manage Your ADD

By Jennifer Koretsky

The one ADD management strategy that is guaranteed to make your ADD more manageable is…[drum roll, please]…self-care! Yes, it works for everyone. And small steps lead to really big improvements in this arena.

When I say "self-care," I'm talking about the three basic things that every person (ADD or not) needs to focus on in order to stay healthy and feel good: nutrition, exercise, and sleep.

Let's take a look at why each of these are so important for adults with ADD…
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Last Day to Enter to Win a New Bedroom!

By Eva Wallace

Contest Closed - check back tomorrow when we announce the winners!

One of our vendors, South Shore Furniture, has agreed to provide one lucky winner with this beautiful new bedroom set!

Here are all the prizes:

Grand Prize:
South Shore Furniture "Versa" Full/Queen Bedroom Collection with:
   • 1 headboard
   • 1 6-drawer dresser
   • 1 mirror
   • 2 nightstands
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It's Almost Contest time!

By Eva Wallace

Woohoo!

We have our best contest ever starting on Wednesday, November 19th.

The Grand Prize is this five piece bedroom set from South Shore Furniture!

Other prizes include a bath organizer and a cabinet organizer from Organize It All, a luggage rack from Winsome, and a shoe rack from Polder.

Come back here on the 19th to enter!!

Stacks and Stacks Helps Canadian Village Go Green

By Eva Wallace

The tiny village of Whale Cove in Northern Canada is finally going to have a recycling program, thanks to the efforts of a young villager named Sarah Igviksaq and StacksandStacks.com. This new program would help Sarah's small community pay for their sports teams to travel through the territories and do their part to save our planet.

Here is the letter we received from Sarah:
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The Big O: Ask Monica!

By Eva Wallace

For all of our Monica Ricci fans, Vicky and Jen.com is hosting the podcast "The Big O: Ask Monica!"

In this special episode of the organizing series, listeners present Monica with their personal organizing challenges. They cover messy cars, toys, school papers, artwork and much more. They even have a surprise personal pop quiz for Monica to help us learn more about our favorite organizer!

Check it out!

Freak of the week Nomination: Shannon from Yellowfence Blog

By guest

I have the best FREAK of the WEEK! She is the most organized person I have ever met. I used to teach organizational classes for a living, and she makes me look messy. Very messy. Her closets in her house have EVERYTHING in labeled boxes. You could eat off the floor at all times. If I ask her what she is doing tonight, she checks her list and tells me.

She is my organizational hero!
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YOU Can Contribute Tips & Photos to Clutter Control Freak

We want you to contribute tips, before & after photos, videos, stories, and advice to Stacks and Stacks' Clutter Control Freak Blog. Other readers will get to vote on which contributions are the most useful. Here are some of the ways you can participate:

   • Freak of the Week
Send us your nomination for the Clutter Control Freak of the Week with photos or videos and readers will pick the winner, who will get a cool prize.

The Freak of the Week can be a person, a process, a before & after, or a how-to.

   • Clutter Hacks
Send us ideas, products, and tips on clearing clutter from your life. We especially love to hear about clutter hacks that take less than 10 minutes to do.
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Product Feature: Key Organizer

By Eva Wallace

Momfinds.com is featuring one of our Stacks and Stacks products on their site today!

Our Wall Mounted Key Rack with Color Coded Key Rings, on sale for $18.99, is a fantastic way to keep everyone's keys organized and easy to find.

3rd Annual LA Organizing Awards: Vote for Your Favorites!

By Eva Wallace

On February 1, 2008, the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO-LA) will present the Third Annual Los Angeles Organizing Awards at the Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard, Bel Air, California.

Comedian and actress, Sherri Shepherd of “The View” is hosting the Awards, which will honor the best in the organizing industry, from professional organizers and retailers to products and services.
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Extreme Makeover Home Edition

By Eva Wallace

Not to toot our own horn here (not too much anyway - lol), but on this Sunday’s episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Stacks and Stacks has convinced several of our vendors to donate items to a deserving Wyoming family. The episode will be airing on Sunday, November 4th. (check your local listings for airtimes) Tune in - it should be good! I’ll give you a quick review on Monday.

Freak of the Week Nomination: Charlene Anderson

By guest

I have to nominate myself as Freak of the Week. I just got in a shipment of 25 pounds of glass beads, mixed colors, sizes and styles. You can imagine how many beads are in 25 pounds. Well, I turned on the Tivo, got a lot of small boxes, and sorted every single one of those beads.

If that wasn't obsessive enough, I then washed, with a sieve, each of the boxes I had sorted. After I dried them, I put them in clear zip top bags and stored them in my library card file (I purchased them when our library went computerized) by color, and of course the drawers are labeled with a Brother P-touch labeler.

Yes, excessive; yes, over the top; yes, even a bit freaky; but I can find just what I want in seconds! Here's a photo that shows what I did with some of the beads.

Submitted by Charlene Anderson

Back to School Tip: Make Clothes Shopping Fun

If you have more than one child, plan to take each child school clothes shopping on a different afternoon or evening. You get one-on-one time with each child and the school clothes shopping is much more enjoyable for both of you.

Source: Maria Gracia's Get Organized Now August checklist