To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Rachel Levy Konik, The Rosen Group, +1-212-255-8455 x 235, RachelK@rosengrouppr.com, for Consumers Union; or Lauren Hackett of Consumer Reports, +1-914-378-2561, LHackett@consumer.org ShopSmart Magazines Easy Path to Organization YONKERS, N.Y., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Is your home filled with storage containers yet your drawers and closets...
3 Ways To Control Your Office ClutterSet up a general reference filing systemThe Lifehacker article was a great read.One of the key to containing clutter is defining what it is in the context of your work. Most people pile paperwork on their desk to remind themselves that action is required...
I tend to be most productive and efficient when my workspace is neat and organized. Despite knowing this, my home office still tends to slide toward a natural state of barely controlled chaos. My piles of paper beget other piles, my sticky notes threaten to obscure my computer screen, and...
How to Clear the Clutter from Your Inboxemail clutterIn addition to the spam filter on my server, I've added a spam filter called SPAMBATES (C:Program FilesSpamBayesdocsoutlookabout.html) to Outlook. Spambayes is teachable - it learns what I consider spam by what I direct to which of 3 groups: Inbox, Junk suspects,...
The definition of clutter has been intensely fought at home and at the office. Your co-worker's neat might be your obsessive compulsive and your husband's lived-in might feel more like war-torn to you. But today MIT announced that scientists are stepping into the debate with a tool to measure clutter....
Denby Dale and District Lions Club are hoping to encourage people hand over their household clutter. People are being urged to empty their attics, garages and cellars to provide lots for the club's bi-annual Charity Attic Auction - and to make your clear-out really simple members of the Lions...
SPRING IS ALMOST here, and thoughts turn to cleaning, clearing, starting fresh. But if your thoughts are stuck in a guest room or garage doubling as an online auction warehouse, Claire Tompkins has good news: You are not a bad person. "People feel if they had more time or they...
7 Lachlan Murdoch Gen-X mogul gets thicker portfolio at News Corp. No. 3 exec and son of Rupert gets oversight of 33 local U.S. TV stations to go with publishing operations. Is Rupert a step closer to abdication? 5 Speed Channel Audi provides publicity boon...
Some call it space clearing, others decluttering. This alarming process might be to make room for a host of IKEA delectables, but I fear there are deeper forces at work. Jane Alexander, an author specialising in such matters, warns me: "Clutter is bad for your health as it attracts dust...
When Mike Love joined Microsoft as senior director of communication in 2004, a key task was to help streamline internal and external communication and cut through the clutter of information produced by this large, global organization. Here he shares some When Mike Love joined Microsoft as senior director of communication...
The headline, in Newsweek, read ``Shock Treatment.'' What followed was a story about advertisers so desperate to break through the clutter that they assault the viewer with extremely provocative, incendiary or lewd images. And it's true. Many a jerk with a small media...
Call it million-dollar clutter. One of the more amazing statistics of ABC-TV's hit ``Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' is the seeming audience indifference to a blizzard of commercials. In the final episode, during one 10-minute period, there was only 2 minutes of...
M2 PRESSWIRE-2 October 1998-U.S. HHS: Focusing attention cancels brain-dampening effects of visual clutter C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:011098 We simply can't become conscious of and remember everything that we see. Multiple representations of objects in our visual field are constantly...
David Lai is the award winning CEO and Creative Director behind Hello Design, an interactive design agency that is helping brands effectively reach their customers by pushing the envelope of traditional design. David talks about the power of design to break through the clutter.
We all find that 'time' seems to run our lives. We eventually run out of time to relax, enjoy our families and 'smell the roses' so to speak. This can be causing physical and mental harm to our bodies as well as mental anguish. How do we manage to get...
Byline: By EMMA DAVISON News Reporter WITH a quarter of us having bought electrical items as gifts this Christmas many old items will be gathering dust and cluttering up our homes. New research by Recycle Now reveals that, on average, we have three old, broken or...
The news for newspapers hasn't been good lately. Circulation has been in decline for years, partly because the people who grew up using newspapers as their primary news source are in decline as well, and the Internet beguiles young readers. Recent bad news includes the bankruptcy of the Tribune Co.,...
Christmas is over, New Year approaches, time to start planning those household chores and gardens. Here is this week's Home & Garden television schedule. SATURDAY, Dec. 27 Midnight HGTV Designed to Sell -- A couple get their home ready to sell....
THE NEWS for newspapers hasn't been good lately. Circulation has been in decline for years, partly because the people who grew up using newspapers as their primary news source are in decline as well, and the Internet beguiles young readers. Recent bad news includes the bankruptcy of the Tribune Co.,...
Smead Organomics Offers Tips for January GO Get Organized Month to Make 2009 Clutter Free HASTINGS, Minn. -- While getting organized is one of the top five New Year's resolutions, most people's goals fall flat because they don't have the right tools or advice to help them develop...
