Do you have a pile of old cell phones, batteries or chargers cluttering up your home or office? If you want to be better organized, get rid of those old electronics and recycle them! I just found out that Peapod the company I use to deliver my groceries will actually pick up my old cell phone, chargers and batteries and recycle them. I love this added service! Not only do I save time and money shopping online I get to give them items to recycle. Can't beat that!

It starts out as a cluttered closet, a overstuffed drawer or a garage used as a storage space. One day you decide its time to get organized. If you decide to get rid of the things you no longer need but put aside the "maybe's", how much time are you willing to spend holding to these things? A day, week, month, years or until have you completely forgotten about them? If you decided to store those items be sure to give yourself a time frame for letting go. Add a label to the box that says "get rid of by xx date." If you havent needed it since you moved it or even thought about it, it's a good sign you made the right decision to let it go.

Planning on organizing the garage this weekend? What are you supposed to do with your old ten speed and all those random broken bike parts? Donate them to Working Bikes Cooperative! Its an organization that takes old bikes, repairs them an gives them to charity in the Chicagoland area and internationally. They will take used bikes, broken parts and rusted bikes. Your old bike that hasnt been used in years could help someone get and keep a job by having transportation. Check out Working Bikes Cooperative for events or for their local partners

My sister was doing a great job organizing her super fabulous closets. She pulled out her prized cashmere sweater collection and put into bags. She continued to switch over to her winter wardrobe. As she went through her closet she began to also purge items she did not want and put those items into bags. Soon she would make a trip to the Salvation Army for donation. I got a call from her later saying "I dropped off my entire cashmere sweater collection the the Salvation Army"!
It is no fun when this happens. Thats why you have to keep track of what you are keeping and what is trash or donation. I recommend 2 colors of bags when you are organizing. White trash bags for donation and black trash bags for garbage. If you need to label the white bags with a sharpie its a cinch! Write donation, friends, family whatever label you need. Just be sure to label bags when you cant see whats inside!

Need to get organized by getting rid of old computers and electronics? This weekend make organizing, donating and recycling your electronics a priority! On May 22nd MacSpecialist is hosting “Reboot” from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at at 234 West Roosevelt Road in the Villa Oaks Shopping Center in Villa Park, Illinois. There is no charge to recycle your items.

Are you struggling to get one more can of veggies, bags of trail mix or other non perishable foods into your pantry? Make it easier on yourself and help others by organizing your pantry and getting rid of items you know you are not going to eat. Then donate those items by putting them in your mail box on May 8th! Letter carriers will be collecting non perishable food donations for Feeding America and other relief groups.

Are you constantly getting new video game counsels and just cant keep everything organized? And what are you supposed to do with all those video games that nobody plays with anymore? Here's a home organizers tip. Donate them to Donate Games. They accept all kinds of old games and then resell them. The money made from the purchases goes to medical research.
If you want to cut down on video games even more, try renting at Gamefly.com. For $22.95 a month you can rent 2 at a time.