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Rhonda & I started Heart of the Matter Professional Organizing in June 2004.  This week, and again next week, I’m going to share some of our all time favourite tips.   Our team uses these strategies in our own homes and have implemented them in the homes of 100’s of clients over the years. Put them […]

Teachers (classroom & home schooling) now is the time to be thinking about setting great habits for the 2017/18 school year.  Once your students arrive on the first day of school things take off at high speed and it can be difficult to keep up and stay organized in your classroom.   Did you know

Did you know that Heart of the Matter specializes in “Teacher Organization”? Did you know that we have the privilege to work for the Waterloo Region District School Board in relation to “Health and Wellness”?  Check-out our website to see the services we provide for teachers. As an Ontario College of Teachers graduate, I (Rhonda)

Rhonda and I have had an organizing plan of action that we have used ever since we started Heart of the Matter back in 2004.  We call it the HEART Process of Organizing. H = Handle & Sort E = Evaluate A = Assign a Home R = Restore Order T = Tune-up Some of

  I quite enjoyed my status as Mother of the Bride.  When we went to Ben’s home town of Smiths Falls for family shower festivities, Murray and I were presented with our status pins. I was proud to wear mine on the day of the shower and again the next day for family brunch.  An

Some of you who know me personally, or have crossed paths with me over the past 9 months, know that I have been in wedding mode.  Our beautiful daughter Hayley accepted the marriage proposal of her fiancee Ben back on Labour Day weekend 2016. A candid shot taken that evening after the proposal in Victoria

When it comes to finding new homes for stuff people no longer want, use, or need, here’s what we’ve learned over the years…… 1. What you think is worth money, may not be – sometimes what we call antique furniture is just used furniture. 2. When someone tells you an item is worth a lot

Once you have made the difficult emotional decision to rightsize to the appropriate home for your stage of life, then the physical work begins! It can feel overwhelming!  Where do you start?  How do you begin? Start on spare bedrooms, basement, closets, attic, garage and sheds months in advance of the move.   Tell everyone

Do you have 12 or more cups and saucers, but only use mugs?   Do you have records and tapes that no one has listened to in years?    Do you have old wedding announcements and greeting cards squirreled away from acquaintances you can scarcely remember?   Does your medicine chest hold bottles of ancient

Over the next several weeks we are sharing tips and words of encouragement around the process of rightsizing.  This can be a very emotional stage of life.   Leaving a home where you have lived for many years is very difficult.  Warm memories and positive life experiences are no doubt part of the years spent in