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Feeling Horrible- Organizing Your Medicine Chest - The Ultimate Organizing Guide - Day 14

By Ingrid Talpak on January 14, 2013 6:00 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

One of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th century was the discoveries made in medicine that brought relief to the world with easy, common prescriptions.

Every household has a medicine chest (or box, or cabinet) where they can easily turn to if they have a head ache, cough, stomach ache or itch.

It feels horrible to feel horrible and we want relief now! (And for the most part you don't care how much it costs). You want to make sure that what you are taking is what you need, the best option and the correct dose.

You need to check out the medicine chest.

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It Cost a Lot to Look This Good or Does It? Organizing Your Cosmetics- The Ultimate Organizing Guide- Day 13

By Ingrid Talpak on January 13, 2013 12:20 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Oddly enough, toothpaste is considered a cosmetic and not a medicine. I always thought this was strange because it is so vital to our good health to keep our teeth clean.

Soap is very important as well, along with shampoo, but what about conditioner, hair gel and hair spray?

There are women (and men) who will argue to the death that they are necessities and when times get tight it is the last things that they are willing to give up.

You can buy a bar of soap for about $1, and it will get you clean, or you can buy a bar of soap that can cost you $10 and it will smell heavenly, have nice suds and make your skin feel silky. Is it worth the cost to you?

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Organization and Money - Day 12

By Ingrid Talpak on January 12, 2013 12:58 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

If you have followed all the instructions and advice in this series so far you have done a LOT of work. As I stated before, I started with your socks because they are such a inconspicuous part of your life but in reality very important.

I wanted you to start writing out your daily expensese at the same time that you started working through your closet to bring to you the idea that there really are not any small expenditures, everything adds up.

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Taming The Demon - Organizing Your Closet - Day 11

By Ingrid Talpak on January 11, 2013 12:32 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Oh those fabulous custom closets with chandeliers, marquetry flooring, fine wood drawers that shut whisper quiet and a hidden safe for you to stash your diamonds and watches.... just what everyone needs, right?

Or would you be happy to just be able to see into your closet and find what you have so you can get out the door in the morning.

While custom made closets are a luxury they can be terribly expensive and not what you need. There might be better (and much cheaper) ways for you to have a perfectly organized closet.

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Do Your Clothes Make You Feel Rich? Fashion's Dirty Little Secret - The Ultimate Organizing Guide - Day 10

By Ingrid Talpak on January 10, 2013 12:40 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Do you look in despair at your closet and think that it is just full of rubbish?

Are you amazed about how much money you have sunk into it?

Is being fashion forward very low on you list of priorities and you just want to look neat, clean and tidy (with the exception of looking amazing for the times that you need to) or does your career need you to look polished at all times.

We all need to buy clothes and we want the best for our money but often we don't feel that we are getting what we paid for.

The price of clothes might have absolutely nothing to do with the quality of them.

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Treat You Closet Like a Business - What to Buy, Sell or Trade - The Ultimate Organizing Guide -Day 9

By Ingrid Talpak on January 9, 2013 12:35 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

You've been tracking your daily money for about a week now Start Organizing Your Money - Why Budgets Don't Work - Day 2 and you have probably started noticing some of your money leaks. Silly things that you are spending money on that really don't add that much to your life.

You've also done a complete inventory of all the clothes and accessories in your household. Was it a shock? Did you discover that you owned 10 pairs of gloves but not a single decent pair of shoes? Have you ever been aware of how much money you spend on your wardrobe?

As you also priced out the cost of your clothes do you realize that you might have spent $10 on take out coffee this week and that is exactly the money you need to buy something on your Need list?

You wrote down your Needs and Wants for you and your families wardrobe and that is going to give you a good basis on what you should be budgeting in for clothes next year. But using what you have already discarded from you closets you might get them sooner than you thought.

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How to Inventory Your Jewelry - The Ultimate Organizing Guide - Day 8

By Ingrid Talpak on January 8, 2013 12:01 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Jewelry can be some of the most sentimental items that you own and possible some of the most valuable as well.

Some women collect jewelry from the time they are toddlers and always think that more is better, no matter what the quality is. Others prefer to have a few very valuable select pieces.

For the majority of women, the reality is somewhere in between.

Photo by Sabrina Sikora

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Organizing Outer Wear and Accessories - The Ultimate Organizing Guide - Day 7

By Ingrid Talpak on January 7, 2013 12:18 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

It doesn't just take clothes to dress ourselves there is a whole universe of accessories that we can add to make each of our outfits look unique.

A plain black shirt and pants will look totally different if you pair it with a red shawl and red shoes than if you were to add a bold silver belt and patterned black & white scarf.

While accessories can make anything really pop they need to be readily accessible so you can see what you own and then wear it. The old saying out of sight our of mind really does apply.

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Organizing Your Closet - The Ultimate Organizing Guide - Day 6

By Ingrid Talpak on January 6, 2013 12:33 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

If you have read the last two organizing articles you should have your

socks and underwear in order the rest of your closet inventory and organization should be a breeze. Right?

What is it that you have in there? Does the idea of counting through your clothes scare you to death and fill you with dread or depress you because you know that there is nothing in there that either fits you or that you like.

It is quite possible that you have spent a LOT of money for what is in that little space. Let's crack it open and see what's going on.

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Organizing Your Underwear - The Ultimate Organizing Guide - Day 5

By Ingrid Talpak on January 5, 2013 12:14 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Talk about things that you need. Underwear, not a frivolous item but a necessity. You organized socks and now it is time to sort through your underwear.

As with your socks you are going to see how many you own and what needs to be replaced.(It will be easier than with socks, you need two to make a pair of socks and underwear comes singly.)

If you are a man then you have to just count through your boxers and briefs, but if you are a woman...we are looking at panties, bras, slips and shapewear.

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How to Organize Your Socks - The Ultimate Organizing Guide - Day 4

By Ingrid Talpak on January 4, 2013 12:00 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

How can such a small thing as socks cause such a mess. We all have them, we all need them and it would be nice to keep them organized.

If you read ;Are Your Socks Making You Poor - Day 3 you probably have spent a lot of time going through the socks in your home and now it's time to put them all in order.

How and where have you been keeping your socks?

Do you have a sock drawer or do you keep them in a bin in your closet? Organizing your socks can be the first step in having a well organized closet and a well organized home.

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Are Your Socks Making You Poor? The Ultimate Organization Guide - Day 3

By Ingrid Talpak on January 3, 2013 12:00 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

How many pairs of socks do you own. No idea? Never thought about socks? Don't care? You do own socks don't you?

How many pairs of socks are there in your house hold. How many socks do you think your kids have. Must be about a million because there always seems to be some lying on the floor in the family room, right?

Socks are a prime example of something that is actually quite important in our lives but we tend to dismiss as trivial.

Try looking well dressed in a business suit with no socks on. Try skiing, skating or doing other sports with no socks on.

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Start Organizing Your Money - Budgets - Why Don't They Work?- The Ultimate Organizing Guide Day 2

By Ingrid Talpak on January 2, 2013 9:57 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Every single personal money management system starts with the same advice, that you have to make a budget and stick to it.

It makes sense, but for a lot of people budgets are just paper exercises because they have absolutely no idea how much they need to spend on their lives.

To manage your money you have to know what money comes in and what money goes out but so many budgets get blown by the first little crisis.

The argument always is "I absolutely needed it so I had to buy it" and if that absolute need is a new clothes for a child that had an unexpected growth spurt or to pay a vet bill then yes, you do need to spend the money.

But what about if your best friend is getting married in the Bahamas and wants you to be her maid of honor or if your son has a chance to go on an amazing, but costly, school trip?

Once again you might look at what you thought was a great budget and realize that it doesn't work and just abandon it.

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The Ultimate Organizing Guide - How to Get Organized and Live Rich - Day 1

By Ingrid Talpak on January 1, 2013 12:00 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Welcome to More Style Than Cash's Organizing Series!

Over the next 50 days I am going to show you how organizing your life is actually going to make you richer in so many different ways.

Live Rich is the concept of making money really do what you want it to do.

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January Deals

By Ingrid Talpak on January 1, 2013 11:57 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

New Year, new start. Hopefully your December was not too overindulgent.

Here at More Style Than Cash my New Years resolution is to live life with the most style, flare and beauty as I can on the tiniest amount of cash.

With Christmas over the one thing that is on sale everywhere is....Christmas stuff.

Yes a lot of it is still there because it was over priced to start with, or ugly or useless, but there are a few good items that make sense to buy.

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