I’m a professional organizer – there’s an easy way to keep your home in order and you don’t need to buy ANYTHING
GETTING organized can seem daunting at first, but there are some simple and free ways to get your home in check. Kim Komando, who regularly shares organizational tips on Fox, says it’s all in the digital detail – and best of all you don’t need to buy anything. “Over the past five months, I sold […]
GETTING organized can seem daunting at first, but there are some simple and free ways to get your home in check.
Kim Komando, who regularly shares organizational tips on Fox, says it’s all in the digital detail – and best of all you don’t need to buy anything.
“Over the past five months, I sold the home we lived in for the past 17 years and bought a temporary home that we’re living in until our new home is done being built,” she began.
“That’s three homes’ continuous stream of details, including utility bills, repair invoices, home inspection reports, insurance documents, cable and internet bills, landscaping services, and much more.”
To keep it all in one place, the expert recommends that all homeowners should have a personal email address just for their home.
Kim said: “Even if you’ve lived in the same house for years, the emails can stack up. Creating an email account specifically for your home helps you manage and track of all those messages without losing anything in the sea of your primary inbox.
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“It’s a good idea to share a dedicated home email address with others in your household. You and your spouse can manage messages without bugging each other to forward this or that.
“If you need more convincing, it’s a great idea to use this email to set up accounts for things like streaming services, Pinterest, grocery delivery, and anything else home-related.”
Kim says there are two ways to go about setting up an email address. You can create a brand-new email account with its login info or create an alias account tied to your primary email address.
She appreciates that both methods have their pros and cons – but using an alias is easier as you can set up a folder to capture all the emails sent to this account within your primary inbox.
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Once set up, all of your “home based” messages should be in one spot and easy to find.
And in the event that you regularly get messages related to your home from certain senders, Kim advises to set up automatic forwarding for specific contacts, sending those messages to your new inbox or label.
Instructions to do so, can be found on the Gmail and Outlook help websites respectively.
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