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Cord Chaos Tip:

This tip will take a while to do, but will be well worth it when you are done. If you look underneath your desk or behind your TV cabinet, do you see cables and cords running everywhere and all tangled up? If you were moving house tomorrow, would you have any idea what goes into where? Could you put them all back together again without losing it or needing a medicinal Chardy to calm your nerves?

Go behind your desk and grab the first cord you see and follow it up to the top. What does it come out of? Let's say it comes out of your computer monitor. Grab a pen and a sticky label and write "Back of Monitor", then wrap the label around the cord. Now follow the cord to the other end. In this case, it goes into the back of the hard drive. Do another label that says "Back of hard drive" Continue doing this with each of your cords till they are all labelled. You should also use this time to detangled the cords so they are a bit more organised.

Now you will always know what cord plugs into where and if you need to unplug something, all you need to look at is the labels on the cords in the power plugs and you won't accidentally unplug the TV when you meant to unplug the DVD Player.

On another note – Last week I talked about a client of mine who had 3000 items in her deleted box. I must apologise because I was inaccurate in my quote. She actually has 8500!!! I saw them with my own eyes! Of course, she and I are going to spend some time working on this electronic clutter in the NEAR future.

If you have little people running around your house like I do, this tip is especially for you!

To remove fingerprints from stainless steel appliances, get some baby oil and a cloth, put a little bit of oil on the cloth and rub it on the dirty areas. The fingerprints should just wipe away!