Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional

organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home

organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events.

So sit back, relax, and let's get organized.

Welcome to week three of the I-B this week we're going to be talking about

catalogs. Should we keep them? Should we keep them and where are we going to keep

them? If you want to see pictures of the very few catalogs that I have and

yes I do have physical catalogs the pictures are on my blog at Organize 365.com

slash idle 3 and that's IDLE and the number 3. So let's talk about

catalogs. I remember growing up I mean I loved catalogs especially as a kid when I was in high school I

remember collecting all those catalogs that had furniture in them what would be today

like an IKEA catalog I can't remember what the companies were,

Pier 1, things like that. And I would cut out pictures and I did scale drawings of my future

house and I had picked out all the furniture that was going to be my future house and everything that was going to go with it and then I would itemize how much it would cost and then I figured out what job I'd have to have to pay for the house.

I mean like, this is what I did for fun in case you're wondering how you become a professional organizer.

Yeah, you spend a lot of time doing things like that.

So I love catalogs.

I love being able to see things and I actually love physical catalogs. Now one of my goals in 2015

it started the middle of last year is to become where I can buy almost everything

and anything online. Like I am so tired of going to grocery stores driving, getting

cold, rained on, and carrying things. I really would like other people to do all of

those things and I just want what I want shipped to my door. I actually find I'm saving money this way because I'm not doing as much impulse buying.

...