Hip, Trinkle Chick, February 25th, 2007.

Greetings.

This is Kimberly Wilson and welcome to the 72nd edition of the Hip Trinklechick podcast, A Guide to Life on and Off the Yoga Mat.

Produced from the Pink Palace in Washington, D.C.

Today's podcast is an interview on soulful surroundings with expert Mary Carlo Magno,

topped off with a pose and look at the podcast and some fabulous tunes.

This concludes our final chapter in Hip Trencle Chick that we've been exploring together.

View our show notes at Hiptrankletchick.com slash blog.

So Mary is the owner of Order Period, which specializes in clutter control, urban apartment solutions, office spaces, and shopping addictions.

Mary's philosophy is simple.

Do not let clutter control your life. Her easygoing approach sends a style and strong communication skills, create an atmosphere where organizing is fun. She also recently published a book, Give It Up,

My Year of Learning to Live Better with Less,

and has been featured on the Today Show and Fox News.

Read more about Mary in the show notes.

So before I welcome Mary, I just want to share a few things that I recommended in the book

and little reminders on the minor things you can do around your home

to simplify and bring more order.

For example, one thing I did last night that I got an idea from in this book called

Living Artfully is I took a bunch of ribbons.

You know how you get ribbons on gifts and then you save them and you reuse them.

I took them out of a box that was overflowing and would barely close and that the cats have been getting into for about a year

now and put them into these lovely vases. And so you've got these lovely vases filled with

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