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Who’s on your team? With the right team of experts in our corner, we can stay well, keep our home and businesses humming and enjoy life much more.

I love meeting people who are great at what they do. Here is a list of experts in various fields who I recommend for your specific needs. They should also have others who will testify to their good works, make sure to check on their referrals as well as you would otherwise. (If a link is dead or phone number not theirs anymore, I apologize and please let me know so that I can edit it: kim@drdeclutter.com)

A-Z: Some are in Longmont, CO area where I live, others around the country.

BUSINESS

• Kim Dushinski, Mobile Marketing Profits   Learn how to use your mobile phone/technology to market your business to your niche customers for more and better business success. Mobile marketing consultant, author of The MobileMarketing Handbook Kim offers courses, Bootcamps, coaching and tools to fast-track your learning of imperative now-technology.
  303.378.9362

CAR MAINTENANCE

• Meining Automotive  Family owned for several generations. I’ve been taking my car to Bill and Ron for over 11 years, whether it needs it or not! Love those guys! 1001 2nd Ave., Longmont, CO 303.772.5919 

COMPUTER, WEBSITE, WORDPRESS and ONLINE SUPPORT

• Diana Thompson, Thompson Consulting.  Expert knowledge, reasonable rates and hands-on trianing for tech veterans to novices. We work with small businesses and with individuals to make sure their technology works for them and not the other way around. Computer Networks;  Date Storage; Anti-Virus Security; Purchasing a PC/MAC; Installing Software; Training & Coaching; Senior Citizens; Household Tech; Business Recovery.

          Senior Citizen Helper! Diana also works directly with seniors to help them buy computers, digital
          cameras and other tech-gadgets and teaches them how to use them!  
          Firestone, CO   720-340-8045

• Thomas Gronberg, TG Computer Services. www.tgcomputerservices.com Personalized service in computer repair and maintenance, website maintenance and management, computer network support and computer instruction for small business, home business and individual computer users.  720-296-5708
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• Tom Walker, Walker Communication. Advertising and branding services with decades of experience – including extensive web and social media expertise.  We’ve worked for the full range of clients from individuals to Fortune 500 multinationals. We’re totally affordable – find out more at http://walkercommunication.com/ 
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• Kirk Tylor, Innovative Quality Systems. kirkt@iqsnetworks.com Secure and stable computer networks for businesses, medical industry, and more. Distance work.  Longmont, CO 720.838.1000

FINANCIAL PLANNING

• Carol Ann Wilson,  Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) professionally trained as a Collaborative Divorce Specialist and a Certified Financial Divorce Practitioner. Get her “Divorce Survival Kit: How to Survive Your Divorce Financially”-  a nationally recognized expert in divorce financial planning and have been quoted in hundreds of articles throughout the country. In addition, she works as a pre-divorce financial analyst/consultant through her consulting company, and is an expert witness in court.  303.774.1225  or 888.332.3342 

HAIR, NAILS AND SPAS

• Jacki Lynn Sanderson, Nails and Hair. www.MysticGardenSpa.com She’s given me mani/pedi – great job! Mystic Garden Spa, Longmont, CO 303.774.2541

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

       CHIROPRACTIC / BODY WORK

• Jared Allomong, DC  Allomong Center for Applied Kinesiology / Chiropractor, Applied Kinesiologist, Cellular Energy Expert, N.E.T. Specialist and Natural Physician.  Free lectures.  TELL HIM DR. DECLUTTER SENT YOU! GET $120 Initial Session for FREE! (Dr. Jared is my wellness practitioner and I’ve rec’d tons of positive shifts and changes by his gifted work including a total release of 32 years of hypoglycemia/low blood sugar problems in four sessions. Yea!) http://www.allomongak.com/  1225 Ken Pratt Blvd. Suite 137, Longmont, CO  (opposite end of LePeep building!) 303.827.3772
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•  John Wendt, DC  Life Chiropractic / Chiropractor, Applied Kinesiologist, Cellular Energy Expert, N.E.T. and other area specialist.   Free lectures.  TELL HIM DR. DECLUTTER SENT YOU! GET $120 Initial Session for FREE! http://www.inspirelifechiropractic.com/index.html  Life Chiropractic, 825 Delaware Ave. Suite P103, Longmont, CO(NE Corner of tall red brick building),  303.678.1979
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• Heather Hughes, Muscles in Motion, Inc. , Erie, CO    Splankna Therapy offers a Christian protocol for Energy Psychology developed from an integration of Neuro-Emotional Technique, T.F.T. (Thought Field Therapy), E.M.D.R. (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and spiritual warfare. It provides a straightforward, mechanistic treatment procedure for alleviating a wide range of psychological and physical symptoms through both a Healing Protocol and a Creative Protocol. It attempts to address symptoms comprehensively; attending to the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the problem and its solution.  FREE INITIAL SESSION, Value: $75 – when you TELL HER DRDECLUTTER SENT YOU!   (I have gone to Heather and love her work.) Heather his also a massage therapist. Erie, CO 720.210.7077
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• Mary Lou Ridge, Mary Lou’s Natural Health Center, Certified Naturopath, practiced in whole food nutritional healing for 17 years, Reiki Master, Licensed Massage Therapist, Contemporary Cupping, Fredericktown, MO  573.783.4343

      MASSAGE – BODY WORK

• Susan Malin, Mountain Spirit Healing Arts Center. Massage, Cranial Sacral, Yuen Method and more. Susan is great! 713 3rd Ave., Longmont, CO 303.772.6655
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• Brett Jetty, Massage Therapist.  Author of Still Standing, OK/OZARKS  918.906.9993
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• The North Front Range Healing Touch Clinic, Boulder, CO / 1 hour sessions, meets first Thursday of month, contact Nicole 303-478-1617. Part of the American Holistic Nurses Association,  www.ahna.org
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• Heather Hughes, Muscles in Motion, Inc.  Erie, CO 720.210.7077

     COUNSELING / THERAPY / PSYCHOTHERAPY

• Judith Partin, M.A.,LPC  ~ Psychotherapist. Specialities include thriving with chronic health conditions and other adult/senior life issues. Health = Vision, Support, Resources. Regain your balance. Appointments by telephone or Boulder/Longmont offices. www.judithpartin.com

HOME IMPROVEMENT / CLEANING  & HANDYMAN SERVICES / PROPERTY MNGT

• David Schadle, David’s Home Improvement / Plumbing, Electricity, Carpentry, Painting   303.588.2862 / 303.530.1173  Boulder, CO
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• Steve Breffle, THE JOB SHOP Handyman Services / Carpentry, Small Jobs, Plumbing, Electrician  303.517.4086 Boulder County, CO
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• Joel Fein, H.M.S. Handy Man Services  Lafayette, CO 720.470.9653 
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• ShelfGenie specializes in making you happy by making your kitchen drawers, cabinets, pantry and other storage areas roll open and shut “like butta!”
  Colorado customers: Call Troy Cook at 970.372.1242 - GET A $100 DISCOUNT! Here’s a great deal for you if you live on the Front Range of Colorado! When you tell Troy that ”Dr. DeClutter” referred you, ShelfGenie will give you a $100 discount on the job he installs!
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• MaidPro, a national company. In the Broomfield, CO area, call Stephanie at MaidPro, Cleaning Services – 303.664.5666 — to discuss and schedule your house cleaning appointment. Or, email: cocustomerservice@maidpro.com .
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• Competent Helper, LLC. In the Longmont, CO areas Greg and Cindi Taylor are ready to help you with Property Management/Maintenance, Move-Outs and Deep Cleans. Licensed and Insured since 2008. 970.308.8022 / 303.888.2220.
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• BJ’s Lock & Key, Inc. Need help with your keys, locks or safes? Contact BJ’s Lock & Key in Longmont, CO today! 303.774.7766  
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• Perez Cleaning Business, House and Office. Licensed and Insured. 18 years experience. I know Blanca Perez personally. Her services are exemplary. Boulder County area. 303.875.5220
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• Johnson Sharpening. Sharpen scissors, knives, blades and more. Longmont, CO. 303.684.8364

JOB HUNTING 

• Lauren Hasson, The Resume Girl. Helping college students and recent graduates land their first job or internship with the perfect resume to evaluating offers. Work by phone, Internet and in person.  (Lauren’s site was hacked recently, so if you’re interested and can’t access all of her site, just call her.) Dallas, TX  214.864.4504
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• Nina Freidman, High Q Career Services.  Counsel, train, and consult with you concerning your comprehensive career plan and to empower you to become gainfully employed in work that you love. Effective strategies for finding and landing a great job, and counseling sessions. Sessions: in person or by phone. This system of assessment, evaluation, and implementation will get you exactly where you want to go.  Boulder, CO. 303.444.5158 

WRITING/EDITING

• Lori Mitchell, Impact Editing   Stand out in the crowd — DO YOU HAVE A WEBSITE, BOOK, ARTICLE, CATALOG, BROCHURE, OR BUSINESS REPORT?
  Be confident in what you present to the world. Impact Editing delivers professional editing, proofreading, and content consultation to make your content hit its mark. Give yourself the peace of mind that comes after an experienced editor has checked all the details. With Impact Editing, your project, no matter how big or small, will receive personal, responsive attention at a competitive rate. We can assist you at any stage of your project.
  719.640.8851

“For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road.
We stayed with my in-laws,
which on life’s list of experiences ranks right below
sitting in a tub full of scissors.”
~ Jeff Foxworthy   

Dull scissors are the pits! Dull hair scissors are a disaster for your finely clipped do!

I confess, I cut my own hair. I have most of my life. I get it reshaped by at a salon about twice a year, then, as it grows out, usually unevenly anyway, I trim it up. I started doing this out of frustration at paying for a cut and coming home to find it uneven already! Having to trim it up to get it even all around made me just do it myself on an ongoing basis.

So, if you do this too, and I know many, many do . . . make sure you have a very sharp pair of good hair scissors. I bought mine at Sally’s Beauty Supply years ago here in Longmont.

I just recently had them sharpened (waited way past necessary) at Johnson Sharpening. They have a table at the Farmer’s Market each summer. They take your shears and bring them back the next week for pick up. They also have a store front, find out more at JohnsonSharpening.com.

Boy, it’s SO nice to have them all sharp again!

If you have any kind of scissors that need sharpening, Search online “scizzor sharpening + your city”. It’s really worth it.

Most shops do other items as well like knives, saws, blades, mowers and tools.

I’ve heard it a million times in my workshops and on-the-job with my organizing clients, “I hate all this junk mail! How can I stop it?”

Organizing around heaps and piles and stacks, no matter what the size, will never end up with a nice, clean space and surface if you continually have junk mail, and unwanted catalogs, phone books and such that keep coming in.

How do you get off of them?

Go to Catalog Choice and FOR FREE (YEA!) sign up and get to keying in your unwanted mailers and see the clutter start to lessen sooner than later!

Plus, just think what a great “Green” idea this is! The more unwanted paper you stop from coming into your home, the less of those items will be printed! That’s my wish!

Did you know that it’s against the law to throw electronics in the trash? It is in many states.  But, and this will be a “duh!” . . . we shouldn’t need laws to tell us to do what is common sense and important to help keep the soil, air, water and ultimately, all living beings (us) to stay healthy in the first place by keeping our environment clean and healthy.

We all know that “throwing” our computers and monitors, and for that matter, any tech gadgets into the trash is not only a bad idea, but don’t always take the time to do the right thing to recycle them correctly. I’ve been in many a house and business where there are small to tall stacks of e-waste - computers, printers, monitors, phones and other electronic gadgets and parts - waiting for somewhere to go. My clients are trying to do the right thing, but it’s also sucking up a percentage of their living, working or storage space in the mean time.

Recyclers recover more than 100 million pounds of materials from electronics each year. It’s still only a drop in the bucket of all the electronics that need to be recycled correctly.

So, how and where to dispose of them? I’m going to lead you to a few sites that give you lots of information, not just my area, as every state is different. But for those in the Longmont, Colorado area where I live, I want to tell you that I just found out last week where you can take your computer towers  to be recycled and reused FOR FREE!

Longmont area:

1.  Computer Specialists of Longmont These awesome folks have a local gadget guy that takes them repurposes them. YEA! Give them a call first and ask about taking your flat screen and laptop too. Just no big old montors (like the one I’m looking at while typing right now! (I love my big, old T-REX monitor!!)

And, of course, don’t see Computer Specialists as just a dumping ground! Take time to shop; see their in-store products and give them your real business too – I just had a computer fixed – they’re the “specialists!”, really nice and EZPZ to work with.

2. G&S Mountain Recyclers - This is another Longmont business where they also destroy your harddrive and refurbish computers for local non-profits. Watch their video, which not only shows what they do to recycle computers, but how great that they’re making a difference in our community by creating jobs, linking up with the local LaborForce. Great job G&S! 

And what about all your other egadgets? G&S can take care of all the e-waste you can’t just donate, but for a fee can let it go! I know we hate paying to get rid of these things, but really, you’ve enjoyed it, it’s served you for months, years, decades! . . . pay a small fee and let it go. This fee constitutes your taking care of us all, and yourself in the long run.

Denver: BuyMyTronics 

How and where to dispose of computers and other electronics:

First place to start is to go online to search for your local e-cycle, eco-cycle and recycle centers.

Most larger towns have one for paper, plastic, glass, etc. and will have their electronics recycle plan for the greater community or region or can lead you to where it is. Here’s Longmont’s as an example which includes Shred Events! Yea again! Don’t miss my article on how to shred too.

Plug-In To eCycling Partners

Earth911  Great ideas for lots of things that need recycling.

DigitalTips

Thank you for loving our planet!

Pass this to anyone you know that is undergoing chemotherapy.

Cleaning for a Reason – http://www.cleaningforareason.org/

If you know any woman currently undergoing chemotherapy, please pass the word to her that there is
a cleaning service that provides FREE housecleaning – once per month for 4 months while she is in treatment.

All she has to do is sign up and have her doctor fax a note confirming the treatment.

Cleaning for a Reason will have a participating maid service in her zip code area arrange for the service.

This organization serves the entire USA and currently has 547 partners to help these women.

It’s our job to pass the word and let them know that there are people out there that care.

Be a blessing to someone and pass this information along.

You may not know someone going through chemo, but someone on your email list might. Please forward this link!

 Disney rocks and never disappoints!

I just got home from seeing the late, late, late showing of Tangled. Wow! Soooo good!While in the bathroom afterwards I overheard several late teen/early 20′s girls talking about the movie. They decided that (spoiler here if you haven’t seen it yet) “He shouldn’t have cut her hair off before she saved him from dying.” What these young women didn’t get is that her “magical hair” had to go exactly at that point. She had to learn through that moment of pure love, loss and letting go that her magical powers of healing weren’t in her hair, they were in her!

As all fables and fairytales go, the lesson’s are for the viewers.

We each need to remember that our powers are not in our hair, looks, clothes, money, houses, titles or cars… our power is in us. Always has been, always will be. Take away the outer stuff and things and looks and you have you. YOU are your power!

This new year, take up your inner, true power and save yourself first… then others and the world!

Here’s Disney’s interactive site – dive in and have fun! You have to watch the trailer first, then you get into the gallery of real fun stuff! http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/tangled/#/home/

Or, check out their CREATE section! http://disney.go.com/create/#/create/  Enjoy with your kids or grandkids, or that inner kid in you just aching to play more!

HAPPY NEW YOU!

If you can make it, don’t miss this great event coming soon in September by Jill Vegas!

She says, “Have you ever wished you could simply close your eyes, then open them again to find a glamorous room decorated in your favorite style? Or go on vacation for a week and return to a fabulous house that is revived and sparkling?

Well, join the club! As wonderful as it would be to have a personal, decorating fairy godmother, most of us know that it takes hard work to accomplish changes like these. The question is, how hard? How long must it take? My book, Speed Decorating, has inspired many make-overs.

If you’re ready to tackle a project this fall, sign up for this hands-on Speed Decorating course!”

This is an intense course that will change the way you look at your home, space and future. Visit http://www.jillvegas.com/events.htm to find out how you can attend!

 Where has your purse been today?

Where does your purse, tote or briefcase sit when not on your shoulder?

At work it’s on the floor; at home, it gets tossed on the kitchen counter; at the gym it’s back onto the floor or into a well-used locker, and at restaurants, it’s on the table or bench, chair seat, floor and sometimes lap. At the park it goes in the grass or on the sidewalk or dirt; at the beach in the sand or on rocks; in bathrooms it sits on the wash basin counter or bathroom floor; in the car it’s on the floor and in the bar they end up anywhere.

And, whether you switch purses often or just have a favorite one, toting a well-used handbag or “tote” can be hazardous to your health!

What is common to all these places where our purses and bags sit or lay in lumps is another whole world . . . of invisible germs. Lots and lots of germs.

TESTING: So, let’s swab your purse it to see what kind of germs are on it, shall we?

Upon swabbing the bottom and handles of your purse – samples placed in sterile vials and sent off to a lab for analysis -and after incubation and intense testing what we find is pretty disgusting!

A real study at Nelson Labs in Salt Lake City states:
 - “We had several of them that came back with fecal contamination.”
 - “I don’t think they ever realize what they are transferring onto the plate. That is basically like wiping feces on your plate and eating it,” said Rollins, microbiologist.
 - In one sampling, four of five handbags tested positive for salmonella, and that’s not the worst of it. Microbiologist Amy Karen says nearly all of the handbags tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria. Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections and if ingested it can cause serious food illness and sickness, and salmonella and e-coli found on the handbags could make people very sick.

GET YOUR SHOES OFF THE TABLE!
Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a pair of shoes.
If you think about putting a pair of shoes onto your countertops, that’s the same thing you’re doing when you put your handbag on The countertops – your handbag has gone where individuals before you have sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc!

The scientific word to cover all this would be, “Ew!”

This goes for men and women with briefcases and gym bags of any kind.

SOLUTION
1. Use hooks to hang up your purse where possible, like on bathroom stall doors, etc. and over back of chairs. Here’s a great gadget to help you keep your purse off the floor while sitting at the table. JoeyJunior table hook to hold your purse off the floor and off the table.
2. Never put your purse/briefcase on the table top where food has been (and not cleaned off), floor or other place where feet and feces will naturally have been.
3. Clean, wipe down, launder and clean out your purse regularly. 

The JoeyJunior table hook shown holding purses above keeps your purse off the floor, off the table and safely in your reach! Order here. Comes in 5 beautiful colors.

My brother, Dave, a cooking maniac, found this crazy-good site.

Do you ever look in your cupboards, frig and freezer and wonder how to make a meal out of the parts and bits you have? Wonder no more!

Go to SuperCook – just enter any ingredient you have in your kitchen – anything you’ve got – in fact ALL of the ingredients you have in the house one by one! Be amazed at the thousands of recipe options you’ll get.

Supercook is a new recipe search engine that finds recipes you can make with only the ingredients you have at home. To begin, simply start adding ingredients you have in the green box on the top left. The more ingredients you add, the better the results will be.

All of life should be this cool. Good job creative SuperCook people!!

 HELP! Too many websites, newsletters, blogs and other online sites that need a user-name and password can be maddening. Ever forget one and waste a bunch of time and energy trying to remember it and keying in possibilities?

Or, maybe you have little slips of paper with your passwords and web addresses stacked up or stuck to your computer, or in a dog-eared notebook. Not the most efficient system.It really isn't your brain's job to keep track of all those. You need a "system." So, what to do? Two that I recommend are below.