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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.

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 has courses, coaching and tools to fast-track your learning of imperative now-technology.
  303.378.9362

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

CAR MAINTENANCE

• Meining Automotive  303.772.5919  1001 2nd Ave., Longmont, CO   — I’ve been taking my car to Bill and Ron for over 8 years, whether it needs it or not! Love those guys!

COMPUTER SUPPORT

• Diana Thompson, Thompson Consulting. Firestone, CO 720.289.5581
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• Thomas Gronberg, TG Computer Services  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.  303-834-9461
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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  Toll Free: 888-332-3342  

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

• Jared Allomong, DC  Life Chiropractic / Chiropractor, Applied Kinesiologist, Cellular Energy Expert, N.E.T. Specialist and Natural Physician.   1600 Hover St. Suite C-1 Longmont, CO 80501  (303) 678-1979   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!)
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•  John Wendt, DC  Life Chiropractic   / Chiropractor, Applied Kinesiologist, Cellular Energy Expert, N.E.T. and other area specialist.   1600 Hover St. Suite C-1 Longmont, CO 80501  (303) 678-1979  Free lectures.  TELL HIM DR. DECLUTTER SENT YOU! GET $120 Initial Session for FREE!
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• Heather Hughes, Muscles in Motion, Inc. , Erie, CO      720-210-7077
  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          Dr. DeClutter sent you!   (I have gone to Heather and love her work.)
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• Mary Lou Hampton, Hampton Place Natural Health Center / Certified Naturopath, practiced in whole food nutritional healing for 16 years. Reiki Master, Licensed Massage Therapist. 614 W. Main  St. Fredericktown, MO  573-783-7102
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• MASSAGE - BODY WORK
• Susan Malin, Mountain Spirit Healing Arts Center. Massage, Cranial Sacral, Yuen Method and more. 713 3rd Ave., Longmont, CO 303.772.6655 (Susan is great!)
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• Brett Jetty, Massage Therapist.  Jenks/Tulsa, OK 918-361-3271.

HOME IMPROVEMENT / CLEANING  AND HANDYMAN SERVICES

• 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  720.470.9653  Lafayette, CO
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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 .

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. Dallas, TX  214.864.4504 (Lauren’s site was hacked recently, so if you’re interested and can’t access all of her site, just call her.)
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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. Boulder, CO. 303-444-5158 . This system of assessment, evaluation, and implementation will get you exactly where you want to go. 

 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.

“Take this marriage thing seriously -
it has to last all the way to the divorce.”
~ Roseanne Barr

Did you know that statistics show there are 1.2 million divorces in the U.S. every year? That means that every year, another 2.4 million people go through divorce. That doesn’t include the children, pets, in- an out-laws and all others affected emotionally and sometimes financially.

If the average cost of divorce is $20,000 per couple that means that Americans are spending $42 billion (yes, that’s billion) on divorces each year! AHHHHHHHHHH!

Stop losing your money, your mind and your mojo over personality and other “differences” gone south.

 If you have questions about your divorce, or need a “Divorce Survival Kit: How to Survive Your Divorce Financially” to help you through one, I want to introduce you to Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) Carol Ann Wilson, professionally trained as a Collaborative Divorce Specialist and a Certified Financial Divorce Practitioner. She is 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.

She has a deep passion to help people, men and women, financially survive their divorce. We have all seen it happen, time and time again, after divorce, one spouse or another (sometimes both!) struggle to stay afloat. It is just not necessary.

See Carol Ann’s Bookstore and get Carol Ann’s 10 Most Common Money Mistakes in Divorce.

Make sure to take those memories on film or with digital clicks this summer!

And, when you scrapbook them, write down as much as you can that will describe it so that tomorrow and decades from now anyone can know what the event was, where you were, the date, names, ages, what people were saying, funny things that happened, etc. 

June 21, 2009: My friend Suzi and her 13 year old daughter Laura from Nebraska. They came up to visit with husband/dad Myron to Estes Park. This photo is at Celestial Seasonings in Boulder. We took the tour; the Mint Room cleared our heads! This is Sleepytime Tea Bear in the tour video show room before the tour.

Why write all this? There is simply no way that you or they will remember those details if they are not recorded in some way, especially when on vacation when time gets blurred and neat fun factoids get lost and forgotten.

Don’t miss out on a great experience touring the Celestial Seasonings Tea Factory and Gift Shop when you’re near Boulder, CO. The Mint Room is awesome!

See Part 5 

Turn unused, odd and old pieces of jewelry into new jewelry and art!

You may find pieces that you’ll never wear, or one part is missing, a strand of beads has broken — but you can make art pieces out of them, or use them in your craft supplies. Put them in a separate container and label it. If you’re not the crafty one, give them to someone who is!

Restring beads, add a few new ones, glue to a broach back, etc.

Example: The above photos are pieces of new jewelry my friend Donlyn has made from disassembled old jewelry.

You can visit Donlyn’s beautiful Mercantile anytime to see what else she’s created, and buy it too!

Plus, this is a great way to recycle. Why head gems to the landfill when you someone can enjoy them one more time!

Sometimes our kitchen drawers, cabinets, pantries and other room storage areas just don’t work for us. ShelfGenie specializes in making you happy!! These drawers roll open and shut “like butta!”

GET A $100 DISCOUNT! Here’s a great deal for you if you live on the Front Range of Colorado! If you mention ”Dr. DeClutter” referred you, ShelfGenie will give you a $100 discount on your job!

Stop struggling with cabinets and drawers - call ShelfGenie today and enjoy your kitchen. See the number on the ad above.

Are you a knitter? Crocheter? Yarn project designer?

Do you wish you could stay on top of — and keep organized — your yarn, needles, patterns and projects?

Wish no more!

My friend Sherry L., a big knitter from Arvada, CO just told me about this very cool site - Ravelry (when you click and go to site, if you get dog pictures, you’ll need to try later, they must be busy telling a great yarn!) - where  you can

• Organize your projects, stash, needles, and more.
• Share and show off your work. Share your ideas and techniques.
• Discover and find new designs & yarns.
• Make friends.
• Try new things.
• Have great fun! and more!

Sherry stays motivated and moving forward easily with this nifty site.

Ravelry is a knit and crochet community, plus other yarn arts too.

Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools, and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration.

Ravelry if a place to make new friends while completing your own special projects.

Very unique - it’s content is all user- driven, “we as a community make the site what it is.”

At this posting, they have 349,355 registered users.

If you’re serious about getting your yarn projects done, and have more fun on the way, Raverly is for you!

Touch times bring out the fear and greed in people. Sadly, there always have been and always will be people who are more than willing and ready to take advantage of those in need, afraid and unlearned in the art-of-responsible-research for self preservation.  (Of course even some of the most learned can get caught up in a scam, the most recent cost many foundations millions and billions of dollars!)

The following is an email from Paul Duxbury, online coach and blogger from Altrincham, Cheshire, UK that covers the pot holes pretty well, and gives some ideas for a good path to follow.

NOTE: As with any referral/resource I offer, be responsible to check everything out for yourself as well for integrity and truth.

FROM PAUL:

For anyone with the skill to help others earn extra monies yes there is an opportunity - but it’s an opportunity to help people. Yes you can look to earn a reasonable amount
from helping people but there will be people who look to line their own pockets at your expense.  So this email is by way of highlighting some of the things you might
encounter and want to avoid!

Marketing Scams: Anyone who has researched ways to make money online has probably come across a scam or two.  Marketing scams have been around for a very long time, but the Internet has made it much easier for them to proliferate.  If you want to make money online, it’s critical to know as much as possible about marketing scams.  Following are some of the more common types of marketing scams.

Pyramid Schemes: A pyramid scheme is similar to multi-level marketing (MLM), which involves participants buying products to create commissions for the person who recruited them.  The recruits then recruit new participants from whom they will earn commissions, and the person above them also earns a commission on their recruits.

MLM is not a scam in and of itself, but pyramid schemes are.  Instead of selling products, participants in a pyramid scheme simply receive money from their recruits, who are then asked to recruit people to pay more money in, and so on.  This is illegal, and often results in loss of money for all but the people at the top of the pyramid.

Envelope Stuffing: Those who want to work from home but lack formal education are often thrilled when they find opportunities to make money stuffing envelopes from home.  With promised pay of a few dollars per envelope, it sounds too good to be true.  And it is.

Advertisements for envelope stuffing jobs usually ask interested parties to send $3 to $5 for more information.  Victims do not think twice about making this small investment because of the promised pay.  But when they send in their money, they receive instructions to place ads just like the ones they responded to and send respondents the
same instructions they received.  They are only paid when someone orders more information about stuffing envelopes.

Affiliate Marketing Scams: Affiliate marketing is a legitimate way to make money online, and it is fairly easy if you run a website or blog.  All you have to do is link to advertisers using a specially coded link, and if a sale is made, you receive a commission.  Lots of reputable companies have affiliate programs, but as in any case, there are a few bad seeds.

There are some warning signs to look for:  An affiliate program should always be free to join, because you are not required to buy a kit or samples.  Some programs that charge fees are just fronts for pyramid schemes, and others might take your money and run.  You should also be able to easily find contact information for the company.  If you’re in doubt, search Google for information about the company.  If it is a scam, you’ll probably find complaints online.

Marketing scams can cost opportunity seekers lots of money, and being taken in by them can be very disheartening.  By doing your homework on any company you consider getting involved with, however, you can usually weed out these scams.  There are legitimate opportunities out there, so don’t let the fear of being scammed stand in your way.

Some of you may have already seen something which has been receiving rave reviews from those looking to earn a little extra money.  It’s a resource that Paul has provided at
absolutely no charge and can be found at:

http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-money-now

I hope this slightly longer than usual email will help.

Take care, Paul http://www.paulduxbury.com/

NOTE: As with any referral/resource I offer, be responsible to check everything out for yourself as well for integrity and truth.