Julie Bestry, CPO®

How to Organize Yourself for a Stress-Free Tax Season | Best Results Organizing Learn how to locate and organize your paperwork, receipts, and IRS forms for the 2026 tax season — with practical tips and fun pop culture to keep motivated.

How to Organize Yourself for a Stress-Free Tax Season

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Paper Doll’s Cheat Sheet for Celebrating Time Management Month | Best Results Organizing Time management involves the following elements, each with it's own challenges. Today's post gives you multiple posts through which you can time jump to find the advice that best serves your needs. Kn...

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Fresh Starts and Clean Slates - Productivity & Organizing Blog Carnival A collection of blog posts about fresh starts as you enter a new year, with an emphasis on organizing and productivity

It's only January 23rd, but many find the year's plan is getting muddy. This month's Productivity & Organizing Blog Carnival is focused on Fresh Starts & Clean Slates, and I'm delighted to have one of my posts included along with those of my colleagues.

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Pro Organizing Tips for Every Room in the House: A Guide to the Most Critical Areas by Stephanie Denson  A well-organized home isn’t just visually appealing—it saves time, reduces stress, and makes everyday tasks smoother. But with so many rooms and responsibil…

As we continue through #GOMonth2026, my @napo_natl colleague Stephanie Denson shares her guide for keeping the key areas of a home decluttered, organized, and functional.

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Don’t Get Locked Out: How to Set up a Recovery Contact for Apple and Google | Best Results Organizing Our relationship to technology gets ever more complicated with each passing year. People are glued to their phones. Some folks fall in love with their AI chatbots. We get so frustrated when we can't l...

Don't Get Locked Out: How to Set up a Recovery Contact for Apple and Google

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Why We Keep Too Much Stuff—And How Small Steps toward Organization Can Transform Daily Life By Nicole Ramer, CPO®, SMM-C®, Senior Home Coach™  Most of us never intend for clutter to take over our homes. Yet slowly—overstuffed drawers, “just for now” piles, boxes we plan to …

January is Get Organized and Be Productive Month, or #GOMonth, as developed by NAPO.

Clutter cost time, money, space, relationships, and emotional equilibrium. This post shows a better way.

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26 Ways to Celebrate GO Month to Get More Organized and Productive | Best Results Organizing Happy New Year! Happy GO Month! Each January is Get Organized & Be Productive (GO) Month. Back in 2005, NAPO (then called the National Association of Professional Organizers) proclaimed the first Get ...

26 Ways to Celebrate GO Month to Get More Organized and Productive

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2025 Wrapped: Do An Annual Review To Design Your Best Life | Best Results Organizing ~ Socrates WRAPPING UP PAPER DOLL'S 2025 There's no getting away from your annual review. It all started with an email from Spotify Wrapped. Spotify was one of the first online platforms to sum up a u...

2025 Wrapped: Do An Annual Review To Design Your Best Life

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Paper Doll on the Power of a DONE List | Best Results Organizing DON'T BE LISTLESS We all know the power of a To-Do list. When we're feeling overwhelmed by all the little dings in our brains reminding us, over and over, of what we have to do, we turn to a brain dum...

With the end of the year so busy (and so close), it's easy to get down on yourself regarding what's UNfinished. Instead, focus on all you HAVE achieved!

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Thank you for sharing, Sabrina!

Best of 2025 - Productivity & Organizing Blog Carnival The Best of 2025 is a compilation of my readers' best blog posts of the year. Get valuable tips and inspiration for your own blog!

It’s an honor to be a part of this annual tradition and to be included with so many of my colleagues, showing off the depth and breath of expertise in the organizing in productivity field.

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Meet Your Organizing Elves: The Pros Who Help Get Your Life in Order | Best Results Organizing Time management is a huge headache, too. Not only do those requests for toys and bikes and little red wagons (and all the modern digital doodads) need to be filled, wrapped, and packed onto the sleigh...

Meet Your Organizing Elves: The Pros Who Help Get Your Life in Order

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Paper Doll Organizes Snoop-Proof Ways To Hide, Label, and Wrap Holiday Gifts | Best Results Organizing ORGANIZE YOUR HOLIDAY GIFT HIDING PLACES Very often, I find that the best place to keep gifts, wrapped or otherwise, from the prying eyes of tiny humans and others with insatiable curiosity is in an o...

Paper Doll Organizes Snoop-Proof Ways To Hide, Label, and Wrap Holiday Gifts
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Show Me the Money — A 2025 Guide to Finding Forgotten Funds & Unclaimed Property | Best Results Organizing Whether you spend a small fortune over each Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend or you're super-cautious with your dollars and cents throughout the year, I bet you'd like to have more money. And I bet y...

What do Uncle Billy from "It's a Wonderful Life," the Bluths from "Arrested Development," and Milton from "Office Space" have in common? Find out in today's new Paper Doll post.

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Organize Your Life for More Reading Opportunities | Best Results Organizing If you love reading, summertime means finding a good beach read. Thanksgiving and the December holidays may mean finding books to read for when you finally escape the hubbub. And the darkest part of w...

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When Your European Hotel Room Feels Like an Escape Room — Conquer Confusing Showers, A/C, and Light Switches | Best Results Organizing Baffled by European hotel showers, thermostats, or light switches? Learn how to decode foreign fixtures and controls to organize your room like a pro traveler.

When Your European Hotel Room Feels Like an Escape Room — Conquer Confusing Showers, A/C, and Light Switches

With cameos by Laura Petrie (from The Dick Van Dyke Show), Crocodile Dundee, and Steve Martin in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

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Paper Doll Explains Aspirational vs. Inspirational Clutter | Best Results Organizing An excess of nostalgic emblems of our past can fill up our homes in the present and prevent us from having space in our lives to make a future. Share on X Painful or sad clutter — This category encomp...

All clutter is not the same. It's not a monolith, and it's common for people to misunderstand what they have and why. But understanding the difference is key to figuring out what to keep and what to set free.

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Maintenance, or How Eyeliner Is Like the Phone Bill | Best Results Organizing [This first Paper Doll post was originally published in October 2007, eighteen years ago. Paper Doll is now old enough to vote!] THE WISDOM OF NORA EPHRON I'm reading I Feel Bad About My Neck by the b...

It's hard for me to believe it's been 18 years since I published my first Paper Doll blog post! My blog is old enough to vote! (I didn't know how to format, but I still embraced pop culture and humor!)

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The free webinar series from the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy begins this week on Tuesday 9/16 & Wednesday 9/17 at 6pm, w/a two-part session on birthright citizenship.
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I spent my day thinking about Melissa Hortman and her husband and her doggie. Every time I found a vile social media post screaming in religiously-coded language about Charlie Kirk, I searched the poster’s history. Not one said a word when Melissa was murdered; not one post decried it.

Organize to Help the Seniors in Your Life With Technology | Best Results Organizing This post was originally published on May 27, 2024, and has been updated as of September 8, 2025 to reflect additional information and resources, including revised links. We love technology. However, ...

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Organize and Lower Your Medical Bills: Spot Errors, Negotiate Costs, and Save Money | Best Results Organizing And, of course, if you are recovered and back to work, you're probably trying to maximize your time to catch up on everything you missed while being waylaid by illness or injury. How do you decide it'...

Organize and Lower Your Medical Bills: Spot Errors, Negotiate Costs, and Save Money juliebestry.com/2025/08/25/o...

How to Track, Lower, or Cancel Your Recurring Subscription-Based Bills | Best Results Organizing Categorize subscriptions however you like, and use the color-code calendar view to track payment dates and the generated graphs of subscription expenses to analyze your costs. You'll have to do your o...

How to Track, Lower, or Cancel Your Recurring Subscription-Based Bills

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Organize Your College-Bound Student for Grownup Life: Part 3 | Best Results Organizing Parents, you're counting down the precious days left with your college-bound students. Meanwhile, they're counting down until they experience "freedom" and (gulp) adult responsibilities. In recent pos...

Organize Your College-Bound Student for Grownup Life: Part 3, covering time management, academic success strategies, etiquette, car care, avoiding scams, and random life skills, plus a plethora of resources for parents!

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Organize Your College-Bound Student for Grownup Life: Part 2 | Best Results Organizing From living with strangers to not having parents and teachers overseeing study habits and self-care, college is a melange of delightful freedom and terrifying responsibility. Last week, in Organize Yo...

Organize Your College-Bound Student for Grownup Life: Part 2, covering communication, health, safety, and the bane of every college kid's existence: laundry!

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Organize Your College-Bound Student for Grown-Up Life: Part 1 | Best Results Organizing In a matter of weeks, fresh-faced first-year college students will be headed off to begin their adult lives. Everyone needs a little organizational guidance on this path. Last week, I re-shared a popu...

Last summer, I wrote almost 11,000 words over three posts on how to get your kid ready for college. Here you go! Starting with essential paperwork and info, finances, and insurance:

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How to Stay Organized When Travel Goes Off the Rails (or Runway) | Best Results Organizing (This wasn't my flight. But in a way, don't we all feel like this was our flight?) The temperature continued to rise. Passengers were polite and resigned, except that after about half an hour, an anno...

How to Stay Organized When Travel Goes Off the Rails (or Runway) — with shoutouts for @thepointsguy.com @nomadicmatt.bsky.social @budgettraveller.bsky.social @tripit @wanderlog.bsky.social @flightradar24.com @thecontainerstore.bsky.social @usdot.bsky.social

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Why the Humble Bankers Box is Still the MVP of Office Organization | Best Results Organizing Perhaps it's these negative images of bankers that often left my clients dubious over the past 24 years when I've suggested that they might benefit from using Bankers Boxes. Some (younger) clients had...

Why the Humble Bankers Box is Still the MVP of Office Organization*

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*with a correction to the type that previously appeared in the graphic. It's so Monday.

Paper Doll Plays Ice Cream Man: Cool Organizing and Productivity Treats for Hot Days | Best Results Organizing We've managed — perhaps with a few bumps and bruises to our productivity — to make it through one-half of the year. Perhaps you've reached your goals or are on our way toward them. Maybe the temperatu...

You deserve sweet treats! Keep your timers safe, customize the lengths of your sticky notes, and organize away your stress in today's Paper Doll post!

Shoutouts for @Time Timer, @victortechbrands.bsky.social, Anxiety Bookshelf, & Workman MJ (and his mommy).

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Digital Disaster Prep: How to Organize Your Tech Info Before You Need It | Best Results Organizing Do your digital devices ever frustrate you? You probably use your computer much of the day. Even if you don't, you likely grab your phone or your tablet with some frequency. You're on the internet, an...

NEW Paper Doll Post | Digital Disaster Prep: How to Organize Your Tech Info Before You Need It — with shoutouts for @hivesystems.com, the late, great Alan Rickman, the movie Office Space, and my never forgotten ruby iMac G3.

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