Have you ever driven around your neighborhood in the dead of winter and noticed how  many people park their nice cars outside their 3-car garage?  What's the garage full of that keeps them from parking in there?  I'll tell you what's in there!  Old junk their family no longer needs and bulk purchases from warehouse clubs!

I don't understand the logic behind buying say, toilet paper or paper…

Passerbys have certainly been intrigued by the signs in the vacant shop at 127 South Washington Street announcing that a new specialty bakery, tea room and gift shop is coming soon. 

Le Chocolat du Bouchard is expanding to serve European inspired pastries, chocolates, breakfast and lunch next door to their existing location at 129 South Washington Street.

Cathy Bouchard, the bakery’s owner anticipates the new business opening this summer. “We’ve…

You've started organizing clutter and have found a bunch of things you no longer need.  Please remember that anything that is still in working order can be useful to someone in need so donate whatever you can before recycling.  But now you ask yourself, "where can I donate this?"

As a professional organizer, the topic of donating comes up all…

You've started organizing clutter and have found a bunch of things you no longer need.  Inevitably, there will be things that are beyond their useful life. Don't throw it out, recycle it!  But now you ask yourself, "where can I recycle this?"  There are so many more things that can be recycled beyond what they take at your curb!…

Three years ago, I decided on sort of a whim to sign up for the Naperville Women's Triathlon, which was at that time part of the United States Women's Triathlon Series.  It had, for years, been on my "bucket list", but I had a million different excuses as to why I couldn't do it "that year".  My youngest child was not quite 6 months old and I had two more who were also very young, I did not own a bike, I hadn't swam in years, I didn't know what to wear and I had virtually no idea what to…

As I’m sure many of you are like me and have been spending real quality time your adoring families - thanks to good ol’ spring break, this year my husband and I decided to let the grandparents get in on the family fun. After sending my rambunctious trio out of town to visit my husband’s parents for the week, you would think I would have had a quiet house to myself. No kids, no mess, no fighting or whining, well you thought…