Tip #265: Organize Your Life!
Retirement Yenta loves to have things in their proper place, but sometimes life gets a little busy and things get placed somewhere more convenient than proper…and then the house gets cluttered. Your dear Yenta loves a clean, zen feeling to her home. With this in mind, Retirement Yenta would like to recommend you hire an organizational specialist on a regular basis to make sure you keep things properly placed, and free of clutter. This little Yenta LOVES her specialist, Dalis Winter, when she is around, the Yenta’s home is super zen and neat. When Dalis is away, things tend to stay better organized than LBD (Life Before Dalis), but after a while…this Yenta’s family can get a little sloppy. So, dear Readers, Retirement Yenta recommends regular rounds of organization. It will keep your life relaxed, and ready for retirement.
Tip #260: Shop Your Closet…AGAIN!
Happy New Year, dear Readers! 2011 is almost behind us and it is time to start afresh. It is once again time to go into your closets and re-evaluate your wardrobe. Your dear Yenta knows how things can get pushed to the back of your closet and go unnoticed…it happens to her all the time. So, this little Yenta likes to regularly go into her closet, pull out all of her fabulous clothes and re-evaluate them.
Ask yourself:
- Has it been worn in the last year?
- Is it still stylish and hip? (Your dear Yenta always recommends the classics…they NEVER go out of style!)
- Does it still fit?
- Has it been worn to the point that it is threadbare?
Answer yourself honestly and brutally. If it doesn’t fit (OY, these holidays can pack on a pound or two!), or if it is worn out and can’t be repaired, or you haven’t worn it in a while…DONATE IT (or toss it) NOW! ‘Tis the season for a tax exempt donation…and a great time to start with a clean, zen closet that invites you inside and doesn’t make you want to run screaming from the teetering, possible avalanche of clothes you may have accumulated over the past few months of value shopping.
Your dear Yenta knows she has given this tip before (see tips 102, 118, 170, and 237), but the closet shopping/downsizing process is ongoing. Retirement Yenta says: Never give up, never surrender, fight the good fight…and your closets will never become a source of plight.
Tip #259: Go Shopping!
Oh dear Readers, ’tis the season to go shopping…fa la la la la, and all that jazz. Retirement Yenta loves the holidays…and she especially loves saving a buck…and this is just the time of year to do that! The season has been surprisingly warm in the city of citys, New York City…and that means outerwear sales are down. While that might not be such a great thing for the retail industry…it’s an AMAZING thing for the pockets of this bargin-minded, magenta Yenta. Your resourceful, reduced-rate-loving, purveyor-of-price-conscious pointers wants you to run out to the stores and shop, shop, shop, since the prices have dropped!
Tip #258: Give Yourself a Holiday Gift
Retirement Yenta is all about giving AND receiving. She loves a good gift…especially one given to herself! Today, dear Readers, this little Yenta has an idea for the best of holiday gifts. Give yourself the gift of knowing you don’t have colon cancer. That’s right, your dear Yenta has been getting things checked out…that regular check up can be noooo fun, unless you think of it as a gift to yourself…just to be sure your health is in tact. As we approach a more, erm, mature age, it is always wise to get those little things checked out on a regular basis, so if something isn’t quite right one can “nip it in the bud” before the problem blossoms into a full blown problem. Retirement Yenta says: Give yourself a holiday gift and get your health completely checked out. It’s simple, it’s easy, and you can live without a doubt.



