Yesterday we launched a sweepstakes on the new Rubbermaid.com website. It's called the 'Rubbermaid Reviews & Ratings Sweepstakes'. Last year around this time we did a similar sweepstakes and the prize package included some coolers, Blue Ice, and some other tailgating type products.
This year the prize package is a Pantry and Kitchen Organization Pack which includes a No-Slide Silverware Caddy, Wrap and Bag Caddy, and Over the Door Organizer.
This sweepstakes will run from 9/30/2009 through 10/29/2009. For every product review or Tips & Solutions review you write you'll get one entry into the sweepstakes.
Evernote recently contacted us at Rubbermaid about working on an organizational project. In case you didn't know, Rubbermaid is great for organizing your stuff and Evernote is great at organizing information electronically so you don't forget anything. So could we combine these two? Evernote decided to try! They organized their storage closet and it turned out great! Read about the four steps they used to organize with Rubbermaid and Evernote products:
Go read the post!!! It has some great advice about remembering what you put where...and you MIGHT be able to win some Rubbermaid storage containers. I mean MAYBE, POSSIBLY...we're TOTALLY giving away some containers so you can try the four steps yourself :)
Yesterday we launched www.EasyFindLids.com, a brand new Rubbermaid website. We created this site for people to share stories about their food storage organization stories. We're hoping you will submit stories about your success and challenges organizing your food storage containers.
In addition to sharing your story on www.EasyFindLids.com we've incorporated a feature so you can also post your story to Facebook. Our hope is if you have a challenge you can share it with your friends and they can help you with your problem. This is our version of 'Group Therapy' :)
And if your friends can't help you get organized, maybe we can. Once a week we are going to randomly pick 5 winners to receive a 20 piece set of Rubbermaid Easy Find Lid food storage containers. Even better, at the end of October we're going to pick one winner to receive $500 in Rubbermaid product.
With that said, share your story. If you have a challenge, maybe a friend can help you out. If you've already conquered your food storage container problems, sharing your story will help someone else out.
About two weeks ago, I did a blog post about Slide & Stack baskets and how many versatile ways they could be used to help organize throughout the house. Similarly, I thought I would share how the Under Shelf Basket works in many areas in my house.
The Under Shelf Basket clamps down to wooden or solid surface shelves and allows you to take advantage of “dead space”.
Here are four ways I have used them:
Please post any creative ideas you can think of beyond what I have listed by Tuesday, May 26th at 1pm EST for the Under Shelf Baskets.Shannon who works on the Kitchen Products team will judge the best creative idea and we'll send the winner a case of Slide Out Baskets to get organized!
Wow, it was quite a week last week! Jim and I traveled to NAPO EXPO down in Orlando, Florida. For those of you who are not familiar with NAPO, NAPO is an acronym for the National Association of Professional Organizers. NAPO is an amazing group of people who help people get their homes, offices and lives organized. We really enjoyed getting to know many of them!
Below is my "Top 10 list" from the show:
10. Weather / location - we were lucky to have such beautiful weather. I spent the previous week in Chicago in the snow, so it was a delight to have sunny skies to make it easy to fly in & out as well as get around in Orlando
9. Participant energy level - I have never been to a trade show quite like this one. Everyone was a delight to talk to, and they were genuinely excited to learn about the new organizational tools available to them to help their clients.
8. Sue DeRoos's session where one of her favorite things was Rubbermaid Premier - we love the recommendation! We were happy many of the organizers were big fans of the Easy Find Lid system products.
7. Giving away a $500 product shopping spree - Congrats Susanne Starr at HOUSE-SPOUSE for winning :) We look forward to helping you pick out what products you would like later this week.
6. Dinner with Carson Tate, our local NAPO rockstar, was awesome! It was certainly WOW service.
5. Entreprenurial Spirit - I was amazed at the variety of new inventions that small companies had on display. A few of my favorites: --Priceless Legacy - organizes memories of aging family members into a beautiful photo storybook --Recipe Relish - excellent storage for recipes --Collectify - software to help inventory (given to me ironically b/c my house had a small electrical fire when i was in Orlando, so the VP of Sales gave me a FREE copy to try)
4. Scott Roewer and Kim Oser did live interviews from our booth, great to have them visit!
3. Jim had the brilliant idea of Tweeting live from the booth - it was pretty cool to be able to have our favorite Tweeple send messages from our account.
2. Expert advice - a special thanks to Julie Bestry @proforganizer for taking us under her wing and letting us know the ins-and-outs of the show, since it was a first time for us.
1. Meeting our Twitter friends at the Tweet Up - As a new Tweeter, it was really cool to meet the folks face-to-face at the Tweetup we have been talking to for a few months. Thanks to Scott @declutteryou for organizing.
If you remember, back in January we held the Get Organized contest. There have been multiple posts (see links below) and many people have commented on the great results.
While we were doing the garage makeover we brought in a film crew to document the process (I guess my Flip video camera wasn't considered high enough quality). Just this morning I received the final video file. I hope you enjoy.
Wow! Last Thursday and Friday were two very busy days. If you remember, back in January we ran a promotion called the Get Organized contest. To enter you had to upload a photo from a room of your home that needed an organization makeover. We picked a winner at the end of January and last Thursday and Friday we did the makeover.
On Thursday my co-worker Lauren and I, along with professional organizer Carson Tate, CPO®, traveled to Aimee's home (Aimee was the winner) to begin the project.
Just
some of the crew (left to right): Sandy the stylist, Lauren from
Rubbermaid, Aimee the winner, Carson Tate the CPO® and Elliot the
director.
The first order of business was for Carson and Aimee to talk so Carson could understand how the garage was used, what pain points currently existed along with what a successful project would look like. This was where Carson and Aimee discussed the 'zones' of the garage and how everything would be put back once we were done sorting and purging. Thanks to Aimee this was fairly easy because she already had a good grasp of what needed to be done.
Carson and Aimee sort through the contents of her garage.
The next task to occur was the sorting and purging. To sort we put three large colored tarps on the driveway. Each tarp was marked for different types of items. One for items Aimee wanted to keep, one for trash and one for donations. Using these tarps made it very easy to do the high-level sorting / purging.
We moved everything out of the garage onto tarps.
Once the 'keep' items had been identified the next steps was to dive into each and every box and complete a sort/purge at a micro-level. Carson mentioned time and time again that Aimee was great at this step. She was able to quickly identify the items that needed to stay and didn't have a hard time getting rid of clutter she didn't need to keep anymore.
During the sorting and purging process Lauren and I, along with Elliot from Limerick Studios, dove into the installation of the Rubbermaid FastTrack garage organization system. As usual the installation was very simple. Measure and mark the walls for the rail, level & mark the rails, install a few screws and you're done. We installed all of the rails, which were numerous, in just a few hours. Oh... did I mention Elliot and his crew had to film a video during this time too. In addition to the FastTrack rails, hooks and cabinets Aimee also got a couple steel-reinforced resin shelves, a corner tool caddy, a million totes and an outdoor shed.
Carson divided the garage into 'zones'. This was the kid zone.
After the installation was complete, all the sorting and purging was done, and we ate lunch (tortilla wraps and iced tea) we began the process of putting everything back into the garage. Under the direction of Carson the entire crew helped place all the 'keep' items back into their appropriate 'zone'. This was a very quick process as Aimee and Carson had previously identified the 'zones' and what went into these areas.
This was the tools & hardware zone
When all was said and done Aimee and family were super happy. The project was a great success and we are all very proud. (NOTE: I'll post the final video once we have the edit back)
Aimee and family were very happy with the final project. We were all a little tired.
Just the other day I added a second 2-cup Produce Saver to my existing set of three. The addition of this little item has made me very happy. Since I use lots of berries I needed a second small container so I could put all my small berries in them. So decided to do a little sweepstakes and give away a set of Rubbermaid Produce Saver food storage containers which contains 4 food storage containers. Perfect for any kitchen.
To enter all you need to do leave a comment in this blog post. I'll take entries all the way through March 2nd, 2009 at noon Eastern. Then I'll randomly select a winner. Be sure to leave you email address in the email field so I can get in contact with you (you're email will not be displayed).
Welcome to 2009! As you may or may not know, January in National Get Organized Month. To support this event Rubbermaid has put together an Organization Makeover promotion. Below are some of the details.
To enter, visit our website, select a room in your home that’s most in need of organization (garage, closet, kitchen or other). Take a photo of the room and upload the image to our website. Include a short story or description of the challenges you face in getting the room in order.
From all the entries submitted, one hundred will be randomly selected from all the entries for judging (to be done by Rubbermaid and Carson Tate), which will be based on the judging criteria listed on our website.
Recently I was talking to Deb Lee, a professional organizer, about Rubbermaid and the Newell Rubbermaid brands. She was not aware that Dymo and Endicia were also part of the Newell Rubbermaid family of brands. That sparked an idea.
Why not do a quick scavenger hunt / sweepstakes related to the Newell Rubbermaid brands and some of our online blogs and websites.
So here's the challenge. Read the questions below and provide correct answers using the comments feature of the blog. When submitting your answers/comments, please be sure to include your email address (It will only be used to contact the winner).
Of the people who submit all the correct answers I will randomly draw a winner. The winner can choose between (1) one Easy Find Lids 24 piece set OR (2) Rubbermaid Premier 12 piece sets. All answers must be received by 4:00pm Eastern on Friday November 21, 2008.
QUESTIONS
List 8 Newell Rubbermaid brands: Visit www.newellco.com to see the list.
What Newell Rubbermaid brand powers Dymo Stamps®? Endicia
What is the web address for the Sharpie® and Graco® blogs? blog.sharpie.com & blog.gracobaby.com
What is the name of the Rubbermaid Twitter account? @rubbermaid
When I did my Garage Makeover, how many posts were in the series? 5
NOTE: As I receive the answers/comments. I will review them and edit the comment to only show if the answers were correct or not. I wouldn't want to post all the answers for people to see :)
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