This week's mailbag is an amazing story from Mary in North Carolina. She writes,

Hi Lisa, you have no idea how much the Organized 365 podcast has helped me to get organized and has really saved my sanity in the

last eight months.

Back in September 2017 my husband lost his job.

We were just barely scraping by at the time and by November, December there were no new job prospects and we had to downsize from our 1,300 square foot 3 bedroom house to an 800 square foot duplex.

This move was the easiest move we have ever done because we were mostly organized.

By the end, I still knew where everything was, knew what was going to storage, which wasn't much, And what needed to come with us?

The one question that my family kept asking me during the move

was, where is all your paper?

Well, I was very proud to show them my Sunday basket

and the one other drawer where we had paper.

There was no other paper in the house.

Fast forward to February this year, our duplex caught fire in our outside attached laundry

room. My family got out safe,

but we lost nearly all our physical possessions

and our two chihuahuas.

Then not even eight hours later,

my mother-in-law passed away suddenly and unexpectedly.

We were lost. We have been piecing our life

back together, living with my mother, and trying to figure out our next steps. My Sunday

basket was on my kitchen table right inside the back door, so needless to say it perished in the fire, and there were very few pages left that were readable.

Nothing important.

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