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Patty Clair returned to the studio to help simplify your life! Today, she shared easy tips and products to organizing your filing systems.

Some people like to organize files alphabetically, others chronologically. “It’s how you best recall the stuff you put in there,” Rosenthal says, that will guarantee your tidying-up success.