Deb Lee contacted me yesterday, wondering why I had not included her post in the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival for March. When I checked to see whether I’d received it, I discovered that somehow I’d omitted all of the tax-related posts! I sincerely apologize for my oversight, but as they say, better late than never!

I’m still trying to figure out how this happened. Do you think I have a subconscious fear of dealing with taxes?

I actually received four submissions on the topic of financial organizing specific to taxes:

• Master Cruz: Two Things Certain in Life…
• Stephanie LH Calahan: Consider Donations in Your Tax Planning
• Deb Lee: The Taxman Cometh
• Carmen Coker: Get Organized: Tax Prep

On the upside, my delay in sharing these gave me a chance to include one more post which wasn’t yet available when the first part of this month’s Professional Organizers Blog Carnival was published!

In regards to budgeting, Audrey Cupo explained why It’s More Important Than Ever To Budget Your Money.

Don’t forget that the topic for April’s Blog Carnival is green organizing.

By the way, if I choose not to include a post you submit for any reason, I will email you to let you know, so please don’t hesitate to follow up with me like Deb did if I ever make this mistake again!

Please visit Your Organizing Business to read and comment on Professional Organizers Blog Carnival for March 2010, Part 2: Taxes.

Welcome to this month’s edition of the Professional Organizers Blog Carnival! We have a lot of new people participating this month, so I’d like to welcome everyone and encourage you to read and comment on your colleagues’ posts. I’m sure you’ll find it to be a fun way to get to know one another while picking up some new ideas for your clients, or even for yourself!

When I chose this month’s topic of Financial Organizing, I was a bit concerned that we might have a whole bunch of similar posts, so I was really pleased to see the wide range of submissions that came in!

We have:

Budgeting tips from Joan Kosmachuk in Get Organized for the Holidays – Make a Spending Budget

Money management tips from Ellen Delap in Getting Organized with Your Money and Finances and Ramona Creel in Ten Steps To Financial Freedom. Ramona says,

Financial independence is well within our grasp — we just have to make a few fundamental shifts in the way we choose between instant gratification and future security.

Credit card tips in Playing Your Cards Right: How The CARD Act Helps Organize Your Finances from Julie Bestry, who says,

A major key to getting and keeping your finances in order is understanding the credit and debt infrastructure–the rules that determine how much interest you’re charged and the fees you are assessed. As they say, forewarned is forearmed!

Tips for filing financial paperwork from Michelle Deo in Files & Taxes, Margarita Ibbott in Homebox – One Spot Document Holder and Filing System, and Elaine Shannon in How to organize your Finances

Financial document retention tips from Angie Weid in Do I Really Need My Last 5 Years of Electric Bills?

And last but not least, some spectacular piggy banks for storing your change from Jeri Dansky, the product-finding organizer, in Piggy Banks That Aren’t Pigs: A Glyptodon, A Goat, and More.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this month’s Professional Organizers Blog Carnival!

In honor of Earth Day, the theme for April will be green organizing, and you are welcome to submit your post at any time.

For those of you who like to plan ahead, the topic for May will be organizing tips for busy moms, but no submissions will be accepted for May’s Carnival until after April 10^th.

If you’d like to suggest a topic for a future Professional Organizers Blog Carnival, please feel free to leave a comment or to contact me directly.

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