After yesterday's Beyond Depressing Decluttering Post, I'm happy to share this one. Last night, as we watched our favorite family show (Shark Tank), my 8yo got the decluttering itch. She started out looking through our video stash "just to see what we had." Soon, she was sorting and stacking and making a Donate Pile of the ones we obviously … [Read more...]

Ouch. We finally did it. My husband has been mentioning this for a while, but I'd successfully pretended I didn't hear him. At some point in the past ten years, we had moths. His suits were ruined. Every single one of them. He wears a dress shirt and tie every day to work, but never a full-on suit. For the random times he needed … [Read more...]

Sometimes, I should just declutter instead of going to the store. I find all sorts of useful stuff. We'd been lamenting the lack of "facial tissues" in our house lately, and I'd been MEANING to order more on Amazon. Really, my normally amazingly-understanding Hubby had been more than a little irritated about using T.P. to blow his nose. But … [Read more...]

I love having that chair next to my bed. It's a little big for the space, but it's such a comfortable place to plop down and rest. What? You don't see a chair? Right. I guess that's a problem. Having a chair is great, but if it's just the base of a mountain of randomness, I don't get to enjoy it much at all. While my master bedroom is … [Read more...]

You know one of my big strategies is to NOT organize, just declutter. It makes my life easier, helps me get started, and has made a huge difference in our home. Really, it was a game changer. It also keeps me from buying a bunch of containers I may never use. Not that I never use containers. But when I do, it generally works like … [Read more...]

I'm not a big fan of déjà vu. It's a creepy feeling. Feeling like something happened before but knowing it probably didn't. And then there are times when things happen that I KNOW have happened before. That's not a creepy feeling. It's a mind-exploding, grumpiness-inducing, self-blaming feeling. Like these black pants. I … [Read more...]