I have a phobia of organizing products. It was a late-onset phobia that developed in my mid-thirties. Right around the same time that my delusions that I would become organized once I became a true grown-up started to reveal themselves as . . . delusions. Y'know. Since I was in my mid-thirties and could no longer deny that I was a grown … [Read more...]
Master Bedroom Saga: Part Three (Nony Gets Discouraged)
It's time for part three of the Master Bedroom Saga. In the journal, part three really started on the first day. After I'd come up with a plan and finished with the easy stuff. After the easy stuff comes the hard stuff. Blech. Here's what I wrote in my journal while in the midst of this horrible, terrible, very bad decluttering … [Read more...]
The ONE Difference Between This and All the Other Times I’ve Tried to Come Clean
I've been speaking more and more and am consistently amazed that the VAST majority of looks on the faces out in the audience are ones of understanding. Not you-poor-thing understanding. I-struggle-with-the-same-thing understanding. Being limited to a single hour of verbal blabbing instead of the endless opportunity to self-analyze here on … [Read more...]
Easy Oven Fries Recipe and a Chicago Cutlery Giveaway!
I shared last month that I've been selected as an ambassador for Chicago Cutlery knives. Truly, these knives have been SO MUCH FUN to use over the past month. The cutting and chopping and slicing and dicing around here rose to a fevered pitch as we did our all-veggies-for-two-looonnnng-weeks diet, and these knives were a huge help. The … [Read more...]
Utilizing Wall Storage in the Garage: Pegboards
My Room-by-Room blogging friends and I are writing about garages and storage spaces today. When the time came that I could no longer put off writing this post (about one of my home's most irritating spaces), I donned my dust mask and headed into the garage. Imagine my delight when I realized that I could easily share the best, most useful, … [Read more...]
Master Bedroom Saga: Part Two (Decluttering a Bedroom)
Welcome back to my Master Bedroom Saga! Today I'm sharing Part Two: The Easy Stuff. Let me explain. Due to the fact that I've had to do it waaaayyyy more than the average person, I consider myself a decluttering expert. Clutter prevention? I'm still working on that one. But … [Read more...]
How to Declutter Fast: Five Areas You Can Purge in a Hurry
Do you ever get the itch to declutter? Or maybe it's the shakes. I usually get this icky feeling right after I've been frantically searching for something that should have been easily found. I feel a sudden desperation to declutter. To declutter FAST. As if my life (more likely my sanity) depends on it. In these … [Read more...]
Taking Advantage of Every Opportunity to Declutter
We had a fun day today. My second son turned nine and Grammy came down for his birthday dinner. As she left tonight, she loaded up her van . . . with stuff from my house. Stuff like: A sweet (but not really my style) framed picture that I'd borrowed for several years because I needed to fill a space. A baker's rack I've run into about … [Read more...]
Waiting Until I NEED to Do It
I thought about titling this post: How to Separate the Pages of a Book that Have Been Stuck Together with Syrup for More than a Year. But I didn't. I was so excited to start back to BSF today. BSF stands for Bible Study Fellowship and it's an intense (and wonderful) study that I've been in for four years now. The day went well … [Read more...]
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