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Establishing Boundaries . . . Confining the Clutter . . . Whatever You Want to Call It

May 17, 2010 By Dana White | 37 Comments

At a mom's group meeting several years ago I heard a speaker on home organization say that you should make a rule to remove one old thing every time you bring something new into your home. Everyone else nodded knowingly. I had absolutely no concept what she was talking about. I've finally figured out why I didn't get it. In my house at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: a place for everything, decluttering, kitchen, organization | 37 Comments

Even if I Find A Place For Everything . . . .

April 2, 2010 By Dana White | 15 Comments

It's my goal for 2010 to find a place for everything. No more frantic searching for lost items, no more sinking feeling when I realize that I need something that is probably buried in one of many piles of random stuff. No more piles of random stuff.   But of course, being only March, I'm not there yet. Better, but not there. For … [Read more...]

Filed Under: a place for everything, duh, failures | 15 Comments

The Wonderbra Avalanche

March 29, 2010 By Dana White | 12 Comments

No, not an avalanche of Wonderbras. In this metaphor, the Wonderbra is not the snow, it is the idiot who whistles or claps or whatever and causes the avalanche. Actually, it is probably the whistle itself . . . and I am the idiot. Last week was a bit crazy, but I was holding on. I did enough of my daily tasks to keep things sane, and did … [Read more...]

Filed Under: a place for everything, failures, master bedroom, Out of the routine | 12 Comments

Decisions, Decisions

February 16, 2010 By Dana White | 3 Comments

First of all, I think my camera really is dying. But even out of focus, you get the picture. I'm really starting to resent this surface. This is the surface right inside the door we come in all the time. I've found pretty good solutions for the shoes and coats everywhere, but this dresser just attracts clutter. Things get dumped here on the way … [Read more...]

Filed Under: a place for everything, decluttering, My Survival Techniques | 3 Comments

Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

January 29, 2010 By Dana White | 19 Comments

Paper plates used to be a must-have item in our house. Hubby would get nervous when we ran out. If he ever found what looked like it might be a grocery list lying around, he would jot down "paper plates, please." They were necessary for two reasons. First was as a last resort. When every single plate in the house was dirty and piled in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: a place for everything, decluttering, duh, kitchen, progress Tagged With: frugal friday | 19 Comments

Painful Drawer Clean-out

January 26, 2010 By Dana White | 19 Comments

Why painful, you ask? I cleaned out four, yes FOUR, kitchen drawers last night and today, and EVERY SINGLE one of them had tacks spilled in them. LOTS of tacks. Really? Is this some cruel joke I play on myself while sleepwalking? I have quite a few pictures I could show you. About 10 in fact. But I'm only going to show three since … [Read more...]

Filed Under: a place for everything, decluttering, diy day, organization, tackle it Tuesday | 19 Comments

Bringing Beauty Out of Hiding

January 14, 2010 By Dana White | 27 Comments

I started doing some random decluttering this morning, and ended up very happy with big results. I began by moving some glass goblets that I had purchased at the Dollar Tree a while back because I "didn't have any nice glasses to use with my formal china." I learned this three Thanksgivings ago when we used our formal china for the first and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: a place for everything, decluttering, duh, progress | 27 Comments

Finding Places . . . . for EVERYthing?

January 12, 2010 By Dana White | 6 Comments

  Did I really say I would find a place for EVERYthing? In my house, everything is a lot of stuff. I guess that's the point. Thanks to my daily to-do list, I've been going through different hiding spots. Spots which at one point I thought were good places for those totally-random-items that don't have any other place to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: a place for everything, decluttering, goals, progress | 6 Comments

Being Realistic or Continuing the Problem?

January 2, 2010 By Dana White | 9 Comments

I think that at this exact moment in time, all of my dishtowels and dishcloths are clean. A good thing, right? Hmmm. I don't know how to answer that exactly, because when they're all clean, the cute little basket where they're supposed to go . . . overflows and looks awful. I have a lot of them. And yet, somehow, there are many, many … [Read more...]

Filed Under: a place for everything, decluttering, figuring myself out, goals | 9 Comments

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