Why do organizing systems work great for some people and don't work at all for other people? There's nothing more frustrating for a naturally disorganized person than to implement a "perfect" system exactly as prescribed, only to have it fail. Believe me, I know. Every time I failed at another "tried and true" organizing system, I had less …
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Decluttering A VERY SCARY Drawer
I decluttered my junk drawer. What's that?? You just recently read (or re-read) a post when I did that before?? Back in 2010??? Welcome to (my) reality. Decluttered spaces don't stay decluttered forever. I had done some minor re-decluttering of this drawer over the years, but lately I'd been avoiding it. There were a few things I would …
Decluttering Your Scariest Space
I am giddy to get to share this free Tackle Your Scariest Space Challenge with you! The team at Ultimate Bundles contacted me a little over a month ago to ask if I would be willing to create a challenge with a workbook and a professionally produced video to help people declutter. They wanted to use it to build some buzz before the Ultimate …
Decluttering When (I’m Confident) His Stuff is the Problem
You know the worst kind of clutter? The piles in my house that are actually other people’s stuff. Not that I don’t have my own clutter. I do. I totally do. But for some reason, my own clutter doesn’t get on my nerves nearly as much as other people’s clutter gets on my nerves. First of all, I can usually recognize the reason/excuse for …
Room to Move – Room to Live
Want to know why this photo makes me happy? These things do not belong in there. And yet . . . they fit. Life happened and we needed new floors. Getting new floors meant moving my china cabinet. Moving my china cabinet meant getting my china out of it. Last summer, I was leaving the country at the time when the first …
A Decluttering Story – When I Have to Do This Before I Can Do That
The “I have to do this before I can do that” decluttering frustration is real. This frustration used to make me question the point of even trying to declutter. Trying to clean up my house felt so complicated. My five step decluttering process helps me break through decluttering paralysis. Today, I’m sharing what the decluttering process …
Cleaning up the Craft Room – A Reader’s Story
I loved this recent story shared by Andrea over on my Facebook page: I have a craft room where clean up has been neglected for a couple years, and where throwing "it" in became necessary. Surely I needed an elaborate plan and back up helpers to ever see carpet in there again. What Normal Friend could I call so I could figure out how to …
Why (and How) I Don’t Use Emotions to Declutter
I’ll start by explaining why I don’t use emotions as part of my decluttering process. I can’t use emotions to declutter because I’m emotional. I’d keep everything. Every baby sock, every book, every bottle of expired pain reliever. No matter if the baby sock was already too small when my bigfoot kid came out of the womb. That’s exactly …
Out of House, Out of Mind
It's decluttering season, so I'm decluttering. Which has me thinking about decluttering. As someone who has arrived at a bizarre place in life where I make a living thinking about decluttering, I think about it a LOT. A whole lot. Recently, I've been thinking about some brain benefits of decluttering. I'm not talking about major …
