Decluttering

Last April, we got a new puppy. She's almost perfect. (Other than the occasional tinkle in the house.) She has claimed about four of my daughter's (400) stuffed animals as her own. We get such joy out of watching her play with her toys. She shakes them and throws them across the room to play fetch with herself. She obsesses over one for a … [Read more...]

Oh, how I struggle with the Automatic Put Back. Do you? Oh. You have no idea what I'm talking about? Well, it's the thing that happens when I pull something out of a cabinet/drawer/closet and think "Oh, we can't use this because it's broken/ugly/I-just-don't-like-it." Those thoughts go through my head. My response? Put it right back … [Read more...]

Oh, how I wish I'd run out of things to write about around here . . . . No such luck. I'm sure it started with one little thing thrown into the laundry room just before the doorbell was supposed to ring. Then another thing and one more. And then, since it was a "junk spot" anyway, other random things that didn't have a home got dumped … [Read more...]

I've talked about paper clutter and how I have greatly reduced it. Whenever it comes up, though, people ask about email. Like I did in that post, let me be clear that I'm no Email Guru. At all. I'm the one who doesn't even mind the red numbers on her iPhone, remember? But I have GREATLY reduced the number of emails in my inbox over the … [Read more...]

When I decluttered that back corner of our gameroom recently, I discovered a lot of things in the pile were photos or wallhangings or signs that I knew I wanted to keep but hadn't found a place for yet. So I had to wrestle with myself a little/lot. Do I find a corner somewhere else to stash these things until I have time to decide … [Read more...]

It's official. I have moved past the point where my gut wrenches at the thought of giving up something so USEFUL!! Because packing and shipping was once my life when I sold on eBay all the time, I know what an awesome feeling it is to already have weightless, cushioney space takers in your cabinet when you need to ship an oddly shaped, … [Read more...]

I've already told you how I was in a funk on Saturday. A what-is-the-POINT kind of funk. Unfortunately, I know just how to cure those kinds of funks. Declutter. So I did. I decided I was FINALLY going to FINISH the HUGE project in my gameroom. The one I'd been pretending wasn't noticable because of the screen in front of it. I … [Read more...]

Dear Friend, It's not you. It's me. Fine. It IS you. Here's the thing. We've been together for years. They were good years. Really. It's not that I'm ungrateful. But things have changed. I've changed. You've changed. Part of that is just how life goes. Our relationship, naturally, meant stretching and tugging . . . but over time all … [Read more...]