I'm decluttering. What? You thought I was DONE decluttering just because I wrote a book about it? Har-dee-har-har-har. Anyway, that picture up there is why I have absolutely no problem with someone else making money from my stuff. (Oof. Grunt. Ehhhh. OK. I just climbed up on my soapbox. Be ready for a little preachin'.) I've … [Read more...]
Decluttering
Decluttering is the foundation to transforming your home. But don't be afraid! We can start small.
The Master Bedroom Saga: Part 10
Oh my word. It's JANUARY of 2013, and I still haven't finished posting the Master Bedroom Saga???? Well, this is the next-to-the-last post in this series. It's the end of the video footage I shot while actually doing the project, and I put it into two different videos. (If you're reading by email, click on the title of the post to get … [Read more...]
Creative Christmas Decluttering
I have to admit that I stole this idea. 7 years ago, a friend gave a framed and signed photo of himself at a gag gift party. I/we've now done that (or something similar) at least four times. Don't worry, we try not to repeat with the same group in order to maximize hilariousness. This year, I've used four of my hard-to-declutter … [Read more...]
Decluttering an OLD T-shirt (12 Days of Decluttering)
Whew. This has been (as expected) one crazy week. But that still-mostly-empty box keeps staring at me, so I'm trying to add to it a little at a time. Today, I threw in an old t-shirt. A very old t-shirt. A t-shirt that is half-of-three-decades old. Which, somehow . . . sounds more dramatic in my mind right now than 15. I bought … [Read more...]
Twelve Days of Decluttering
How in the world did December already happen? The past two weeks have been crazy around here, and the next few promise to be pretty wild as well. Our church's big Christmas production (which I wrote and am directing) starts Friday night, so blogging will likely take a backburner to life. I wasn't going to worry too much about that, … [Read more...]
The Master Bedroom Saga: Hubby Declutters (Part 9)
This is part nine of what seems to be an endless saga. In this part, I'm sharing Hubby's role in this process. I'm often asked how to motivate a husband to declutter. While I can't let myself worry about that too much, I have seen my own husband become more and more willing to declutter over the past three years. This one insanely-focused … [Read more...]
Permission to Throw it Away
No. I'm not talking about getting permission from my child to throw her stuff away. I'm talking about giving myself permission. Permission to finally throw away these once-loved-but-no-longer-used items. Books are nice. They rarely feel like clutter, and are so easily donated. Toys with lots-of-teeny-tiny-parts? They're not nice. … [Read more...]
“It’s Never That Simple” – Kitchen Remodeling Cleanup
I titled this post: "It's Never That Simple." Which is a lie. "It" (whatever that means) often is that simple. But projects like this one are the ones that stick in my head and justify my procrastination on the ba-jillions of projects that ARE that simple. Earlier this week, a guy came by to cut out our old stove so our new Maytag stove … [Read more...]
The Master Bedroom Saga: Part Seven – Rearranging Furniture
It's been almost two months now since I did this big, huge, scary project. And as I edit video and try to match it up with what I wrote in my journal, it doesn't always jive perfectly. In my journal at this point, I wrote mostly about the psychological transformations Hubby and I went through just enjoying the emptiness. We had never … [Read more...]
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