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 … [Read more...]
Decluttering
Decluttering is the foundation to transforming your home. But don't be afraid! We can start small.
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
The Worst Decluttering Strategy Ever
Today, I’m sharing what is (in my personal-turned-professional opinion) the absolute worst decluttering strategy ever. For me. Don’t separate those two things. The thing about it being the absolute worst, and the part about it being the worst for me. I finally started making real, lasting, bigtime decluttering progress when I stopped … [Read more...]
Why I Don’t Host Decluttering Challenges
"Decluttering Challenges" are all the rage at this time of year. I get it. Bloggers know that this is the time when organizing-related website traffic surges. People are ready to declutter. The post-Christmas mess combines with time off work and excitement about changes in a new year, and decluttering fever hits. A decluttering challenge … [Read more...]
How to Stop Cluttering (or Shopping) When You’re Overwhelmed by All the Stuff
This is going to seem like a stretch for a moment, but I promise to give you a surefire way to stop shopping, even if it’s a habit, when you’re ready to declutter because all the stuff in your home overwhelms you. To get there, though, I need to talk about soy sauce. As a young child, I loved soy sauce. I wanted to eat soy sauce on … [Read more...]
Help for the Person Who (Supposedly) Can’t Be Helped
One of the saddest stories I've heard in my role as Person Who Talks About Decluttering On The Internet was told to me by a life-long friend. I was about two years into my blogging journey, and she was one of the few people in my real life who knew I was telling my deslobification story to the world as Nony (short for aNONYmous). She shares … [Read more...]
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