Unearth Treasures in Your Clutter!
Unearth Treasures in Your Clutter! Ready for a reframe? What if I told you that it’s time for a different approach to your clutter? One that makes the organizing process feel a bit less like [...]
Discover the Power of Saying ‘No’ this Holiday Season
This week, I got a call from an old friend whom I haven’t talked to in forever. They asked me to come to their annual holiday party and without even a thought, I blurted out [...]
Organizing and Decluttering Your Living Room
What kind of activities do you do in your living room? Or better yet, what would you love to be doing there instead? The living room is our room of the month in the Chaos [...]
How Clutter Builds Connection with Others
As we approach Halloween and the Day of the Dead, it's the perfect time to explore our emotional connection to the physical items (and memories) of those who have passed. How Clutter Builds Connection with [...]
What Are You Taking During the Zombie Apocalypse?
Imagine that the zombies have officially come. Yes, all those zombie shows you've been watching have prepared you for this moment. It's time to head out — what do you take with you? I love [...]
Overwhelmed by Clutter? You Might Have a Monster in Your Closet
Overwhelmed by Clutter? I’ve been a professional organizer for 20+ years, and in that time, I’ve developed a couple of fears. No, it’s not the spiders in your attic or the slightly creepy porcelain dolls [...]
Intention is Everything
I recently contributed to a Redfin Blog called The Ultimate Room-By-Room Decluttering Checklist. I shared that the secret to whole home organizing success is something unexpected… Organizing success isn’t fueled by what we do [...]
My Favorite Organizing Tools
You’re working on an organizing project when all of a sudden you get derailed. Not because you don’t know what to do. Or because you’re overwhelmed. And not even because you’ve got a bad [...]
Is your clutter talking to you?
At 5am this morning, my Dad drove me to the airport. (Yep...he totally wins Dad of the year for that one!) Coffee in hand, braving the empty streets of Tucson, he asked why I'm [...]
Is This Life-Changer Buried in Your Clutter?
Is This Life-Changer Buried in Your Clutter? Can a single object change the course of your life? Not make you happy for the day or the week but really, truly change your life forever. [...]
