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 [...]
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 [...]
A Not So Smart Hiding Spot
Sarah starts to laugh and says “I feel like I’m watching an episode of Celebrities Are People Too”. I’m sitting on the floor of my dining room scouring my buffet for unexpected places I [...]
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. [...]
This is Why Your Clutter Won’t Go Away
This is Why Your Clutter Won't Go Away I was under the covers, scrolling Instagram this morning, when I came across a quote by UPenn Positive Psych Instructor Cory Muscara. He said: “Some of [...]
What if they’re wrong about your clutter?
Clutter is a delayed decision, right? Not so much! Well, maybe sometimes it is. But definitely not all the time. I know that the concept of “delayed decisions” is one of the main clutter [...]
