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Embrace Your Inner Slob

We spend a lot of time on AT talking about the virtues of keeping a clean house. For some, this comes naturally, for others it's a struggle. Jump below to embrace your inner slob:...

Creating Extra Storage vs. Getting Rid of Stuff

It seems life around the house is a constant balancing act between deciding to limit how much comes into the house (in addition to thinning out what's here) and deciding on a piece of furniture that c...

Apartment Therapy on Preventing Clutter

My grandmother's thriftiness is the stuff of family legend. While some of the stories seem incredible (like the time she mentioned that she switched her sneakers from one foot to the other to preve...

The Last Taboo: Tossing Books

We've been trying to clear out the books in our house; coincidentally we came across an article that asked, if you're not enjoying them, why finish the books you start. But of course! And then we st...

The Principles of Packing and Applying It To Clutter At Home

I met Gina Lazenby very recently, thanks to HomeExchange: After seeing her beautiful home online, I rushed to contact her. Of course, her place was already booked for another exchange; but I discove...

Spring Decluttering: Choose 5

Beyond throwing open the windows and getting the dirt out of the corners, Spring is a great time to lighten the load of furniture and stuff from inside your house. In the Cure, one of the first assig...

Apartment Therapy On... Being a Pack Rat

A Smead Manufacturing email that landed in our inbox yesterday reminded us of National Pack Rat Day (always on May 17th). Smead conducted a national survey which we found quite interesting......

Question: That Weird Space Above the Kitchen Cabinet
Austin

To put stuff in that space above your kitchen wall cabinets or to leave them empty. That is a question that plagues many a homeowner and apartment dweller, isn’t it? On the one hand, it’s a prime...

Best Trays For The Kitchen Or Bath

In places like the kitchen and the bathroom that get a lot of use it's just inevitable that stuff needs to be out on the counter. Whether it's olive oil, vinegar and salt and pepper shakers or your f...

Budget Luxury: Use Wrapping Paper to Line your Drawers

When the year starts winding down, we start thinking about organizing for the new year. Then mix that in with the fact that the the bf needs more space for his clothes and that means time to clear ou...

How Much Do You Keep in Storage?

Living in a place that has no closets (the only closed storage are the kitchen cabinets) I've been much more aware of how much stuff I use everyday and how much stuff gets used here and there but take...

4 Tips To Make Organizing Decisions Easier

We had the amazing opportunity to hold an organizing workshop at Cal Tech this past Friday. While we love educating the public with organizing how-to's and basics we always are amazed at what we lear...

Why We Hang Onto Stuff
And Why It's OK To Let It Go

Benita's Organized Media! This week in the Cure we're dealing with media: books, cd's, dvd's and magazines. While we're clearing it out, paring it down and organizing it in a way that works and makes...

What We Learn From Living Out Of A Suitcase

This week, we're away from home, living out of our suitcase. While we're not necessarily minimalist at home, we find that we're definitely minimal when we pack and when we travel......

Simple Key To Clearing Clutter

About five years ago I took a one day seminar on clearing out clutter. It was something that interested me at the time even though I didn't have a lot of clutter and I was really surprised by one of ...

How Having Less is Having More

Oftentimes when we think about decluttering and getting rid of things we might get scared that a) we might need that thing one day or b) our home will be an empty joyless place without all this stuff ...

Hey, Big Spender...Or Not?

Gregory's mythical Black AMEX: It's real, and it's fabulous! (Just kidding).MSN Money posted an interesting article over the weekend reflecting on our current economic crisis and how its affecting Am...

Home is Where I Am

Although Escapes Month just ended, we find Fall to be the best time to travel. Often fares are more reasonable, it's not boiling hot, and exotic destinations aren't as overrun with (other) tourists. ...

Negative Space Idea In Your Home

In your home, it's easy to fill up a bookcase, tabletop or sideboard with stuff. Just stuff. Lamps, books, bills, picture frames, more books, magazines, trays - just stuff. While these may be things ...

Phrase Organizing

A professional organizer will ask a client a handful of questions to help them part with their belongings. We realize that some items are harder to part with than others and we'd like to suggest a di...

Simple Green: Use What You've Got

Eliminate the need to recycle something, to throw it away, to find a new home for it by not buying that new thing to begin with. So often it's easy to think we need the newest latest whatever, but it...

How Long Do You Keep Fabric?

I used to go to the Jet Rag One Dollar Sale just to find great fabric that I would use someday when the time was right. Well for some of the pieces it's been almost 10 years. I wonder if I dare let ...

6 Uses for a Melamine Tray from Pier 1

Another double duty item to help get us organized: this melamine 3 part tray from Pier 1 is the perfect way to keep small things from spreading out all over the house. See 6 ideas for how to corral ...

Where's Your Biggest Clutter Spot?

There's a spot near our telephone, on top of a built-in shelf that divides our kitchen from our dining room, that's a convenient place to put down our mail, the contents of our handbag, receipts. Unf...

Organizing Tips for the Overtired and Overstressed

When our lives and minds are already overwhelmed with their own kind of clutter, decluttering and organizing our homes can seem like the ultimate impossible task. Mom of 2 Missuswayne asks how to ove...

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