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Posts tagged “clutter”

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...

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...

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...

LA Survey Which Type of Clutterer are You?

Yesterday, Laure blogged about clutterers who can't let go of stuff. Did you know that there are actually five types? Which kind are you? Survey after the jump......

LA Survey Which Type of Clutterer are You?

Yesterday, Laure blogged about clutterers who can't let go of stuff. Did you know that there are actually five types? Which kind are you? Survey after the jump......

Clutter: The But I Might Need It Syndrome

But I might need these catalogs!So we're trying to get organized this month (or at least take a stab at it, right?). Well as Flylady says, you can't organize clutter, you can only get rid of it. One...

Clutter: The But I Might Need It Syndrome

But I might need these catalogs!So we're trying to get organized this month (or at least take a stab at it, right?). Well as Flylady says, you can't organize clutter, you can only get rid of it. One...

Clutter: The But I Might Need It Syndrome

But I might need these catalogs!So we're trying to get organized this month (or at least take a stab at it, right?). Well as Flylady says, you can't organize clutter, you can only get rid of it. One...

Need Help Organizing?

We're at the beginning of Organizing and Spring Cleaning Month and want to know: Where are you most challenged when it comes to organizing? Are you in desperate need of a solution to an organizing di...

Media Fast: Cutting Down on Blog Clutter

Last week when we were talking about How To Media Fast, it seemed that more than watching TV, people are spending hours and hours everyday (even after they get home from work) on the internet. A huge...

Update On Packing Light

Before we left on our big trip, we talked about packing light for a trip and at home. We're glad to report that packing light totally paid off and has committed us even more to the idea that small is...

Update On Packing Light

Before we left on our big trip, we talked about packing light for a trip and at home. We're glad to report that packing light totally paid off and has committed us even more to the idea that small is...

Packing Light at Home and on the Road

We're getting ready for a pretty exciting trip to China and have vowed to pack lighter than ever. This has made us think about what it is we really need, in a suitcase and at home......

What's In Your Outbox?

Throughout the Cure you're encouraged to use your Outbox, a corner or box or room that you've designated to put anything that isn't fitting in, adding or working in a room. Trust us, it helps with se...

Good Quotes: On Clutter

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. --William Morris...

LA Survey: Come Clean, How Many Magazines Do You Get A Month?

Our mailman hates us. Really. We get way too many magazines. It’s a wonder we find the time to read them all, let alone blog or eat. We’re trying to cut back and read them online, but we think...

Inherited Clutter

Yes, half of this is at our house nowAs we begin the Cure, we're faced with all this stuff in our homes. Even if we've put the apartment on a diet it can still be emotionally taxing to sort through w...

Inherited Clutter

Yes, half of this is at our house nowAs we begin the Cure, we're faced with all this stuff in our homes. Even if we've put the apartment on a diet it can still be emotionally taxing to sort through w...

Putting the Apartment on a Diet

To go along with yesterday's things cluttering up the bathroom post and Gregory's post about when things start possessing you, we were reminded that if we feel overwhelmed with how much stuff we have ...

Putting the Apartment on a Diet

To go along with yesterday's things cluttering up the bathroom post and Gregory's post about when things start possessing you, we were reminded that if we feel overwhelmed with how much stuff we have ...

5 Things Cluttering up the Bathroom

Having just moved, I had a chance to take another look at everything I was hanging onto in the bathroom and all that I could let go of. Ironically I still moved it all and decluttered once I was in t...

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