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When Jessica Archibald and her husband Stephen bought their 1909 home, it was “like walking into a ’60s time capsule,” Jessica says. There was an intercom system, built-in radio, Formica countertops, and carpet.“Sixty-year-old carpet on the kitchen floor,” Jessica says. “It doesn’t get more disgusting than that.
I have a lot of clothes and not a lot of space in my room, which means everything is a bit crammed together. From a storage perspective this is workable, but it does mean that my clothes — especially my summer linens — tend to get wrinkled.I don’t own an iron or ironing board, and my steamer has seen better days, which is why I was so excited to learn a trick for banishing wrinkles from linen clothing without any of those tools. You just need water and a spray bottle.
When it comes to decluttering, what stops me — more often than not — from getting rid of items is not knowing where to start, feeling dread about saying goodbye to sentimental items, and tossing an item I may possibly still need. And I’m sure I’m not the only one.I’ve experienced all the above, but when I adopted the “Limbo Box” method for decluttering, it changed everything.Here’s how I approach the “limbo box” method for decluttering.
Fixer-uppers need a lot of attention — especially over-100-year-old fixer-uppers. So no surprise that when Liz Elliot moved into hers, a Sears kit home in historic Charleston, she and her husband focused on making the essential parts of the house livable and didn’t pay a lot of mind to the guest bedroom.
