It’s wonderful to have an easy way of communicating with friends, family, and the rest of the world, but sometimes managing your email can feel like a full-time job. And if you have multiple email addresses? Fuhgeddaboudit! It can become such a time suck you feel like just throwing up your hands and giving up…
Decluttering
How to Declutter Your Books: Advice from an Editor
Reading is one of my favorite things to do. But that love of reading can sometimes lead us to buy more books than we know what to do with. And once we get started things can get out of control pretty quickly. If your shelves are overflowing it’s time to declutter your books. Before we…
Declutter Your Movie and Music Collection
If you’re reading this, you probably have a collection of movies and music that has way more than you will ever watch or listen to again. Movie and music media is hard to purge because there are usually lots of fond memories attached to them. But even if there aren’t, it can be hard to…
Organizing Under the Kitchen Sink
The cabinet under the kitchen sink is valuable real estate in any kitchen. The space is used often to store cleaning supplies, dishwashing detergent, and anything else you need easy access to. The best way to save time and money in the kitchen is to know exactly where everything is. I’ll walk you through steps…
Tips for Decluttering and Organizing Holiday Decorations
Do you ever get the feeling you have too many holiday decorations? You tell yourself you’ll declutter and organize everything after the holidays as you’re putting your decorations out. But then the season is over and you’re tired and just not “feeling it” so you put it off until next year. This is me literally…
How to Declutter Old Files
Paper clutter is probably the most common type of clutter we have in our homes, as well as the most frustrating. Keeping up with the daily influx of paper is bad enough but when it comes time to tackle old files it can be downright overwhelming. Being at home during the Coronavirus pandemic has me…
How to Declutter Your Magazines
Do you have a pile of magazines sitting somewhere in your house? If you’re into magazines, the answer is probably yes. Magazine lovers can have a really hard time keeping their collection under control. There’s just something about the glossy paper, the beautiful photos, and the unread articles that can make it hard to let…
5 Simple Steps to Declutter Your Medicine Cabinet
These are the first two shelves of my medicine cabinet. I’m not going to lie, I don’t actually know what’s in here except for the stuff I can see in the front. As you can probably tell, I have no organizational system happening here. It’s time to declutter because I’m tired of buying things I…
How to Decide What School Papers to Keep
If you have school-aged kids you know how much paper comes home on a daily basis. It’s pretty crazy. I don’t know exactly how many pieces of paper my kids bring home over the course of a year, but it feels like thousands. And since I’m sentimental about their school work and artwork and pretty…
4 Reasons We Procrastinate When It’s Time to Declutter
We moved into our house about three years ago. Right away we unpacked everything in our master bedroom. Within the first week we put away the clothes and the furniture was in place. But in a corner of our neatly arranged bedroom we still had one lonely box of stuff. Every now and then I…