Clutter Creep - The Silent Killer to your Decluttering Success
You’ve spent hours upon hours working on decluttering and organizing your home, yet it never feels done. What gives? When it comes down to it, the fact is that as much as you can put effort into getting things OUT of your home, you can’t completely prevent things from coming IN.
The Seasonal Switch
Here in Vermont we are lucky enough to enjoy 4+ seasons (don’t forget stick season, mud season and fake spring 1/fake spring 2) every year. While enjoying the weather changes, we also get to enjoy the routines of moving out the old - in this case winter - and bringing in the new - spring/summer.
The piles of wet mittens are replaced with piles of wet pool towels. Coat after coat after coat on the hooks in the mudroom are replaced with hats, bathing suits and beach toys. It’s like starting a new chapter of a book - so much possibility and promise of adventure ahead.
Embracing the Benefits of Downsizing
While generations ago the ideal life included the biggest house, now it’s about the biggest life.
National Get Organized Day is Friday!
If there is a national Eggs Benedict Day (there really is!!) why can’t there be a national Get Organized Day?! I love that this exists for a few reasons. First, it gives me yet another excuse to write about organizing. Second, it gives me pause to re-look at the why behind it. Do we need to get organized? Why should you get organized? What does it even mean?
Teaching Kids the Art of Organizing
Before you assume that my kids’ rooms are perfectly organized, let me just say - they are definitely not! Our kids have a much higher threshold for disarray than my husband and I do, and we try our best to work with that. Just because it is what I do doesn’t mean that it translates into my entire life. If only, right? I try to let their rooms be theirs. That being said, being able to declutter and organize is a life skill that they will take with them as they grow up and live outside of this house. So how can we as parents guide, encourage, and teach our kids how to take it in their own hands and live in a space that they are proud of?
How to Declutter and Organize your Vegetable Garden this Spring
I know, I know - you think that maybe I’m taking it too far…but my work doesn’t stop in a kitchen or closet. Why not declutter, simplify and organize the garden too! Simplifying your garden can make your summer not only more enjoyable but more bountiful as well! I am far from a gardening pro, but using what we know about our goals and strategies for our minimizing clutter in our homes, we can make great strides in the dirt too :)
5 Ways to Make Spring Cleaning More Bearable
I know. It’s probably not the highlight of the season for most people. Not even on the top 3 list of what you are looking forward to - but also, it is what we make of it, right? Right. Spring cleaning can suck or it can be a way to refresh (reinvent?) your home for the new season. I choose to embrace it and if you do too, read on for some tips on how to make it more fun and productive!
How to Hygge-up your Spring
As much as hygge seems like winter weather indulgence, it’s something we can enjoy year round. Home is the easiest place to start.
The Paper Situation
Deep in the “fun” of tax season, and despite being in the digital age, the flow of paper coming into our homes is at a high-point. If not tended to immediately, it can get out of control and add to the visual clutter that is already stressing us out in our homes.
Maintaining a decluttered home
We have to be diligent about controlling this influx in order to preserve all that hard work & time you have been investing in your home.
Progress over Perfection
When it comes down to it, a cluttered home is a home full of delayed decisions.
Making sense of it all
ADHD is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Symptoms might include: a hard time keeping track of things (keys for example), not being able to focus on jobs, activities, conversations, and tasks for extended periods of time, talking too much, not being able to settle down/sit still, fidgeting, difficulty waiting, and more. As you can imagine, these symptoms often result in a disorganized mind which can lead to a disorganized home.
Allergies at home
How can we support those we love while maintaining an organized and efficient home?
What happens next?
When you look around your home do you see a curated collection of what makes you happy or a bunch of….stuff?
So things don’t slip through the cracks…
The Monthly Reset helps prevent overwhelm and contains all the nuisance chores into one easy to reference list.
How to use habit stacking & daily resets to get things done
A reset is a combination of tasks that are bundled together to be completed at a certain time.