When you’re ready to get organized and you have some big projects in mind, it’s a good idea to take a moment to make a disposal plan so you can be free and clear of the debris as soon as possible and enjoy the results. You don’t want to sit around looking at piles of… Read more »
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The Most Important Organizing Tool You Already Have
I recently read The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (click here to see hardcover book at Amazon, click here to see Kindle version). It's a great book — the subtitle is "Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun." … Read more »
I Have Sworn Off These Things!
I am continually inspired and impressed by our Clutter Diet® members… last week in our member message boards, one of our very active and participating members started a thread called "I have sworn off these things!" She wrote a list and declared she would not buy any more candles, sweaters, shoes, cookbooks, or purses. She… Read more »
7 Considerations for Choosing Containers
Whether you shop at the dollar store or the Container Store, nowadays you have a great selection of containers of all types when you're ready to put your stuff away. How do you choose which containers are best for your purposes? Here are the factors: Size: Always measure your items and the space where the… Read more »
Unleash Hell on Your Closets
We here at The Clutter Diet have a lot of fun with the metaphor of weight loss as applied to getting organized. We lose "Clutter-Pounds" from our homes and we have a weekly "menu" plan of organizing projects. But the reason I started playing with that metaphor in the first place is that the process… Read more »
How To Finally Change Your Ways, Part 4
And now the fourth and final post in the series on my latest favorite book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by Chip & Dan Heath. A recap is right here, but if you want to read the previous posts in the series first, links are below. Here's the quick recap: Two… Read more »
Spare Me: The Seven Rules of “Spare”
I woke up somehow this morning with thoughts of spares… spare stuff, spare time, picking up the spare, spare ribs, spare some change, spare parts, can you spare a square… Welcome to my randomness! Let's spin it into organizing gold, shall we? 🙂 Spare stuff means having extra… having an alternate or auxiliary item…being prepared… Read more »
How to Finally Change Your Ways, Part 3
Here we are at the third post in the series on my most recent primo favorito book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by Chip & Dan Heath. I am at the NAPO conference this week– how many people have I mentioned this book to so far?? I love talking about it…. Read more »
Earth Day is Coming! 3 Ways to Organize “Green”
Just a brief post this time before I head out to the annual NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers) conference in Columbus, Ohio, tomorrow morning! I am looking forward to sharing with you what I learn when I return– always great new products and new insights from my colleagues. Friday will continue with my series… Read more »
How To Finally Change Your Ways, Part 2
Continuing my series on my delicious favorite-book-of-late, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by Chip & Dan Heath. You may want to read last week's post if you need to catch up– will also be posting links at the bottom of each series post as I go. Here's the quick recap: Two… Read more »
