Hey friend, here’s something I don’t think gets talked about enough: clutter doesn’t just sit there. It costs you something, every single day, whether you’re paying attention to it or not. I call it the Clutter Friction Tax™, and once you can...
If you’ve tried to declutter and ended up right back where you started, I’d bet money it’s not because you don’t have the time, or the energy, or even the willpower. It’s because somewhere in the process, one of five thoughts talked you...
Hey friend. I want to talk to you before your next trip — not after it. Because the time to think about vacation clutter is not when you are standing in front of an open suitcase wondering where any of this stuff goes. It is before you leave. Before you buy. Before...
Most people think clutter happens because they buy too much. That is occasionally part of it. But it is not the main reason most homes accumulate clutter the way they do. Clutter is almost never a single decision to keep something. It is almost always the absence of a...
Hey friend. I want to be honest with you about something before we get into this one. The closet is where decluttering gets really personal. Every other category we’ve worked through — the expired condiments, the duplicate kitchen tools, the water bottle drawer...
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from living in a home that constantly asks things of you. Not the tiredness that a good night’s sleep fixes. The low-level, chronic drain of a space that never quite works — where finding things takes longer than...
