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...
Hey friend. The second phase of my 30-Day Declutter Challenge™ is where things start to feel different. We move out of the kitchen and into the spaces and surfaces that exist in your constant peripheral vision — the surfaces that are always there, always visible,...
Hey friend. I want to talk about something that doesn’t get said enough. Most people think decluttering is hard because there’s too much stuff. Too many decisions. Not enough time. That’s not why it’s hard. I have sat on floors with clients...