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I am a professional organizer. And I am going to admit something to you that might seem quite odd. I hate the term organized.  Okay, maybe hate is a strong word. I don’t hate helping you [...]

I am going to make a bold statement here about clutter. More often than not what helps clutter grow and makes it comfortable in your home are systems that just don’t work.  This is not to [...]

In all my 18+ years of organizing people’s homes and offices, I don’t think there has been a project that hasn’t involved decluttering a closet or a drawer. In fact, the [...]

Listening to the messages your body sends out isn’t always easy. It’s not that you aren’t able to hear the messages. You are more than able. The difficulty is in actually paying [...]

In all the organizing jobs I have done over the past 17 years, there has never been one where clutter isn’t present.  And there has never been one where removing that clutter hasn’t [...]

I am a huge fan of meditating. Of slowing down the brain for even 10 minutes a day so it gets a much needed break. When I meditate my goal is to quiet things. It is to pause what is going a mile [...]

Got clutter? These days, who doesn’t? And I say that with love. But I think the reality is that most of us have things in our homes and offices for which we can honestly say we have no use [...]

Truth be told, my advice on clearing clutter starts with a question. This question is the first step in the process. It is a question I ask of my clients, and of myself, when I am getting ready [...]

A few years ago, I wrote about my goal to address the hidden clutter taking up space in my office. Oh the freedom I felt after doing a great big purge, getting rid of what I didn’t need or [...]

Clutter — you can’t live happily with it [in my opinion].  You can live quite well without it.  And most of us know this – intellectually. We just have a hard time actually developing the [...]