I usually leave Christmas decorations up until New Years Day. We’re away from home several days around Christmas so I feel obligated to keep the tree up longer. This year we were home for Christmas. The tree came down on the 26th.
I hemmed and hawed about when I would take it down. I started coming […]

Patti has a
few tips today on how to have a organized and safe Christmas.

Have you bought your calendar yet? Are you a one calendar in a central location sort of person or do you have one you carry in your purse or pocket?
Until last year I was a one calendar sort of girl. I had a memory like an elephant. I could visualize the calendar at home and […]

I’m pretty ruthless about decluttering. However for most people the process is tough and often emotional. 
Com2Order has a great article entitled
The Onion Edit.
The Onion Edit allows people to declutter a little bit at a time. Karen says
This plan allows clients to purge and then have an adjustment period before they purge again.
She recommends […]

Until this morning I had never heard of
Squidoo. The site allows you to create a web site on virtually any topic.
Carmen has put together four “lens” on organizing topics. This looks like a lot of fun and I can’t wait to spend more time reading through the information she has put together.

Are you like me eyeing the boxes under the tree and beginning to wonder where you’ll put it all once the boxes are opened? Our daughter asked for three items that looked reasonably sized on the internet. Ha! The toys are enormous.

Jill Miller Zimon recently contacted me about an article she wrote a few years […]

Erin at
Unclutterer offers a
tip for cleaning a little each day to leave weekends free.
One day, one room: Dedicate half an hour to cleaning one room every day instead of cleaning the whole house on the weekend.
We’re playing catch up this week after devoting approximately 35 hours last week to the church Christmas pageant. […]

How long do you think I can drag out this topic?

Lori asked in the post below what folders are in our mail center. I followed
Julie’s recommendations for the most part.
1. Bills 1-15th
2. Bills 16-30th
3. Important papers to file
4. Requires action
5. To Burn (we live in the country and can burn although for […]

In a fit of frustration recently I told my husband that we either needed to make space work better in our home or we needed to sell it because we’ve outgrown it. Obviously making space work better is cheaper than buying a new house so he started poking around to find ways to ease my […]

Remember I wrote before Thanksgiving about
creating a mail center? I finished this project last Friday and wanted to show you the pictures. Julie at
Declutter It was my inspiration.
Here’s how our old mail area looked before:

Here’s how it looks now:

That’s it. One small box. The filing cabinet everything sat on before went to the […]