Weekly Quick Tips Anticipating and Removing Obstacles to your Decluttering Success We've heard them all before ~ the reasons why you just can't get rid of an item that you never use. Before you begin purging a cluttered space, think about which items will be a...

Weekly Quick Tips Get Those Photos Out of the Shoebox ~ Easy Ways to Organize, Store and Enjoy Your Photos We wager this is a topic near and dear to your heart....who hasn't got a backlog of photos all over the house? With summertime on the horizon, this time of year...

Weekly Quick Tips Half-Way Point Organizing Principles Six months into the year, and we've shared twenty weekly quick tips and six monthly newsletters: time for review.  How much have you put into practice? Here are our favourite 'clutter-busting' principles: If it...

Weekly Quick Tips Organizing Lessons from Your Garden Weeding is a lot like decluttering. In fact there are many organizing lessons to be learned in your garden. The weeds will just come back. What's the point? It occurred to us recently that this is the very same...

Weekly Quick Tips Create a 'Landing Zone' One of the most effective clutter control solutions we recommend in many of the homes we work in is the 'landing zone/launch pad'. For many, this area is in the laundry room, or mudroom. Why does it work? This area is used to...

Weekly Quick Tips How to Start Subtracting When Things Aren't Adding Up "When things aren't adding up in your life, start subtracting." ~ Anonymous We came across this quote recently, and we just love it! There's such simple brilliance in those words. So often when...

Weekly Quick Tips Staying Ahead of Summer Clutter   When we think of summer, we tend to think of the fun stuff...sitting by the pool, going on vacation, to the beach, gardening, picnics, ice cream..... What we don't think of, right away, anyway, is dealing with...

Weekly Quick Tips Tame Your Email Clutter As with any other organizing project, taming your email in-box involves two distinct phases-the project phase and the maintenance, or habits phase. During the project phase your goal is to declutter your email in-box of...

Weekly Quick Tips Lighten Your Load Before You Move If you're getting ready to move ... whether across town or across the country, lightening your load ahead of time makes a world of sense! Moving offers a unique opportunity to start fresh and create an environment...