Archive for the ‘Clutter Control’ Category
Make Organizing Toys As Simple As Child’s Play
In: Clutter Control
22 Feb 2010Toys can be one of the hardest things to organize and I think this comes down to three things:
1. We are hung up by convention
2. We expect the same from kids as we do from ourselves and
3. We keep toys too long.
What follows are three toy organizing systems I don’t like, followed by three systems I do like.
Don’t [...]
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- Tags: baskets, dedicated zones, purging, toys
Decluttering Books
In: Clutter Control
17 Feb 2010Jerry Seinfeld once did a routine about keeping a personal library so you can show off and say “look at all I know!” (Sorry, couldn’t find it on YouTube.) My lovely wife is not amused by this and warns me to keep my decluttering paws away from her bookcases. So I do. If you, however, [...]
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- Tags: books, donation, half.com, library
Five Organizing Lessons From Making A Snowball
In: Clutter Control
10 Feb 2010Well the snow’s finally here in a big way and with it a blank canvas of possibilities and limitations. I could wax poetic about the many ways this blank canvas relates to organizing, but for this post I’m just going to focus on how the lessons of making a successful snowball relate to the practice [...]
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- Tags: decisions, organizing, snowball
How To Break The Logjam With One Magic Question
In: Clutter Control
8 Feb 2010If you’ve got a lot of clutter to organize, it can be overwhelming and it can be hard to know where to begin. Perhaps you have found yourself here in the past and have found the challenges complicated, but the answer lies in very simple question.
Getting organized always begins with a basic sorting of like [...]
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- Tags: ask why, clutter, logjam
Attic Attack
In: Clutter Control
6 Jan 2010As you put your Christmas decorations away for another year, you may be seeing a lot of your attic and you may not like what you see. The attic is often the last room one organizes in the home because it is so out of sight, out of mind. It can, however, be [...]
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