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How To Avoid Buying Things And Never Using Them One reason we don’t use the stuff we already bought is a phenomenon called “the specialness spiral.” If we buy something, say a candle, and the first time we have an impulse to light it and we don’t, we imbue the item with additional value. It…

Tips For Reducing Clutter After The New Year Happy New Year everyone!!!! I hope everyone had warm and wonderful holidays. If you made resolutions for yourself this year, remember to take things one step at a time! Small changes will add up to a big change. If you want to have less clutter this year,…

Did your shopping-frenzy receipts, holiday cards, and to do lists officially destroy any semblance of order you had going on before the holidays? Is 2022 paperwork starting to smush into 2021 paperwork? Did the holiday rush turn your “office” into one giant (and growing) to do list? Once the papers start to take over, the…

It’s the time of the season when there are those last few folks on our holiday list we are struggling to buy gifts for. Either they have too much already or you’ve already given them the socks/tie/sweater trifecta and you are out of inspiration. But when we’re stumped on gift giving ideas, we’ll rush to…

Giving Tuesday used to be the perfect way to kick off the holiday season with care and gratitude…before the one-day-only chaos that was Black Friday. But Black Friday isn’t just Friday anymore. It’s expanding…from days to weeks (to nearly months!), and so is the chaos and stress that comes with it. The healthy answer to…

This time of year we tend to get a little frenzied with buying. Everywhere you look there are “must-have deals” that find a way to actually make you feel you must have them. But do you? Or do the folks on your holiday list need them? Your friends and loved ones wouldn’t want those costly…

Holiday shopping keeps sprouting up on us earlier and earlier…and especially earlier this year! Between supply-chain issues and our seemingly permanent pandemic-induced buying frenzy, stores have been sneaking out holiday isles and announcing Black Friday deals since September. But does anyone know what month it is anymore anyway! Pandemic-time has been a blur. Like all…

One of the biggest challenges I hear is finding, and maintaining, the motivation to get and stay decluttered. For some, it’s a challenge to even start. Others can start, but quickly get mired in “decision fatigue” as soon as they get rolling. Still others can declutter in a mad burst but struggle to keep it…

With Mother’s Day right around the corner we’re all thinking about how to best celebrate mom. She’s got everything, I mean everything, and you’re really struggling to find something to make her happy. Well, turns out, what moms want most is quality time with their family, and to know that they’re happy. So what better…