There are two basic ways to look at decluttering. “Aw man, I’ve got to go through all this crap and figure out what to do with it. This is stressing me out!” or “Hey, I can go through this crap that’s stressing me out and get rid of a lot of it!” The house is [...]

I read a tweet the other day that said “decluttering is as simple as picking up each item, and making one of the following choices”. It linked to a blog post showing six different options for what you could do with the item. Sigh. The problem has never been that the process is complicated. The [...]

I’ve gotten a few questions about various “preparedness” items related to entertaining. These involve dishes, extra seating, and other things that are very tempting to over-purchase “just in case”. I’m going to talk about chairs in this post, and I’m going to begin with a story. My First Office I know all about not having [...]