Practical Ways to Improve Your Home, Life, & Budget
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I’m pretty anti-clutter (understatement of the century). I don’t like clutter in my own home and I also don’t want to be a cause of clutter for anyone else. When we’re giving Christmas gifts, I try to make sure that (1), I know that I’m buying exactly what someone wants/needs, or (2), whatever I’m buying […]
I start to feel a little claustrophobic in our house around January. Part of it is the cabin fever of being stuck inside a lot because of extreme weather (we live in West Michigan) and part of it is because there’s usually some extra stuff crowding up our house after Christmas. Neither of our families […]
A cluttered home can start to feel like an unfixable problem after a while. When you go through your house, decluttering over and over again, and you feel like you end up right back where you started, it’s SO frustrating. And really, you can declutter every day of your life, but if you don’t find […]
Getting rid of things can be a frustrating and painful process. In fact, a study was done that found that the area of your brain that lights up when you get a papercut is the same area that lights up when you get rid of something. This basically means that your brain links the loss […]
If you’ve ever successfully decluttered your home, you might have been disappointed that it didn’t stay decluttered forever. The fact is that we are constantly bringing things into our homes and we rarely take anything out. Even though I’m very diligent about not bringing in excess stuff, clothes and shoes wear out or don’t fit […]
Do the flat surfaces in your house seem to be clutter magnets? Like every table, desk, dresser, and counter is piled high with mail, paperwork, random tools, things that need returning, and who knows what else? If it’s been a while since you’ve been able to eat at your kitchen table or if cooking a meal […]
I think everyone would like to live in an uncluttered home, but how on earth do you find the time to declutter? There are plenty of guides (many on this blog even) on how to declutter clothes, books, or family heirlooms, but those guides only work if you can find the time to do the […]
Ok, this might be the biggest reason why we all don’t want to get rid of stuff. What if I need it someday? That one question has us paying for bigger houses and storage units. It has us living in cramped and cluttered spaces. So let’s talk about keeping things “just in case” and see […]
What is it about space that makes us want to fill it? A blank wall. An empty drawer. A sparsely furnished room. I’ve always been a fan of extra space, but I’m as guilty as the next person of accepting hand-me-down furniture because I have the space to put it in. We’re in-between homes right now […]
Since 2016 is over, which officially means I’ve been blogging for a year (how cool is that?), I wanted to do a recap of the posts I’ve written that have gotten the most traffic. It was fun to look through my statistics to find the most popular posts. There were definitely some that surprised me. Sometimes […]
