Declutter
7 Steps to Declutter Your Life and Why It’s Important
Being surrounded by clutter increases our cortisol levels; cortisol is considered the “stress hormone” and harms our health all the way around – from depression to heart disease – Clutter is bad for our health. The main reason is: It’s an ever-present reminder of all the things we need to deal with; it’s as if…
Read MoreHow to declutter your home – 6 easy steps
Typically we use 20% of our stuff 80% of the time. These six steps will help you sort through the excess so that your home is easy to manage
Read MoreClutter is gaslighting you and here’s how to prevent it
When I think back to before minimalism and how hard it was to get rid of stuff and how hard it was to manage the stuff, I think about why I was keeping it. But I wasn’t prepared for having people over at a moment’s notice. When I think about all those reasons, I was…
Read MoreQuestions to ask to help figure out what you need in your kitchen
When I was first decluttering, I wanted a list of exactly what I should have: Unfortunately, I can’t give you an exact list of what you should keep in your kitchen because my cooking habits are going to look completely different than yours: I cook twice a day for five people and make a wide…
Read More23 Easy Things to Declutter in 2023
If we lack motivation, it can help tremendously to start with EASY action steps. Today, I wanted to talk about 23 relatively easy things to declutter. They don’t take a lot of thought – we can simply declutter them. 1. Expired medicine OTC meds can be tossed in the trash; controlled substances can either be…
Read MoreThe things we need to do daily to keep a clean home
Do you remember when you hit puberty and realized you had body odor? Some people were very conscientious about it; their parents gave them deodorant, and they were good at hygiene from the beginning. Then there were those of us who didn’t care, didn’t notice a smell, and just kept living life. Until we got…
Read MoreHow to break the emotional ties that prevent you from decluttering
I was picking my 9-year-old, Paul, up from school on Friday when I saw him coming toward me, looking very dejected. As he approached, he said, “I was very sad today.” After asking what was going on to make him feel that way, he showed me how the zipper had broken on his coat and…
Read MoreSpeed decluttering: Reduce possessions and create a clean home faster
First off. If you want to speed through your home, making decisions and decluttering things at an accelerated pace, you have to be willing to make hard decisions and make them quickly. So many people WANT to speed through decluttering, but when they pick up an item, they think, “I don’t know about this one.…
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