There was a post in the facebook group last week that really hit home to a lot of people. This statement really makes us think about our stuff differently. There’s not just a cost when we buy the item to begin with, but keeping clutter just wastes more time and money in having to maintain […]
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Required Reading {Prepare for the 91 Day Declutter Challenge!}
The Declutter Challenge starts soon. To get ready, there is some recommended required reading. It is important to get your thinking straight before you start this huge journey! A Million+ Articles to Inspire You to DECLUTTER The easiest way to read all my decluttering inspiration is to look through my HUGE archive of decluttering articles on the […]
Decluttering Can Save You Money … here’s some of the ways
This week I had a great little conversation with a reader in the comment section (Hi Rose!) and it made me want to write this post to share with everyone. Here is her initial comment that started our chat – “I really love your posts. Lots of tried-and-true wisdom, and well-written! I always loved to […]
You deserve a home, not a storage unit.
Sometimes you will declutter something you eventually wish you hadn’t. Declutter anyway. I wrote Your Junk or Your Life almost 8 years ago, and the advice continues to ring true. There may be declutter casualties, but the benefits of decluttering outweigh the casualties exponentially. Yeah, you may have to re-buy something later. But how much […]
When in doubt, toss it out!
This week in my pantry I came across the bread machine. Oh, the bread machine. A few of my children have been diagnosed with extreme gluten allergies over the last couple of years, so this bread machine has sat un-used for just as long. (And please don’t come at me about the gluten thing. I’m […]
Empty Your Trunk First!
In the Fall of 2019, I learned an important lesson. Before you take a load to donate, remove EVERYTHING else out of your trunk that isn’t meant to be donated. It was our anniversary in November of 2019. I had been in charge of an activity the night before at church creating Meal Bags for […]
The Top 10: Declutter Inspiration
I write a lot about decluttering. Like, a lot a lot. If you want to browse everything, do that here, but maybe you have limited time and you just want to read the best of the best. I will say, it was very hard to reduce down my favorites to only 10, because there’s some […]
When to Avoid Garage Sales
Yesterday I started cleaning up from Christmas. I found an ornament stacking bin that I no longer needed. I knew someone would want it the day after Christmas, so I grabbed my phone, snapped a picture, posted it in about a minute … and it was picked up off my front porch within an hour. […]
While decluttering, “What do I do with the stuff left in the Relocate bin?”
A question I’ve gotten a lot during this declutter challenge is “What do I do with the stuff left in the Relocate bin?” That is a great question, because the answer to this question holds so much power to really transforming how you think about stuff and clutter. During decluttering, you sort stuff into different […]
Enough Craft Supplies?
One reader replied to Sunday’s newsletter: I’m reading this post with tears in my eyes. Thank you, Mary. You’ll never know how much I needed “permission” to let go of the boxes and boxes of paints, fabric, stencils, etc. Thank you so much. from S.W. Because of her reply, I decided to turn that newsletter […]