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February 9, 2023

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 […]

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December 2, 2022

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 […]

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February 4, 2021

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 […]

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January 21, 2021

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 […]

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January 14, 2021

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 […]

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December 30, 2020

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 […]

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December 27, 2020

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. […]

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February 13, 2020

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 […]

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February 11, 2020

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 […]

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January 15, 2020

Commit; don’t wait for motivation.

I don’t like to exercise. I never really have. There are times I can forget I’m exercising while I’m having fun playing a game or sport, but it has to be something I’m truly loving and that is rare in my adult life. I’m just not one of those people that is like “woohoo – […]

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