I'm so happy to be sharing the 5 most popular decluttering posts of the past year with you, today. In many ways, the contents of these posts are what I consider to be the most important messages to spread; Live Simply required reading, if there was such a thing. Maybe I'll make that a thing one day soon. Until then, you're free to peruse as you wish, although it seems the only sensible thing to ...

Welcome to the annual top post posts! I happen to be of the opinion that this is one of the more fun blogger traditions. I find it so interesting to see which posts, out of the whole year's worth, have risen above the rest in terms of popularity. The reception of some posts makes perfect sense to me, and others, well, there's a reason why this whole operation is much less a science than it is ...

If you've been reading along this year, these picks will likely not surprise you in the slightest. Probably you're getting a little sick of hearing me talk about them, in fact. Regardless, they proved themselves essential to my client work this year and so I feel obliged to give credit where it is due-- My favorite organizing products of the past year then: 1. humangear Gotoob Travel Bottles w/ Suction cups // humangear GoToob If you're using any ...

Our society's extreme emphasis on the new year as the official commencement point for all personal growth is complicated to say the least. Promising to change yourself and your lifestyle drastically (just not yet) has a rather unhelpful effect: it delays our action now. What's the point of trying to get in shape now? What's the use in trying to get organized now? No point now. No point attempting to be disciplined, intentional, authentic now. ...

Recently I spent a day whipping my client's craftroom into shape. Her family hasn't lived in the home long, and my client and her 5-year old daughter's crafting supplies hadn't yet managed to move in. The supplies were there, but not unpacked, not organized, not set up to enable crafting and gift wrapping. Luckily we had an entire closet of storage space to work with, and very little clutter. I took one look at the ...