Small spaces make situating most things a bit trickier, and trash and recycling receptacles are no exception. Actually, finding space for said receptacles is often difficult even in not-that-small-spaces. I'm not sure why, other than maybe they're the bottom of the storage food chain. Much to the chagrin of zero waste proponents, disposal of used materials continues to play a major role in most everyone's daily life. Without a system in place, trash and recycling ...

I've been thinking a lot lately about how strange it feels to be writing about organizing products and beautiful interiors when it seems that the whole world has erupted into one large dumpster fire. In the midst of political discord and natural disaster, here I am blabbing on about organizing products, lauding the benefits of using trays to corral one's belongings, and such. There's no denying that talking about any topic that isn't somber and ...

Here's the thing: Stefani Stein is what we need right now. I tried writing why that's so a hundred (four) different ways, but each of them was bleaker than the last, and I can't stand to lead with that. Sometimes, (all the time) the best course of action is to cut to the chase by saying only: Trust me; Stefani Stein is what we really need right now. Sure, emergency support to thwart the best ...

In the last couple of years, there's been a marked shift among my clients in regards to the keeping of hard copies. They don't want to keep them, is, predictably, what's happening. The threat of an audit once inspired enough anxiety that holding on to physical papers felt like an insurance policy against calamity. Lately, people are happy to put their faith in the cloud to come to their aid. Digitizing has begun to feel ...

All it takes is a scroll through the comment section of any large online platform to see that, along with becoming a (some might say overly) PC society, we have become a group of people in the habit of scolding each other. Criticizers are all-too-common culprits of comment-section tumult who seem strangely eager to have found a chance to scold the team or individual behind a post. This is ugly. I can't believe you would ...