Many of you lamented the fact that I stopped publishing my weekend assignment posts. Well, here's a new take on an that old concept. For the next while [until we get sick of it] [until I run out of tasks], I'm going to be ending the week with a suggestion for how to get your spring clean on. Because if there's one thing I know for sure, other than that people's houses are filled with ...

I know we've touched on this at some point or other before, but I feel it's time to rehash the topic of replacements. I find that, with a high tendency, people buy items meant to replace versions of things they already own that need to be relieved. That is: they're falling apart, stained, threadbare, pilled, and generally haggard. Except something happens, which is that these individuals don't actually discard of the items they've bought replacements ...

There are two kinds of people who need a countertop-vessel for their kitchen utensils. The first is the kind that's really seriously about cooking; their vast utensil library, full of specialty tools, cannot be contained to merely one kitchen utensil drawer. The second is the small space denizen, who may not have a drawer for their underwear let alone one for their slotted wood spoons. That's a lie. There is a third individual who prefers ...

It's important that we get one thing straight before we commence the blogging, which is that my idea to post about kitchen canisters came first. You got that? I had no idea whatsoever that The Container Store just happened to be having a kitchen sale, meaning that all the canisters I would necessarily be recommending would be more affordable right now than they usually are. I mean it; no clue. Despite how much of my ...