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We all get junk mail. One purchase from a catalog or online company, and suddenly you’re receiving catalogs from places you’ve never heard of. Or you give money to one organization and suddenly your mailbox is filled with requests from other organizations. And let’s not even start on the credit card offers…
Looking at how much [...]

I love books. I have books in almost all rooms in my house. My favorite store is Barnes and Noble, and I know all the major online bookstores as well. I can also pinpoint the location of every used bookstore and library branch within five miles of my home.
Sad, isn’t it?
The one thing my book [...]

I don’t know if I am more aware of it these days, but suddenly I am being presented with many opportunities to declutter my spaces. At work, home, or in the car, I have experienced opportunities to declutter.
Since I know that decluttering makes me feel better mentally and physically, I take these chances when [...]

There are times, particularly ones of stress, where I find myself mulling over things people have said and done. Never a great one for speaking on the fly, I think up retorts long after the conversation has finished. This past week was particularly bad, with a hard-headed individual bending the rules to his liking and [...]

Last week I promised a look at my decluttering of another room: my bedroom. I used Peter Walsh’s techniques in It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff of deciding the purpose of a room, then removing everything that doesn’t fit that purpose.
Unlike my office, which I have [...]

Do We Have To Be Completely Uncluttered?
I have often wondered what would happen if I had clutter under such control that I would not have any in the house. Everything would have a place and be in that place. Perfection.
Are We Setting Ourselves Up for Failure?
The last word drew my attention. Perfection. The unattainable state. [...]

I came across this idea I was reading Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More. It is fascinating to me the possibility of the link between clutter and fat. But it was a new way of looking at things.
In the book Peter Walsh pointed [...]

Photo by By Olly M PusI was poking around on my PDA a few weeks ago, and was horrified to see that almost all my memory was gone. I took a look at the application list, and sure enough, there were many programs on there that I don’t use regularly or at all. It was [...]