Us humans are such emotional creatures. We love to reminisce and relive the feelings associated with our past experiences and relationships. Because we like to take trips down memory land and relive the feelings, we collect and keep all the stuff related to the memory. We keep prom gowns and yearbooks, letters and pictures, mementos and keepsakes, knick-knacks and do-dads passed down from View Post
Kiss Back To School Stress Goodbye
Joyfully you sing the song in your head, "it's the most wonderful time of the year." No, it's not Christmas, it's back to school. With September just around the corner your quite mornings will soon get ramped up and crazy! Sure you're glad they're headed back to the classroom but with it comes the stress of getting everyone out the door on time. I was pretty lucky. I only had one child, View Post
Simple Paper Storage Solutions
Many years ago I was left with the task of cleaning out my parents home of 55 years. It was stuffed from top to bottom with everything and anything you could imagine. My father was an accountant and paper was his life. Back then, they didn't have digital ways to keep track of paper; it was all done with paper and pen. I remember vividly the day I was going to tackle his office. I knew I View Post
15 Back To School Hacks That Are As Easy As 1-2-3
I always loved back to school time. My daughter and I would head out on several occasions for all the back to school essentials and then some. Of course, this was back in the day when I was a super overshopper, and so we racked up quite a big bill each August to the tune of 1K. When she went to college, it was worse. This year the average family will spend $488. Still a hefty amount of View Post
Straightforward Filing Strategies That Will Slay The Paper Dragon
What is clutter? Nothing more than postponed decisions and that's especially true when it comes to all that paper you have lying around the house. Between the junk mail, important mail, the endless daily barrage of schoolwork and flyers, newsletters and Sunday school handouts, schedules, invitations, notes, and lists...as a society we are drowning in paper! You would think that with all the View Post
3 Unexpected Lessons I Learned From The Kon Mari Method
I'm pretty much a clutter free person. I don't have anything unnecessary lying around and on more than one occasion have tossed things that I later found out were useful and necessary. Everything in my home has its place, and if someone moves something from where it belongs, I get annoyed. So I figured downsizing my home and preparing for an upcoming yard sale would be a piece of View Post
