Keep Less. Make More.
If you say you want to declutter but it’s not happening, what’s stopping you from decluttering? I’m taking part, along with some of my co-workers, in the Whole Life Challenge, a six-week program that focuses on diet, exercise, getting enough sleep and water and different aspects of well-being. This week’s well-being challenge has to do […]
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are designed to thwart our minimalist tendencies. Here’s how to avoid the spending spree. Affiliate links included in a tongue-in-cheek way. Everyone wants you to buy something on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, whatever you want to designate these days of hyper-consumption after the holiday designed to remind us to be […]
Why Swedish death cleaning and natural disasters can motivate us to declutter things now, while we still have the chance. There have been so many people affected by hurricanes, earthquakes, fires and other disasters lately. I’ve read more than one person say that having to clean out a house full of stuff that was flooded […]
Join me and declutter one thing a day this month — whatever month you read this is! I have fallen out of the habit of working on going through my craft supplies — and other things that need to be decluttered — so I’ve decided that I need a challenge. Maybe you do, too. So […]
A Raskog cart is a classic for craft room organization, but how do you organize a Raskog cart to make it work for you? Affiliate links included for your convenience. Do you have a Raskog cart? This three-shelf cart from IKEA is a crafty classic that it seems like everyone has (is that craft-related FOMO […]
Display your button collection in this easy wall art project. Affiliate links included for your convenience. I don’t know why I ended up with this jar of buttons. I think it was my grandmother’s, and it ended up in my stash at some point when I still lived with my parents and came with me […]
Year of No Clutter isn’t a how-to book, but it might still motivate you to make space for your creativity. Affiliate links are included for your convenience. Eve O. Schaub is one of those writers who likes to do experiments on herself – and, by extension, her family – and then write about it. Her […]
Unfinished projects, especially those that have been hanging around for a long time, count as clutter. Let’s finish some of them! I’m been in a bit of a finishing frenzy this week. On Sunday I finished knitting the last panel for and sewed together a blanket. And I sewed a sleeve on and finished the […]
I feel like a big problem we have when we try to get rid of craft supplies we don’t want or need is that we feel like we’re supposed to fulfill the promise of those items, and to get rid of them makes it impossible for us to do so. Or so we think. When […]
How do you declutter like an economist? Consider the reality of sunk costs. There’s a problem a lot of people have when they declutter: they think too much about the money they spent on the items they are getting rid of. It feels like a huge waste to give away all those craft supplies — […]