Keep Less. Make More.
The other day the Internet gave me an article from Southern Living that purported to be about things that people regret decluttering. The story is ridiculous, but feeling bad about decluttering or wishing you hadn’t gotten rid of things is real. No One Regrets Decluttering Wallpaper The article, with the clickbaity title (hey, it worked […]
Affiliate links included for your convenience. Thanks to Tuttle for providing a review copy of this book to me! Japanese minimalism has been a popular approach to decluttering and home organization around the world for decades now. Learn the basics as well as why this approach is helpful in Danshari: The Japanese Art of Decluttering […]
Creativity thrives on constraints, so can decluttering make you more creative? I was thinking about this as I read a piece from the Atlantic (that’s a gift link if you want to read it, too) about monotasking, from the author of the forthcoming book (affiliate link included for your convenience) Inside the Box, which is […]
As you go on your decluttering and minimalism journey, you might hear different minimalist lifestyle terms and wonder what they mean and how they apply to you. Are you a minimalist? Practicing underconsumption or anticapitalism? While labels don’t really matter it can be helpful to think about where your values are and why you’re working […]
If you want to start slowly on your minimalism journey but make steady progress decluttering, the minimalism game might be for you. What is the Minimalism Game? Popularized by The Minimalists (learn more about them here), the minimalism game is a way to consciously and steadily declutter a space — whether a room or your […]
Trends in decluttering come and go like in everything else, and reverse decluttering seems to be having a moment. Let’s look at what it is and how to reverse declutter your spaces. How Decluttering Usually Works If you’ve ever read a book or watched a show about decluttering, or even just tried to do it […]
My office is the catch-all for stuff in our house, and it’s gotten pretty overwhelming, so I started using this decluttering tip and I thought it might help you, too. Declutter five things at a time. Once a day, or every time you walk into the room, or as often as you can, pick up […]
I have so much crafty stuff, even after decluttering my craft supplies a few times, that I think it’s time for a no buy craft supplies period. I want to say it will be all year but I’m not sure I can make it LOL. Here’s what I’m thinking about as I plan for no […]
Here’s a decluttering tip that literally came to me in a dream. I know that sounds silly, but hear me out. I was at a conference or something in the dream, and while we were attending an event someone came in and mixed everyone’s stuff together. Not just putting it all in the same place, […]
I know a lot of people have problems with actually getting rid of things when they declutter, but putting things in decluttering purgatory can help. If you’re the sort of person who is hesitant to declutter — or to actually get rid of the things you’ve chosen to declutter — using a purgatory system can […]