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Jun 11
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How To Stop Enabling A Hoarder Without Losing Your Cool

By Hoarding

First, I want to acknowledge that a person with a hoarding disorder is not defined by their disorder. People who hoard are much more than their collection of stuff. My use of the word “hoarder” in this piece is contrary to how I like to express myself. But I know that this is a term people search for and I want someone looking for information I am going to share to be able to find it. It’s important if you find yourself in this situation to know how to stop enabling a hoarder. There is a big difference between someone…

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Feb 26
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Use Life Hacks To Begin Creating Better Home Maintenance Routines

By Control Clutter

Last week I wrote about the best reason to declutter and organize your home. It is, in case you don’t know, for you. Declutter and organize your home to make it look the way you want it to, to make yourself happy. Often we let things slide because no one else is around to be clean, tidy, and organized for. We ask ourselves ‘why bother?’ and ‘who cares?’.  The flip side of this is that if we don’t bother to clean up, tidy, and declutter after ourselves we end up with a home that is so disorganized that we become…

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Aug 28
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a woman, overwhelmed, at a sink full of dishes who wants to learn how to organize your life

How To Organize Your Life When You Are Overwhelmed

By How to Organize Your Life Blog

It’s hard to imagine that you can EVER organize your life when you are feeling overwhelmed by all that you need to do. Everything in your life may feel equally important. Many things and people may be virtually (and actually) shouting for your attention. You may have lots of thoughts running around in your head that you keep telling yourself are important. Some of these may involve multi-step projects to complete, errands to run, chores, emails, etc. It’s probably exhausting you to keep remembering to remember.  As a professional organizer I am here to tell you it’s possible to organize…

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Feb 13
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The Best Way to Conscientiously Organize Your Stuff

By How To Organize

If you follow me, you may have noticed that I have been absent from posting for the last few weeks. It feels like a long time to me. Have you missed me? While I would like to say I have missed writing and posting my thoughts here, the truth is I have been so busy I haven’t given posting my blog a second thought. I have been unpacking and spending time to conscientiously organize what I intend to be my forever home. Even though I am a professional organizer, setting up my home, unpacking boxes, and finding new homes for…

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Aug 15
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a woman wondering how to start decluttering if you're overwhelmed

How To Start Decluttering When You’re Overwhelmed

By Control Clutter

There are two questions potential clients often ask me during our initial free phone consultation. The first question is really more of a statement, and it goes something like this: I’m so overwhelmed by all my clutter I don’t know how to get started. The question is: how to start decluttering when you’re overwhelmed? The second question is: where do I start decluttering? Both are great questions. The second question is the easiest to answer, you start decluttering in the area that bothers you the most. That differs for each and every person. Let’s address the first question, which is…

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May 31
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daughter having a difficult conversation with her mother

Difficult Conversations with Your Parents: Why They are Necessary & How to Have Them

By How to Organize Your Life Blog, Rightsize Your Life

I don’t know about you, but I avoid difficult conversations like the plague. I would rather do almost anything other than have a difficult conversation. In fact, I have become talented at skirting around any topic that borders on introducing a difficult topic. The fact is, though, that it’s necessary to have difficult conversations with your parents so that you know how best to support them and what their wishes are should a delicate situation arise. I wrote a blog about a year ago after visiting with my son and his family in San Francisco. As a parent visiting my…

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Feb 02
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man running in a wheel getting no where and feeling overwhelmed.

Feeling Overwhelmed? You’re Not Alone

By How To Organize, How to Organize Your Life Blog

Feeling overwhelmed can stump even the most productive of us. We can’t expect ourselves to do everything all the time. Do it all We think we can do it all, all the time: manage our home, take care of the children, maintain a relationship with our partner, go to work, tend the garden, take care of the pets, keep up with the laundry, make yummy meals and the list goes on. Technology doesn’t help Technology adds to feeling overwhelmed. We are constantly bombarded by technology. Our phones make different sounds to indicate a text was received, an email has arrived,…

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Oct 02
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Situational Disorganization

By Control Clutter, How to Organize Your Life Blog

What is situational disorganization? It is disorganization resulting from a new and different, sometimes temporary situation. This type of disorganization can be overwhelming, stressful and lead to feelings of anxiety. Some examples of situational disorganization are: Moving Divorce Death of a loved one Remodeling your home New baby Newly diagnosed illness I’m experiencing situational disorganization first hand because my kitchen is being remodeled. I moved everything out of my kitchen and the sitting area adjacent to the kitchen. I piled everything into my dining room so that I could still use my living room. The entry into the living and…

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Jun 08
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Going from ‘To-Do’ to Done

By How To Organize, How to Organize Your Life Blog

How long is your ‘to-do’ list? Do you have some things that never seem to leave it? I think you know what I’m talking about. These are the things that you just don’t really want to do so you leave them to the end of the day when you realize that you simply don’t have time to do them. Then you transfer those things to the list for the next day. I wonder if any of you reading this have ever done that? Actually, I’m sure you have but the question is really will you admit to doing it? I…

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Apr 27
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Feeling Overwhelmed?

By How To Organize, How to Organize Your Life Blog

It’s not unusual to feel a bit overwhelmed at this time of year. Why? Well, if you have children there are all the end of year school activities. These include awards ceremonies, class parties, prom, graduation ceremonies and parties, athletic competitions and the list goes on. If you don’t have children the groups you belong to may be winding down, finishing up activities. Then there is the yard. If you live in the South you may be changing out the winter annual plants and replacing them with the spring/summer colorful annuals. If you live in the North you may be…

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