You know what professional organizers see when they have a nightmare? BASKETS!!! Many of my clients use baskets and bags for storage, and it drives organizers like me completely batty. Go to your closets right now and banish those baskets and bags. Here’s why: Basket and bags are not uniform, so you can’t stack them….
If you are of a certain age and you haven’t yet tried Swedish Death Cleaning, it’s time you did. “I have worked with so many relatives of people who never streamlined their belongings through Swedish Death Cleaning, only to leave a massive amount of stuff to the unfortunate next generation,” said The Clutter Queen in…
Think of the stuff you buy in an average week: a tube of toothpaste, tomatoes for a salad, a bottle of wine, gas for the car. We tend to think of gas as $2.89 a gallon, or a bottle of wine as $15. Joshua Becker, of Being Minimalist (no relation to Rhea Becker, the Clutter Queen), proposes…
Before the Clutter Queen was the Clutter Queen, she worked as an editor at Harvard University. This month, Harvard’s Kennedy School published a piece about the research on clutter. If you’re a geek, you will want to pore over these studies. Check out the title of this one: “In Pursuit of Happiness: Phenomenological Study of…
