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Zen-Up Your Home with These 5 Steps
Busy life and too many chores can easily lead to chaos in your home with shoes, clothes and children toys everywhere. While decluttering will free up space, there are other things you can do to zen-up your home. Try these 5 steps and even if they are not some huge renovations, they will still help…
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How to Declutter & Organize Your Playroom
How’s your playroom looking since Christmas threw up on it? With the Twins birthday in November, by January we’re busting at the seams with mess and I’m ready for some serious decluttering. While I’d love to scoop everything into a bin bag and be done with it, my kids may have something to say about…
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How to Focus Your Closet Design like a Professional
Thank you California Closets for sponsoring this post. Your closet is a hard-working corner of your home. But a jumble of racking and an overfilled rail will not spark joy first thing in the morning. Today I’m celebrating my success in decluttering clothes and sharing how to focus your closet design like a professional. Following my…
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Why the Junk Drawer Is My Decluttering Nemesis
A journey towards minimalism is inevitably going to have setbacks, but the kitchen junk drawer is my decluttering nemesis. Every time I clear it, it comes back to haunt me… the wondrous crevice I can fill with one swoop of an arm across the kitchen counter. I need a new strategy because I refuse to…
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5 Simple Ways to Motivate Your Minimalism
Last year I began an awesome decluttering journey in a slow move towards minimalism. I have a family to consider so going extreme overnight wasn’t possible. The winter, however, has been difficult for motivation, and I finally feel like I’m emerging with a fresh burst of energy. Today I’m talking about simple ways to overcome the…
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Recovering from the Inevitable Holiday Clutter
Happy New Year! I, like many, have woken up this morning with a fresh wave of optimism and energy for the year ahead. The Christmas decorations are down, the excitement of the holidays is over and finally, we can all get back to ‘normal’. Despite thoroughly enjoying last month, I am feeling a bit hungover……
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Three Stages of Minimalism
It’s been a while since the last update on my minimalist journey, so I thought I’d share what’s been happening in the decluttering department. I’ve come to realize there are three stages of minimalism, and there’s little point in working on one stage without the others. I had a look through a box that made…
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Tips to Declutter and Organize: My Minimalist Progress
My mission for a simpler life continues, and I’ve been looking to the experts for more tips to declutter and organize my home and day to day life. I’ve worked incredibly hard over the past couple of months, but I’ve found decluttering is more of a challenge than expected. The more stuff I get rid…
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The Need for Minimalism: Confession of a Hoarding Mom
I’m keeping it short and sweet today because I’m on a mission… in a couple weeks I have a bunch of friends and family coming to stay, and I’ve just realized the house needs turning upside down. I am unable to stop myself walking into every room of the house with the eyes of a…
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The Meal Plan Mind Map: Cut Down on Waste
Spurred on by Suchitra of ‘MomLife‘ and her quest to break the seal on planning weekly meals, I have been brainstorming ways of shortening my shopping list. I’m a big fan of the list in all it’s forms but writing the list usually consists of: What do I fancy for dinner? What do I want…
