Have you ever cleaned up your home for company and then promised yourself you will keep it that way…always? Then daily life gets in the way and before you know it the house is a mess with clutter again. You beat yourself up for not keeping your promise. You tell yourself you are a failure. [...]
In every store you go to there is red, white, and blue displays enticing you to buy all kinds of things to get in the spirit of the holiday. You could spend a fortune on these things. Or you could spend quality time with your children or the creative child in yourself and have fun [...]
I haven’t blogged for awhile. Below is this week’s newsletter explaining why. Cut Clutter With Scissors Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 18 May 2, 2010 It’s been awhile since I wrote a newsletter. Sometimes life throws you a few lemons and sometimes you feel like you’ve been run over by a bulldozer. The last four weeks [...]
I have found over the years that if I plan out a project on paper I have a much higher success rate in completing it. To make it easy for myself I would design a worksheet and make copies of it for each new project. Over the years I have designed more specific worksheets for [...]
I was talking to my neighbor this morning and he mentioned how he was getting ready for all the parties he expected to have in May. Why the parties? Because his daughter was graduating college and his son was graduating high school. Each has their own friends and then there is all the family and [...]
I am trying a new format with my weekly newsletter and this blog. If you have been receiving the newsletter you know that each week I give you a decluttering/organizing tip along with dates and links for events that are occurring during the current month. The newsletter has become lengthy so I have decided to [...]
March is a transition month for clothing in many parts of the country. It’s been in the 60′s here all week. I pulled out the short sleeve shirts. Yea! But this weekend it’s suppose to get cold again. Boo! So I can’t put away the winter clothes just yet but some days I need the [...]
When there is a lot of clutter laying around sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Most people of heard the saying “peeling an onion” applied to many different things. A few years ago I heard it applied towards clearing out clutter. I think it was Flylady (Flylady.net) but I’m not 100% sure. Either [...]
“It’s income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta.” ~Dave Barry Last night I decided it was time to start getting all my tax papers together and organized. All year long I put receipts, pay stubs, and [...]
I find it interesting that when I am cleaning the house to have company over I notice things that are in my “blind spots” the rest of the time. For example, I have white baseboards which of course have the tendency to show dirt. Most of the time I don’t even notice the slight darker [...]