Collecting My Thoughts

We’ve been working at removing more clutter—professional papers, memorabilia from travel, old art supplies, frames, books I had given Phil o...

A good friend knew I was sorting and pitching things (some back to retirement) while moving back into my office after Phil's death, and ...

“Yesterday I dusted off 20+ year old paintings done by our daughter that she stored here when she moved to Boston. Certainly, she intended t...

We had an interesting program at Lakeside this morning on "Organizing 101: Simplify our Stuff" by Chris Perrow. One member of the ...

My friends and I compare notes on how we're doing in clearing out the clutter. Three are planning moves to retirement apartments; we...

I carry a small bag so I can't load it with junk. I don't even carry a bill fold/change purse. Kleenex, pen, checkbook, keys, ipod...

When I got home from exercise class this morning, I decided to tackle the mismatched storage boxes in the garage. I really don't like s...

We declutter about every 4 years. This method wouldn't work for me (I already have 12 blogs, so I don't need another one), but I t...

That's what Fly Lady says . I thought it was a fifty-fling, but after checking the site, I see it is 27. "Take a garbage bag and wa...

For many years when I was working at the Veterinary Medicine Library at Ohio State, I would have an annual review with my boss, Jay Ladd. H...

Before I cleaned off the living room table I decided to count the magazines. Actually, there were more than 13, but two of the titles weren...

Shamed into cleaning my car interior I've cleaned out my car. I was shamed into it. On Wednesday I'd parked at the UAPL Lane Rd. n...

What's in your kitchen? This was written in April 2006 when I was commenting at another blog , that kitchens encourage us to over eat, ...

Do you have clutter? I was going to download this scale of clutter , but when I saw that it was 9 pages long and included newspapers stored...

The clutter challenge A friend and I are challenging each other to remove some of the clutter from our homes and lives. We both have a pro...