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Time to Purge Your Magazines!

Posted in: Get Organized!, Home Office, Living Room, Paper Piles, Purge & Declutter | June 10, 2009 at 10:20 pm , by CarlaRae Arneson

Baskets of unread magazines: this is a biggy for many women I know and love. We HATE to part with our beloved magazines… especially the ones we have read with all the dog-eared pages. We might actually need something we’ve seen or, God forbid, we might miss a good article....

365 Things in 365 Days

Posted in: Get Inspired!, Purge & Declutter | April 4, 2009 at 5:28 am , by CarlaRae Arneson

An inspiring success story from Body+Soul Magazine: “Last Year, I finally decided to do something about all the clutter in my house. My plan? Get rid of 365 things in 365 days. I started with small items and soon found that viewing the junk in my home with an eye...

Too Frugal, or Not Too Frugal. That is the Question.

Posted in: Get Inspired!, Purge & Declutter | February 6, 2009 at 11:38 pm , by CarlaRae Arneson

Here is an article I read in Reader’s Digest: Question from a reader:I have to use things until they wear out before getting new ones. It took me seven years to use up 14 bottles of nail polish. I should get a new pair of sandals, but my old ones...

Organize a Swap Party!

Posted in: Events, Everything Else..., Get Inspired!, Purge & Declutter | January 17, 2009 at 11:23 pm , by CarlaRae Arneson

The new trend is to “reduce, reuse, and recycle”. Why not have fun while doing it… in fact, why not have a party?!? Gather some friends – along with their excess stuff – and have a fun evening of trading. When planning this Swap Party, invite all your friends with...

Lightness of Being

Posted in: Get Inspired!, Purge & Declutter | December 12, 2008 at 12:22 am , by CarlaRae Arneson

“Letting Go of Possessions Bares the Endless Possibilities of Living” By Jane Adams, author of Boundary Issues and When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us. Like a snake shedding its skin, I discarded remnants of myself before I closed, for the last time, the door of the Seattle loft I’d call...

Ellen’s Penicillin Method

Posted in: Get Inspired!, Get Organized!, Purge & Declutter | October 17, 2008 at 4:23 am , by CarlaRae Arneson

by Cynthia Townley Ewer Editor, OrganizedHome.com Often, decluttering efforts chase their tails in an endless loop. The home manager declutters the small table in the hallway and moves on. By the following week, a whole new species of clutter has returned to the cleared area. The Penicillin method, devised by...