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Collections of Corks, Coins, and Cookie Cutters

Posted in: Get Inspired!, Get Organized!, Keepsakes, Purge & Declutter | November 14, 2011 at 10:45 am , by CarlaRae Arneson

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What do you collect? Coins, baseball cards, antiques, bottle caps, beer cans, comic books, miniatures, postcards, hats, spoons, stamps, thimbles, cookie cutters, teddy bears, frogs, action figures, concert tickets, magnets, or PEZ dispensers… the list goes on and on. Whatever the collection, I’ve seen it all! Some are very valuable...

But, I Might Need It One Day

Posted in: Get Inspired!, Purge & Declutter | November 7, 2011 at 12:27 pm , by CarlaRae Arneson

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I hear this phrase more than you will ever know. And yes, I’ve even said it myself a few times! Everyone fears tossing something out only to realize that, one day down the road, we shouldn’t have. Keeping things around “just in case” makes people feel safe. Here are a...

Get Rid of Your Phone Books… For Good!

Posted in: Everything Else..., Get Organized!, Home Office, On the Web, Paper Piles, Purge & Declutter | October 5, 2011 at 5:49 pm , by CarlaRae Arneson

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While helping people declutter their homes, I tend to have a “love-hate” relationship with their piles of phone books. Why do I love them? Well, phone books used to be one of my biggest forms of marketing for my business! Before internet search engines were the trend, people used to...

Lisa’s Story

Posted in: Get Inspired!, Get Organized!, Kitchen, Paper Piles, Purge & Declutter | August 30, 2011 at 12:10 am , by CarlaRae Arneson

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Meet Lisa… a 37 year old woman from New Jersey. I read about her a few years back in my favorite magazine, Real Simple. Lisa and her husband, Alex, moved into their 1920’s Colonial home about seven years ago. The outdated kitchen with minimal shelving and no pantry created chaos....

Gifts and Guilt

Posted in: Get Inspired!, Purge & Declutter | July 14, 2009 at 10:47 pm , by admin

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Fill in the blank… “If I get rid of _______ that so-and-so gave me, I’ll feel guilty.” We often feel so responsible to be good stewards of things that we’ve been given or even inherited from a loved one. Getting rid of a present feels like disrespecting the giver. But...

365 Things in 365 Days

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

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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...

Ellen’s Penicillin Method

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

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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...