Proven Ways To Avoid a Chaotic Move and Have an Organized New Home

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Proven Ways To Avoid a Chaotic Move and Have an Organized New Home

 When home shopping, it is so easy to get caught up in the excitement of finding a home you love, you don’t think about how your current life’s contents will fit into your future life surroundings.

A new home is a new lease on life. It is a chance for you to improve your life, not just in newer surroundings or a bigger square footage, but also in simpler systems and cleaner areas, making for a more streamlined and easier life.

But that means you have to plan accordingly and be deliberate with your efforts. At least two weeks before the move, you need to purge your whole house of stuff. Go through every drawer, cabinet, closet, and box, and be ruthless. Read on for more before, during, and after tips on how to move and declutter at the same time.

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Four Mindsets that Lead to Clutter

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Four Mindsets that Lead to Clutter

How does clutter happen? Why do some people have cluttered homes and others don’t? It is true that some people are good at organizing and others aren’t. But what makes them that way? With all of the clients I have worked with, I notice they have at least one of the mindsets that I believe create clutter. In this four part series, I am going to dive deep into the mind frames that are the CAUSE of clutter and give some tips about how to avoid these crap traps.

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The Truth about Junk Drawers

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The Truth about Junk Drawers

Find out why we have junk drawers and how to eliminate it once and for all.
Every house has one—The drawer where everything gets dumped. It’s a mishmash of rubber bands, a few screwdrivers, hair bands, gum, loose batteries you aren’t sure are new or spent, a Metro card, a gift card you know you’ll never use.

Did you ever notice you never actually retrieve things from the junk drawer, but only dump them there?

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So, “Sparking Joy” Isn't Cutting it?

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So, “Sparking Joy” Isn't Cutting it?

Here is the truth: Decluttering can quickly become an overwhelming experience. In many ways, decluttering is much more of a mental activity than physical one. Each item requires you to make decisions, and decision making is exhausting.

The KonMari method attempts to simplify the decluttering process using Kondo’s Japanese minimalism into one easy question of “Does this spark joy?”. But for many Americans, parting with our belongings is not so simple, and may be a very stressful and frustrating experience.

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