Bringing Order to the Holidays

31 Day Challenge: Day 28 Halloween is only 3 days away. And once Halloween is over, it’s November and the new year will be here before you know it. Now is the time to get a head start and declutter your home. If that’s too big of a job, concentrate on the “public” areas of […]

Bringing Order to Bill Paying

31 Day Challenge: Day 27 Paper clutter can be a huge problems for ADDers. Most of us probably get an average of 5 pieces of mail, 6 days a week. A lot of it is just junk mail, but there are important items in there as well. Ideally, you should only handle each piece of […]

Old Ways, New Ways

31 Day Challenge: Day 23 When you are trying to establish some order in your life, one of the things that you have to do is to change your ways. My hero, Albert Einstein, once said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. How often […]

The Time Capsule

31 Day Challenge: Day 20 I spent the entire day today decluttering that mess around my desk that I showed you on Day 7, The High Price of Disorder. I wish I had a picture to show you, but I always write at night when the lighting is bad. Let’s just say that the end […]

10 Minutes to Order, Restored

31 Day Challenge: Day 18 Restoring order to your home doesn’t have to take days. Not all at once anyway. Today was a day of cooking in my kitchen. My son, Andy, is a great cook, but a messy one. And he uses too many anchovies. I believe that I completely cleaned the kitchen, including […]

Real Life is Messy

31 Day Challenge: Day 17 I like to call this photo “Still Life with Caulk”. Isn’t it lovely? Sorry for the blurriness; I had to use the camera on my phone. Can you see which side of the table belongs to me and which side belongs to my husband? I bet you can. All month […]