Posts by minta

I'm a binge cook, so sometimes my freezer is stacked to the brim with ready-to-heat meals, soups, sauces etc... in neat little storage containers, and at other times those containers are all empty and just spilling out of my pantry. ...

Clothes. I gain 60 lbs in my pregnancies and then go back to normal a few months after delivery, so I have a complete wardrobe in at least 4 different sizes. I also have heaps of stuff that isn't nursing-friendly, and "going...

The "It's so easy" thing reminds me of something else I was reading where you make an effort to replace "I have to..." with "I get to..." The key example was with going to work and talked about how people...

I am really struggling with this too as I am currently clearing out a LOT of stuff. On its own, most of it isn't worth all that much, but add up $2 and $6 and $9 and eventually it's worth something. However, the sorting and cleaning...

If you are at all handy, you could build a pigeon-hole storage unit (like a bookcase, but with smaller shelves -- or Ikea Expedit unit) and use them to organize kids' toys, craft supplies, stationery supplies, photos etc... I also...

We keep whatever's currently in use in the closets, on hooks, in baskets etc... Everything off season goes into big plastic buckets with protectors and moves out to the shed until the following year. Blankets we keep in blanket boxes...

DS1's birthday is a few weeks before Christmas, so I no sooner weed through the first round of gifts than more come in. I look at clutter as something that needs to be controlled every day regardless of whether a lot comes in at once or...

I have an alternative approach to the 15 mins. thing when visitors come. I make sure the high-traffic areas and guest accom. looks 100% and THEN I deal with the rest of the house. For me it's a question of where my guests are going to...

On the child / toy thing, I don't think it's ever too soon to teach young children about clutter control. And the way I'm doing this with my 2 is I make them pick up all their stuff themselves (well, I help, but their butts are moving...

We're still in the baby stage (#3 of hopefully 4 due in April) and I've already started getting rid of baby things. I just found we went way overboard for the first 2, and now that they're getting older and getting more "big...