11 Things I Removed From My Home Once I Started Taking Decluttering for Safety Seriously
I started decluttering for safety after a close call at home. Here are the 11 things I got rid of and why each one mattered.
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The Chaos Decluttering Method Is Everywhere Right Now. I Tried It at 64, and I Have Some Honest Thoughts
My granddaughter sent me a video a few weeks ago. It was a young woman, maybe thirty, standing in front of a closet. She opened the doors, and then, with …
Rightsizing, Not Downsizing: The Decluttering Approach That Changed My Home After 60
A few weeks ago, I came across an article about women my age and what we’re doing with our houses. I was halfway through, half-paying-attention, when the writer used a …
9 Habits That Keep My Home Clutter-Free Year After Year
I didn’t sit down one day and decide to have a clutter-free home. The habits crept in slowly, over years. I didn’t even notice I was building them. Some came …
Why Hoarding Often Starts (Or Gets Worse) After 60
I was up late reading the other night. One of those long articles I’d been meaning to get to about something else entirely. And somewhere in the middle of it, …
Am I a Resourceful Saver, a Pack Rat, or a Hoarder? A Quiz I Took Myself
I was up late last week watching Hoarders. I’d flipped past it three times before I finally stopped on it. You know the show. A&E. The slow camera pan, the …
Why Most Widows Hoard? The Conversation Nobody Wants to Have
I’ve been thinking a lot about my friend lately. Her husband passed away almost a year ago. We’ve been close since our kids were little, and I drive over to …
Gen Z Calls It “Underconsumption Core.” My Mother Just Called It Keeping Our House From Filling Up.
I was on the couch the other night, scrolling through a TikTok my granddaughter sent me. The video was a young woman, maybe twenty-five, holding up an almost-empty tube of …
The 7 Uncomfortable Reasons You Can’t Let Go of Clutter (And What to Do About Each One)
There’s something in your home right now that you’ve been meaning to deal with for years. You can probably picture it without trying. The thing on a shelf. The box …
If You Do These 10 Things, You’re Already Doing Swedish Death Cleaning
If you’ve ever stood in front of a closet and made a different kind of decision (not “do I love this?” but “is this still part of my life?”), you’ve …