Declutter Archives

A woman in her 60s rolling a small cart of half-full donation bags toward her front door without lifting them

How to Get Clutter Out of the House When You Can’t Carry Heavy Bags

Last spring, I had a very good decluttering week. I cleared out the hall closet. I sorted two kitchen cabinets. I went through a whole dresser full of clothes. By …

A woman in her 80s sitting at her kitchen table calmly sorting one small drawer with a cup of coffee beside her

Decluttering for Women Over 80: A Gentler Way to Lighten Your Home

When my mother was 84, I stopped by her house one afternoon with a bag of groceries. I called out hello. No answer. I found her in the hallway, standing …

An older woman in a robe holding a mug of coffee at a nearly bare kitchen counter, calm and content

Decluttering in My 60s Changed What Luxury Means to Me

Last Tuesday, I was standing in my kitchen with my morning coffee. (My husband makes it for me every day, bless him.) I wiped down the counter. It took about …

An older woman holding a heavy inherited set of serving dishes with a thoughtful look, an open china cabinet behind her

The Day I Stopped Calling Things an Heirloom

I stood in my dining room holding a heavy set of serving dishes, the ones my grandmother passed to my mother, and my mother passed to me. I’d carried them …

An older woman sitting on a closet floor holding an open shoebox of old handwritten love letters found while decluttering

The Letters My Husband and I Wrote Before Email

I was clearing out the top shelf of our bedroom closet, the one I can barely reach, when my hand landed on an old shoebox I didn’t recognize. I pulled …

A garage corner with a used walker, shower chair, and spare cane set aside, the kind of medical equipment you can donate

Walkers, Wheelchairs and the Spare Cane: Where Medical Equipment Helps Again

There’s a corner of my garage that tells a story. A walker from my knee replacement a few years back. A shower chair we bought when my husband hurt his …

A phone on a couch showing a perfect magazine kitchen while the real lived-in living room around it holds a throw and a stack of mail

I Stopped Comparing My Home to the Ones on My Screen

The other night, I was sitting on the couch scrolling through Facebook before bed. A photo stopped me. Somebody’s kitchen, and it was beautiful. Clear counters, not a thing out …

A cozy living room mid-reset with open windows, a lit candle, and fresh flowers on a clear coffee table, an everything shower for the house

My “Everything Shower” for the Whole House

Last month, after a week that wore me right out, I decided to treat myself to an everything shower. If you haven’t heard the term, it’s the long, unhurried kind …

An overflowing kitchen junk drawer crammed with pens, keys, batteries, and odds and ends, so full it can barely close

Everybody Has One: The Day I Emptied the Junk Drawer

I was hunting for a stamp last week, and I knew exactly where to look. The drawer. You know the one. Every kitchen has it. The drawer that holds everything …

An overstuffed linen closet with folded towels and sheets spilling off the shelves, the sign of too many towels and linens

How Many Towels Does One Woman Need? (Far Fewer, It Turns Out)

The other morning I reached into my linen closet for a clean towel, and three others came tumbling down on top of me. I stood there in the hallway, arms …

Thank you for showing quality clothes on a beautiful model.

Beautiful put together. Need more ideas when buying clothe .may also help to save money as sometimes I buy things…

In almost all the images shown I thought the clothes that were marked with an x looked more attractive and…

Love the outfits on the older lady, does she have a site?

Thank you for posting pictures of real, age appropriate women, not skinny 30 somethings.