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11 Pack-Rat Secrets to Selling on Facebook Marketplace

Want to learn how to turn clutter into cash? Selling on Facebook Marketplace may be easier than you think. Even if you are already a seasoned veteran for selling on Facebook, you may find some ways to make the process a whole lot easier. I had a goal for my clutter. About a year ago, …

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11 Rules for Decluttering so You Don’t Lose Your Sanity

New to decluttering? Maybe you are struggling with how and when to let stuff go. If so, here are 11 simple decluttering rules to help you work through any space in your home…without losing your mind. Are these hard and fast decluttering rules? No.  Think of these decluttering rules as a guide, a guide to …

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9 Genius Laundry Tricks You Need To Try

Why can’t laundry be simple? Seriously. Like you, I’m always looking for the absolute best laundry tips to make life a little bit easier. Real life laundry tips We have a “laundry couch.”  It’s an actual couch in our basement that is used for laundry more often than it is used for sitting on. Sound …

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The 2020 Ultimate Homemaking Bundle Review: Worth the Cost?

My unbiased review of the 2020 Ultimate Homemaking Bundle Is the 2020 Ultimate Homemaking Bundle worth it? Why is the course such a good deal? Or is it? Will I get anything from any of the courses? I mean, it’s about homemaking.  Do I really need help with homemaking? Read further to get the full …

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The Best Strategies For Getting Rid of Your Stuff After Decluttering

You finally decided enough is enough and you are ready to declutter your home.  However, you are not quite sure what to do with the stuff you have been saving and collecting for so long.  I mean, you paid good money for this stuff.  You can’t just get rid of it, can you? Is it …

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The Chore Store: Free Printable

My kids are home. A lot. In fact, there’s no school again until the rest of the year for most. I love having my kids home in the summer. It is one of my favorite times of year, and I have the luxury of cutting back my work to spend more time with them. This, …

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8 Organizing Mistakes That Make Your Home Look More Cluttered

So often when our house is cluttered, we try to organize our stuff to try and make our home look cleaner and more put together.  However, there are some organizing mistakes that can actually make your clutter look worse, not better. In reality, you are nothing more than an organized mess!  Ultimately, the answer to …

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The Ultimate Guide to Declutter Your Bedroom

When your house is a cluttered mess, it can be overwhelming knowing where to start clearing clutter in your home.  My guess is, you have a messy bedroom too. I know I did! Declutter your bedroom first Your bedroom is your place to relax and let go of stress.  It is where you can disconnect …

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40 Great Ways to Declutter for 40 Days During Lent

Lent is a time of reflection and often a time of giving up something as we approach Easter every year.  Lent is 40 days long, and it begins on Ash Wednesday. Use this guide for 40 items you can declutter during Lent from your home and from your life.  This post contains affiliate links for …

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10 Newbie Decluttering Mistakes You Should Avoid

I’ve made more than my share of decluttering mistakes.   I have been selfish, a little too aggressive in my methods and created more bad habits than good habits at times.   I had my share of failures too, and I don’t want you to have to experience these hiccups when all you really want …

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Decluttering challenge to get rid of excess dishes, mugs, toys, etc.

Crazy Effective 5-Day Decluttering Challenge for Quick Wins

Declutter My Home Challenge – A FREE 5-Day Decluttering Challenge to Clean Your Home! Get ready for the Declutter My Home Challenge, a decluttering challenge that will help you see easy results in just five short days. You can start this challenge at any time!!!! Are you sick of cleaning up all the time? Or …

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11 Simple Decluttering Questions You Should be Asking to Maximize Results

When you declutter your home, there are certain questions to help you declutter that you should be asking yourself.  Sometimes the questions that help you declutter are tough ones.  You will be working with sentimental items, items you spent money on, and items that bring you immense guilt when you think about getting rid of …

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How to Create a Minimalist Bathroom with These Simple Steps

For the longest time, I had NO idea how to create a minimalist bathroom. Curling irons, hair straighteners, unused hair products, multiple lotion bottles, half-empty toothpaste tubes, etc.  Does this represent a possible inventory of your bathroom counter?  Let’s not even talk about what may be hiding under the bathroom sink! You can create a …

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A Room a Day Cleaning Schedule (Free Printable)

Check out the Happy Home Cleaning Schedule, a room a day cleaning schedule that allows you to enjoy your home without feeling like you are a slave to it every single weekend or for one VERY long day once a week.  It doesn’t matter if you are a stay-at-home mom, working mom, or anything else! …

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9 Crucial Strategies for Decluttering on a Low Income

Is it possible to declutter on a low income? Maybe you can’t afford to go out and buy something you got rid of today but may need next month. With the whole KonMari craze, people are throwing out stuff left and right. Our donation centers are overrun. Yet, some people are scared to implement what she …

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10 DIY Family Command Center Ideas to Organize Your Home

When you have kids, a family command center is almost essential to keep up with all the mail and crazy schedules for multiple people in your family.  There are a ton of family command center ideas out there.  Some are more functional and some are more beautiful.  Whatever your need, I have collected ten of …

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15 Easy Steps to Start Decluttering When Overwhelmed

I remember when I was too overwhelmed to start decluttering.  It was awful. I had no idea what needed to be done, where to start, or why my house always looked like a tornado came through it.  Maybe you look around your home, and you aren’t happy with what you see.  It is a mess.  …

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10 Home Entertainment Center Organization Hacks

If your home is like most households, your home entertainment center may be the focal point of your living room. Use these home entertainment center organization hacks to prevent a jumbled mess of DVDs, electronics and cords from cluttering up your view. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience (which means if you make …

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11 Brilliant Decluttering Tips for the Messy at Heart

Decluttering tips work great for my friends who embrace an immaculate home and are naturally organized.  You know these people.  They don’t stress at all about cleaning their home.  It comes naturally.  Weirdos. What about my messy people out there? Or what about those normal families that are doing good to pick up every once …

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9 Proven Methods to Clean Out Your Closet Without Regret

If you are thinking, “I need to clean out my closet,” but you have no idea where to start, check out these tried and proven methods to clean out your closet. There is no right or wrong way.  I have tried a few of these methods in my simplifying journey and every time I had …

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Declutter Your Socks Drawer

I make a decision to declutter socks every time I end up with twenty random socks, none with a match. How does this happen?! Often times it’s my kids’ socks. It can be my socks too. We had no system and WAY too many socks. Today is day 1 of our monthly decluttering challenge, and …

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Turn your junk drawer into a useful drawer.

Turn Your “Junk Drawer” into a “Useful Drawer”

The dreaded junk drawer. It’s where we put all the crap we can’t find a place for otherwise. It is the collector of stuff, stuff we hope to hide away and maybe use again one day. Admit it. You have a junk drawer, or maybe a junk closet, or a junk counter, or maybe even …

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21 easy things to declutter this summer! + FREE PRINTABLE!

Want to declutter your house this summer? Yeah, me neither.  😊 I don’t know about you, but summer makes me think of picnics, grilling out, time at the pool, and late nights with family and friends.  Summer does not make me want to clean my house (especially since I live somewhere without air conditioning!)   …

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Don't let your laundry room become a dumping ground like I did. Declutter your laundry room and get your laundry room organization on point!

How to Declutter and Organize Your Laundry Room + Free Printable

Not too long ago, our laundry room flooded. I thought it was pretty well decluttered until I had to pull everything out of the room to clean up. I needed to organize the laundry room…and quickly. The amount of stuff in our laundry room was more than I would have guessed. Laundry room or dumping …

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