Kill Inner Clutter Before it Kills You
While physical clutter is not easy to get rid of, it is easy to identify. When you are ready, you can put it in a box and donate it or sell it. Digital clutter, seemingly invisible is also very evident. You see it when you open your email, jump into iTunes or sort through folders [...]
Busting Your Biggest Clutter Fears
You might not actually be afraid of your good china or childhood teddy bear, but clutter can be scary. We are discussing the emotional reasons for holding onto stuff this week in the Clutterfree Course, and the most common one is fear. Letting go of stuff becomes so much easier once you let go of [...]
How to Make Decluttering Fun
Last night during a free clutter webinar with Leo Babauta, a viewer asked me how I make decluttering fun. It’s easy for me to say that decluttering is fun now, because I can so clearly see the benefit to living with less. Maybe I didn’t see it as completely fun in the beginning, but I [...]
A Challenge to Clear the Clutter
Now that the dust from the holidays is starting to settle, look around. Can you relax and enjoy your living space? Or, do you feel distracted and unsettled? The problem might be clutter. Clutter is expensive, time consuming, distracting and unhealthy. Unless you have more time, money and peace of mind than you know what [...]
I Want to Give it All Away
As you might imagine, I am the decluttering ring leader in my family. While my husband and daughter have been beyond supportive in indulging my clutter-free fantasies, if they knew what I really wanted to do, they might run for the hills. Lately, I’m been dreaming about this big, little idea. I want each of [...]
How to Enjoy a Clutter-free Day
Clutter isn’t just the stuff that sits on a bookshelf or busies your counter-tops. In fact, once the clutter-stuff is gone, you really start to notice the invisible clutter in your day. It’s the invisible clutter that interrupts train of thought and peace of mind. Invisible Clutter Meetings. I am a firm believer that weekly meetings waste time unless there is [...]
Clutterfree
Sometimes when you are reading about or hearing about people that have simplified their lives, it can be frustrating that you aren’t in the same situation. I remember when I first started reading about living more simply, I wanted to be debt free and living with less immediately. I overlooked that it wouldn’t be an [...]
50 (more) Ways to Leave Your Clutter
When I read Meg’s headline, 50 Ways to Leave Your Clutter, the first thing I thought was, “why didn’t I think of that?”. The next thing I thought was “I need to use that”. I felt much better borrowing her words when I read the end of her post, “Go ahead, share your stories. After all, [...]
The Sad Story of Justin Case
Once upon a time, there was a man named Justin Case. He was 36 and lived in a 3500 sq ft. home with his wife and 2 children. He had a first and a second, and a 2 car garage. He fit 1 car and it’s $450 payment inside the garage and the other sat [...]
If Less is Best, Why Do I Still Want a Porsche?
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Arvind Devalia, speed demon and blogger at Make it Happen. What’s the one thing you have always wanted? For me it’s a Porsche. Yes, really. Like Courtney Carver and many of the regular readers here on Be More with Less, I aim to live a minimalist lifestyle. [...]
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