It's probably no secret by now that we have lots of things to get rid in our home at any given time... The list to eliminate has gotten shorter...but I think that oftentimes, when you start getting rid of stuff, you find yourself wanting to just keep getting rid of...
Any time you move into a new place, it seems to take a while until everything finds it's new "home". From flower vases to drinking glasses to clothing, you've got to figure out where to put things (aside from inside the boxes that are piled around) or just get rid of...
During our last few months at the farm, we had the opportunity to purge our house of a myriad of things that we needed to get out of our lives. The things were sometimes things we'd bought but no longer had a need for in our new apartment, things we found while...
As part of the official clean out the farm project which ruled our lives recently, we decided to go ahead and get some order in the barn...and especially the workshop. I don't have too many before photos of what our barn looked like before we started giving stuff away...
More than a year ago, I wrote a post about 10 ways to get rid of excess paper in your life. Although I have gotten rid of something like 30 inches of paper in that time (from magazines to useless paperwork that was laying around, but not including all of the random...
When we bought our farmhouse 6 years ago, the initial idea was to build out the attic in the main house as a wonderful oasis for adults in the form of a rockin' master suite. Believe me, I can still totally see that finished room up there in the space. And we were...
With our moving deadline of July 17th drawing closer by the day, we have been scouring the apartment ads online for weeks now. If you've ever looked for a new place to live, you know it can get confusing, stressful and just downright crazy. Our plan is to see about 20...
Hello. My name is Tiffany. And I am addicted to china & glassware. 🙂 It all started back in 1998 when I left Virginia (home after we moved from Texas), to go off to college at the University of Miami. I moved into to my very first apartment in Miami, all by...
It's no secret by now that we are moving to Berlin and that we plan to move into an apartment in the city to do the whole "city living" thing for a while. It's clearly a pretty major change of lifestyle for us (and some probably think we're nuts -- who knows, we might...
You no doubt noticed the frequency and perhaps even the increased urgency around our house lately when it comes to getting rid of things. What you may not know is that we have now been living in Germany for almost 10 years. Yep, as of July 28th, 2012, Stefan will have...
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