Decluttering our books

Decluttering our books

My husband and I have been together for 12 years — and in that time period, I have to admit that we have rarely gotten rid of things. Instead, we were just constantly adding to our collection. When we moved from Florida to Frankfurt, we got rid of a few things...
Making useless clutter become useful

Making useless clutter become useful

Over the last few weeks, I have been trying to take a look at things we have in our house that I like but never actually use. One of these things happens to be baskets. Over the last 10 years (actually mostly in the last 6 since we moved to the farm), I have collected...
Attacking the kitchen drawers

Attacking the kitchen drawers

In keeping with my attack on the kitchen, I recently realized that also our silverware drawers in the kitchen are fairly organized, there is still a bit of chaos in there. So when we purchased the plastic tubs for the spice storage, I also grabbed a few random small...
Decluttering & organizing my spice cabinet

Decluttering & organizing my spice cabinet

The last couple of weekends, we have been able to make a few really good pushes forward with decluttering and organizing our home. They were all somewhat small projects, but in the grand scheme of things, they make a huge difference. One of the things I’ve been...
Decluttering Progress in 2011

Decluttering Progress in 2011

We have had a lot going on here in the last year or so, and I haven’t been able to devote all the time I’d like to this project, but we have started decluttering a few spaces around here. There is just so much stuff that we have collected over the last 10...