Create a Love Box

It’s Valentine’s Day! Are you feeling all mushy, gushy, and sentimental inside? If so, then now is the perfect time to create a special keepsake “Love Box”. Here’s how… First, collect all the many love letters, mementos, and tokens of love that you have lying around your house. Do you...
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Collections of Corks, Coins, and Cookie Cutters

What do you collect? Coins, baseball cards, antiques, bottle caps, beer cans, comic books, miniatures, postcards, hats, spoons, stamps, thimbles, cookie cutters, teddy bears, frogs, action figures, concert tickets, magnets, or PEZ dispensers… the list goes on and on. Whatever the collection, I’ve seen it all! Some are very valuable...
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The Black Light Experiment

It’s Halloween! To celebrate this frightful holiday, I thought I’d share a fun (but icky) exercise to do next time you clean your bathroom. I warn you: this might be scary. Oh, and if you have kids, let them join in… all kids love gross stuff! First purchase a black...
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Get Rid of Your Phone Books… For Good!

While helping people declutter their homes, I tend to have a “love-hate” relationship with their piles of phone books. Why do I love them? Well, phone books used to be one of my biggest forms of marketing for my business! Before internet search engines were the trend, people used to...
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Lisa’s Story

Meet Lisa… a 37 year old woman from New Jersey. I read about her a few years back in my favorite magazine, Real Simple. Lisa and her husband, Alex, moved into their 1920’s Colonial home about seven years ago. The outdated kitchen with minimal shelving and no pantry created chaos....
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