Category: Growth
Clutter Is Data: What Behavioral Science Can Teach Us About Organizing
Corinne Berry, PhD When I design organizing systems, the goal isn’t perfection—it’s real life. I look at the space, what it needs to do, and the routines already happening the... Read More
Swedish Death Cleaning for People Who Aren’t Downsizing (Yet)
Kelly Brask, CPO® If you’ve seen the phrase Swedish death cleaning pop up online and thought, Nope. Too morbid. Not today! I get it. I’m a Certified Professional Organizer® (CPO®) who lived in ... Read More
Taming Stress in the Body: How Clutter Keeps Us on Alert
Melinda Rathkopf, MD, MBA, and Ashley Sewall, PhD May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to consider how mental well-being is shaped not only by our thoughts, but also by our environm... Read More
3 Ways to Buy Less After You’ve Decluttered and Organized
Sarah Metcalf You tackle your big organizing project, you declutter, you install the systems, you finally get things the way you want them in your home, then three months later you loo... Read More
When Motivation Is Not Enough…How To “Jumpstart” Your Organization Project
Michelle Zorbas, CPO®, CWC We can have plenty of good reasons and motivation to get something done, and yet starting still feels impossible. Maybe you know you need to go through boxe... Read More
Organizing with Compassion
A Soft Reset for Seniors and People with Physical and Emotional Challenges Pat Rose Organizing is often portrayed as a purely practical task—sorting, labeling, and tidying up physical spaces. But fo... Read More
When Healing Finds Its Way through the Clutter
By Hadiyah R. Alexander If someone had told me about a little over a year ago that I would be saying goodbye to my mother for the last time, I would have laughed, shaken my head, and walked away. T... Read More
The Pre-Holiday Purge: How to Help Kids Declutter before December (Without the Tears)
By Zeenat Siman The Calm before the Santa Storm Every November, something shifts. The calendar fills, the closets fill, and suddenly every flat surface starts collecting things that weren’t there a ... Read More