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Practical home organizing tips, decluttering strategies, and moving guidance from professional organizers serving Bellingham, Seattle and the surrounding areas.
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Practical home organizing tips, decluttering strategies, and moving guidance from professional organizers serving Bellingham, Seattle and the surrounding areas.
After 9 years of helping people declutter and organize their homes, I’ve learned that sometimes the best way to get unstuck isn’t to ask yourself, “Should I keep this?”
It’s to ask a better question.
So, if you’re staring at a pile of belongings and struggling to decide what stays and what goes, here are 50 decluttering questions that may help make those decisions a little easier!
There comes a moment when the freedom of summer starts to feel less relaxing and more chaotic.
The good news? Getting back into a routine after summer doesn't have to mean becoming more disciplined or overhauling your entire life overnight - we just need to adjust a few systems to make life easier for this new season!
Everyone told us to rush through Tahiti and get to the outer islands fast. We did, and wished we hadn't. Here's our real, family-friendly 17-night itinerary across Bora Bora, Raiatea, Moorea, and Tahiti: what worked, what we'd change, and how we fed a celiac, vegetarian family the whole way.
In most cases, a storage unit isn't solving the real problem. It's simply giving clutter another address.
However…
There are situations where a storage unit makes perfect sense! And when it does, organizing it well can save you time, money, stress, and countless trips digging through mystery boxes!
Life is busy, and most of us don't have an entire weekend to dedicate to organizing.
The good news? You don't need one!
The most long-lasting transformations I've seen haven't happened during marathon organizing sessions. They've happened because people started making small, consistent decisions whenever they had a few extra minutes.
That's the beauty of micro decluttering!
Your garage shouldn't become a storage unit for things you rarely use while your car gets kicked out into the elements.
So with rainy season right around the corner here in the PNW, I thought I'd share the garage organization products we use again and again, plus a few things I would (and wouldn't!) recommend after years of organizing garages professionally.