Category: Decluttering
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The First Step Is Getting Rid of Everything You Don’t
“The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.” Joshua Becker, The More of Less Most of us try to build the next chapter by adding. A better organizer. A second dresser. One more box in the garage for the pile that still has no home. Becker…
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Don’t Own So Much Clutter That You Will Be Relieved to See Your House Catch Fire
“Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.” Wendell Berry Wendell Berry said the quiet part out loud. Clutter isn’t only messy shelves. It’s the stuff that makes you feel trapped in your own house. If a fire would feel like relief, the problem isn’t the fire.…
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Have Nothing in Your Houses That You Do Not Know to Be Useful or Believe to Be Beautiful
William Morris was a designer, craftsman, and restless critic of the cluttered Victorian home. In an 1880 lecture called “The Beauty of Life,” he offered a rule that still cuts through the pile on the dresser: keep what earns its place, and let the rest go. “Have nothing in your houses that you do not…
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Clutter Is Anything That Gets Between You and the Life You Want to Be Living
Peter Walsh’s line about clutter as a blockage, and one surface this week cleared with a bag out the door.
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The Easiest Way to Organize Your Stuff Is to Get Rid of Most of It
Francine Jay on why bins are not the fix. One drawer, no new organizers, same-day bag.