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This one simple rule will help you STAY clutter free
Put the mop down, and back away slowly. If you’ve read my previous article on this topic, you already know that the only rule to help you declutter is to keep what gives you joy. Don’t focus on what to throw away, or a bunch of steps and guidelines, but on ultimately creating a space that you love by only filling it with what brings you joy.
By Harper D.5 years ago in Lifehack
Own Each Room
For me, when it comes to organizing— I flail and flop like a fish out of water, wondering why I have to try to learn to breathe air when it’s just easier to go back into the water.
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Lifehack
How A Person With Low Attention Span Can Get Work Done
Most of us have tried every new application, or software to keep us more organized- I have tried them all. I'll put it out there. They weren't very effective for me. Yes, I used some of them for a couple of days, then I dropped them.
By Caleb5 years ago in Lifehack
27-9 Feng Shui Challenge for Spring
Cleaning is not my forte. In fact, on a list of ten items it comes in at number ten. My siblings and my daughter also despise tidying up, and we clean the same way; we put things into piles, then put each pile away. We come by it honestly, our father was untidy, we just never knew it, because my mother picked up after him for 40 + years. When she passed away, we saw him as he really was, he made piles just like the rest of us.
By Marilee G. Hyde5 years ago in Lifehack
A different way of thinking...
I was raised in a house where there was a place for everything and everything was in its place. Yet my brain has always rebelled and it was something I could not embrace.
By Diana McLaren5 years ago in Lifehack
How I managed to clean and organize my desk for the first time in my life
How I managed to clean and organize my desk for the first time in my life! Having a clean desk has never been possible for me. I feel guilty about it, but it doesn’t help. Some people are just naturally messy, I rationalize; everyone knows, creatives march to their own drummer. I come up with cute memes: “a clean desk is the sign of a boring and empty mind”. I drive others in my office crazy, because I wait till they leave for home, and then in the evenings and weekends, I work on their beautifully clean desks, because my desk is too messy to work on.
By R. E. Perry5 years ago in Lifehack
Live Better Cheaper
Live Better Cheaper Having money is better than not having money. Saving money is like earning money. Just ask Ben Franklin. He will tell you “a penny saved is a penny got ”. I will tell you that saving that penny gives you an extra penny to spend somewhere else.
By Cleve Taylor 5 years ago in Lifehack
My Spring Cleaning
Cleaning up after dead people (like in this movie, "Sunshine Cleaning") is pretty extreme. But many of us have had to do just that if we have inherited estates (minus the blood and gore, of course.) My inheritance involved an old brick house filled a hoarder's collection of mess. The property also had an old trailer house that had to be torn down and hauled away, and another old small frame house. To add to the hoarding, there are four sheds/storage house slap full of everything from A to Z and a dilapidated barn...all filled with anything from fine china to old calendars, doors, knick-knacks, windows, glassware, vintage treasures of varying shapes and sizes, and then there is "just junk!" I have wanted to call in the professionals like Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz on the television show, "American Pickers," but I'm not quite comfortable with me and my junk being on public display.
By Shirley Belk5 years ago in Lifehack
You're Smarter Than You Think You Are - Here's How To Unleash Your Potential
In a small gym in Merced, California, I watched my friend and teacher Dr. Chris square off with a kettlebell the size of a small watermelon. He grabbed it, easily swung it up to shoulder-height, and set it back on the rubber mat floor.
By Nate Rifkin5 years ago in Lifehack
An Entropic Woman's Guide To Organization
Someone once told me that there are two types of people, and although I'm more of a "shades of gray" thinker, there is definitely some value in their perspective. I digress, someone once told me that there are two types of people, those who try to control their external world because their inside world is in constant disarray and those in control of their inner world, who don't mind if the world around them is in continuous chaos. I would fall under the latter.
By Alexi Hastings 5 years ago in Lifehack
How to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days
Did you know you can write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days? Yes, you! I know, it’s mind-blowing. It’s almost too good to be true, but trust me, this is the real deal.
By Fiona Nneka5 years ago in Lifehack
How to Budget
I have been an adult for quite a few years now, and every time I call my dad he always asks me the same thing, “have you made a budget yet?” I would always say, “I’m aware of my spending and I don’t actually spend that much.” Let me tell you something, I had no idea how much I was really spending, and I was spending way too much. I was really enjoying my life though until I came face to face with the consequences of my actions. It was sobering and somewhat humiliating. How could I have been so out of touch? Well, guess what buttercup? The first step is admitting it, however, I will never tell my dad that. I then sat down and decided to do the deed. The very thing I rebelled against for years. Let’s walk through the steps, and help you do what I did and hopefully avoid disgrace.
By Jazzy 5 years ago in Lifehack