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Getting rid of clutter is exhilarating, and the more clutter you have, the better it feels to get rid of it. Here’s a list of questions to inspire action: are your drawers so tightly packed that they’re difficult to open and shut? do items often tumble out of a closet when you open the door? do you …
Judging from the stacks of books on the topic, apparently a lot of people turn to feng shui to tame their clutter. A few years ago, my sister, a TV writer, told me that everyone in L.A. was reading the feng shui book, Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life. She read it too, and called me in a dark mood. …
Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: Tips…for clearing closets. April 12’s post has advice for clearing clutter, but I’m so entranced with this topic that I can’t resist including some more suggestions: Remove all extra hangers and keep just a few spares. You don’t need fifty extra hangers, and they take up an astonishing amount of room. …
A friend thoughtfully set up lunch so I could meet her friends Jesse Garza and Joe Lupo. They have a consulting business called “Visual Therapy” to help clients edit their closets and buy clothes that suit them. It was a fabulous lunch—not often do I discover people who want to discuss the finer points of closet-clearing by the hour. It’s …
I’ve been resisting the urge to post repeatedly about the glories of clutter-clearing. Few things match the exhilaration of bringing order and space into a crowded room, and I’ve been begging my friends to let me help them clear their closets; I crave the buzz that badly. As part of that obsession, I keep extolling the benefits of two anti-clutter …
