Keep Clearing the Clutter or Transform It

Step Seven in Real Simple's Article for Dealing with Sentimental Clutter is another great one. Fact is, time changes everything. What once was paramount to keeping forever, like tons of Playbills from all the Broadway shows you've ever seen, might one day kind of annoy you. And that baby's blankie that's falling apart? Might be a cute idea to put in a shadow box with you husband's favorite stuffed animal and give it to him as a great present.

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Give It a New Home or Just Keep One

Steps Five and Six in Real Simple's article on Getting Rid of Sentimental Clutter is, again, sound advice. Two principles that work equally well. One uses that old adage, your junk might be someone else's treasure and the other is to just keep one thing to represent a collection, and then give the rest to someone else as it might be a treasure to them as well!

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The Magic of Photographs and Clutter

Our uncle did this one when he had to clear out his childhood bedroom of all of his football trophies and we thought it was ingenious. He lives in San Francisco now so space is limited, but tucked away on his computer or in a picture book is a great photo of him in his parent's back yard surrounded by his former athletic glory. Sure you can't hold them or touch them, but they can still remind and invoke memory and better yet, they take up virtually no physical space at all.

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Clutter and the Gift of Help

Real Simple's January 2012 article on Sentimental Clutter gives people seven clear steps to dealing with the stuff that we have the hardest time letting go of. Yesterday's tip was boxing it up to save for later. Today's two are to enlist help and to work in short intervals. How does this match up with your personality type? Please read more to find out!

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Clutter is Emotional and Real

This week we're celebrating what is awesome about Real Simple with a personality type break down of their January 2012 article dealing with clutter and grief. So often when we're hired to help someone deal with the crazy cluttered mess their home has become, something catastrophic or life changing has usually happened to precipitate the clutter. The number one life changer, of course, is when someone dies.

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