Spring is the perfect time to clear out unused items and give forgotten corners a good scrub. However, setting out to clean your entire house can be a challenging task that requires patience and organization. To help you reach every nook and cranny, consider this handy checklist from the experts at Best Pick Reports. Kitchen […]
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Simplifying Your Next Home Organization Project
There are many proven benefits, both mental and physical, to household organization. People tend to sleep better in a clean room, enjoy preparing meals more in a clutter-free kitchen, and feel calmer when they sit at a tidy desk to begin a task. And, according to feng shui, removing items you don’t like or use […]
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Stockings and Tree Skirts and Candles, Goodbye!
Although Christmas comes just one day a year, the preparation for it, for some, begins in earnest in the fall. With the vast amounts of activities, food prep and decorating to be done, sometimes as early as September! When it takes what feels like a Herculean effort to get our homes and hearths ready for […]
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For Every Thing, There’s a Season
In recent memory, not much has been pleasant. We have all struggled, suffered and persevered over the past 18 months or so. Gratefully, we finally seem to be coming out the other side of the worst experience — older, wiser and, for many of us, no longer the same size. While some are better than […]
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How to Tackle Deep-Cleaning Tasks Around the House
You know it must be done, but you just don’t want to. It’s been on the to-do list for far too long. You may try to ignore it, dodge it or even cover it up. It’s your mess nemesis — your least-favorite cleaning task — and you dread having to tackle it. Not all Cleaning […]
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Swedish Death Cleaning
By now you are probably familiar with the KonMari method of organization, made popular by Marie Kondo and her show, “Tidying Up.” Move over, Marie, there’s another method! And it is, by design, the last one you will ever need. This method is targeted specifically to those 65 years of age or better. Swedish death […]
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Spring Cleaning Tasks You Might Have Missed
Every year, as the flowers begin to pop up, the grass gets greener and the birds start tweeting, thoughts turn to shedding the drudge of winter, cleaning up the house and enjoying spring. While annual spring cleaning is a ritual many observe, there are some tasks that you might not have thought of that really […]
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Is There Such a Thing as Too Organized?
With downsizing, “finding joy” in your belongings, and the tiny-house phenomenon, organizing is on the front page of current trends. But how much is enough? And can there be too much? When beginning any organizing project, whether it be a whole house, top-to-bottom project, or just a one-closet or one-room small project, the first thing […]
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Your Month-by-Month Guide to an Organized, Minimized and Stress-Free 2019
The New Year is a time of reflection, planning and resolutions. A grand idea — and usually an abysmal failure. Many people have organization on their New Year’s resolutions list, especially with the new trends toward minimalism. But most plans are doomed without proper planning and time management. Organization, for many, seems an impossible task. […]
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