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I Decided to Declutter My Closet for Spring—Here’s What I Learned
I have been on a bit of a shopping kick lately. As each new purchase arrived I hastily stuck it in my closet, vowing to make room for it later. Over the past couple of months it became clear that I needed to declutter my closet. My sweater stacks were more like piles. I used…
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Declutter Your Gift Wrap After Years of Buildup (A Midlife Reset)
The last subject in my Spring Decluttering series is a sleeper. It’s not as overwhelming as beauty products, not as obvious as the entryway and not as emotional as decluttering your books. The sleeper category to declutter this Spring is your giftwrap! The reason it’s a sleeper? Well, when was the last time you thought…
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Decluttering Books: Why It’s So Hard (and How to Do It Anyway)
What is the low-key hardest category to declutter? It’s books, folks! Decluttering books doesn’t seem hard but most of us are pretty attached to our book collections. Books carry meaning in a way that many other possessions do not. In midlife, the books we’ve accumulated over time can represent the many phases of our lives.…
