These are a few of the little purchases I’ve made and loved lately, including kitchen organizing tools, a cooling weighted blanket, some cherry bitters, and (peak Rona!) some home haircutting tools.
What Little Things Are You Loving Lately?
How to Preserve Makeup You’re Not Using
Wondering how to preserve makeup you’re not using, either during quarantine or another fresh-faced period (like, perhaps, maternity leave)? Here are the best tips…
How to Store Jewelry: Tips and Products
These are all my favorite ways to store jewelry — what are yours?
Three Different Ways to Clean Your Closet
We’ve talked about a lot of different methods for organizing your closet over the years, so I thought I’d round up the three major ways to clean your closet. Have you undertaken a closet organizing project lately? Do tell…
How Do You Organize Your Refrigerator and Pantry?
Kim Kardashian West just posted a video of her refrigerator that made my jaw drop… so I thought, let’s all share our best fridge organization ideas!
Weird Organizing Tip: Use iPhone’s Camera Albums for Lists, Ideas, and To-Dos
I’ve recently discovered an easy new way to keep track of various lists, ideas, and to-dos, so I thought I’d share my latest iPhone organization tip…
How Often Do You Clean Your Office Cabinets?
How often do you clean your office cabinets or desk drawers — or move files into storage, or send them to the shredder? On the home front, how often do you clean your pantry and freezer — and what other kinds of tasks do you do in this irregular cleaning/purging cycle that feels so good?
How Often Do You Declutter Your Wardrobe?
Here’s a fun question for today: how often do you declutter your wardrobe? Do you have a “one in, one out” policy? How do you deal if you have a bunch of clothes that will totally fit if you just lose 5 or 10 pounds (and yet you never seem to lose those 5 or … Read More about How Often Do You Declutter Your Wardrobe?
Hobby Wednesday: How to Get Started with Digital Photo Books
On one of our older Hobby Wednesday posts, a reader noted that making digital photo albums were her jam — and I thought OH YES, me too. I made some great ones when I was younger with physical photos and mementos (my teenaged summer at Harvard Summer School is TOTALLY well documented, as is my … Read More about Hobby Wednesday: How to Get Started with Digital Photo Books
Tales from the Wallet: How Do You Store Your Bills, Receipts, and More?
Here’s today’s topic, ladies: What are your best tips on how to store bills and otherwise organize your paperwork? How do you deal with the mix of paperwork, electronic documents, emailed receipts, and more? I describe my own record keeping system below, but I thought it’d be fun to see what other people do… I … Read More about Tales from the Wallet: How Do You Store Your Bills, Receipts, and More?
How to Schedule Repeating Tasks
As the New Year starts, I thought it might be fun to talk about how to schedule repeating tasks — specifically, what yearly things do you do, or have built in to your year (month? quarter?) so that you can help stay on top of all the various tasks that build up, whether for your … Read More about How to Schedule Repeating Tasks
How to Organize Your Personal Email
Readers, what are your tips on how to organize your personal email(s)? Do you use tools like Unroll.Me to keep clutter low, a ton of Gmail filters, or some other trick or hack? Do you practice a zero inbox policy with personal emails — and how do you keep from getting overwhelmed? (Psst: I know … Read More about How to Organize Your Personal Email
