Tips, tools and inspiration to support your organizing journey.
We are here to help you get free of the clutter and organized at last!
Let Your Bedroom be a Sanctuary!
Let's take a look at your Bedroom. Is it time for a change? Is your bedroom a sanctuary or a dumping ground? As professional organizers we are often asked, "where should I start organizing in my home? There is clutter and chaos everywhere." Your bedroom is the place...
Six SIMPLE Practices for the New Year!
A practice is an ongoing activity that adds meaning or deepening to life. Choose one new practice just for you. In these fast-paced times, it is easy to forget that I am in charge of my life. I am the one choosing who and what gets my attention. It is not my family,...
Marla Dee’s Top Ten Organizing TIPS!
Reclaim your space, your day and your life! Do you have clutter and chaos in your life? Download our TOP TEN Tips for the Year. Marla will be taking a deeper look at them at the home show and will be speaking each day, so mark your calendars and come! If you can't...
Closing Your Year with Presence
Let the closing of your year be like the setting of the sun! How will you close your year? Will you stay busy, distracted and unconscious? Or will you choose this precious time to slow down, to reflect, to soften and to heal? Let the closing of your year be like the...
Celebrate Life Instead of Stuff
Magic happens when you choose presence over presents! We want to celebrate this Christmas by sharing our family stories... Marla's Story The older I get (I am now 55) the more I am drawn back to my childhood Christmas. Just imagine 10 kids - the noise, the chaos, the...
Gift Wrap Deserves a Home Too
Containers make everything better! Where are our container-lovin' peeps? You all know how much we love The Container Store for all of their savvy solutions, but do you feel the same? Perhaps these holiday gift wrap storage options will sway you. We were in The...
Top Ten TIPS for a Sweet & Simple Holiday!
The best gifts are sometimes the simplest! The holiday season is in full swing and as much as we wish that everyone could move through this time joyfully and easily, we know it will be a challenge. We are here to help simplify this time with practical & meaningful...
What matters most?
Only YOU can say what matters most in your life! December can be a time to slow down (rather than speed up). As the sun sets earlier we now have long evenings to sit, read, write and share with loved ones. Before technology came, we sat around a roaring fire or the...
Gratitude, a simple practice…
Simple ways to give thanks each & every day. Gratitude is one of the most powerful tools for creating peace and happiness in our lives. It can can also support us on the days we feel low and in moving through tough times. So why is it so easy to forget and get...
Our Love Affair with Wunderlist!
Love lists? Dread lists? Try this cool tool!! We are on fire about Wunderlist and we just have to share it!! We have known about it for some time, dabbled with it a bitand then got totally hooked. Because it is available across most devices, we always have our lists...
Clutter Clear Out Celebration!
We are FREE of stuff that was dragging us down and keeping us stuck! We are deeply honored, humbled and inspired by everyone who joined our 30 Day Clutter Clear Out this year. Wow. Thank you for showing up, taking action and sharing your wonderful stories with us! We...
Are you in Hanger Hell or Hanger Heaven?
We are totally serious. Which is it for you? The easiest and cheapest closet transformation is having the same hangers - at least the same color!! Yet, we work with hundreds of clients (some of which have very expensive closets and clothes) who have the hanger hell...
Heavy closet or happy closet, which do you want?
Join us in tackling closet clutter! We've all been there...it's time to get dressed for the day and we dread going to our closet. Perhaps it is stuffed full of clothes most of which don't fit any more. Maybe it fits, but just doesn't feel good. Maybe you have just had...
“Memories live longer than things”
Is your stuff adding to your life - or draining your life? We were recently inspired and changed by a thought provoking man and his message. James Wallman, author of Stuffocation, is revealing our relationship (as a human community) with our stuff and how it is...
Fall – follow nature and let go!
Fall is the time to let go of what is dead, dying or done! Tip 2. Follow the wisdom of mother nature. Every Fall she releases the dead, dying and old stuff back to the earth to be recycled and used differently. We can do the same. Commit to taking the month of...
C&S 30-Day Clutter Clear Out Invitation!
Are you ready to easily and joyfully release clutter from your life? It's time for our annual Clutter Clear Out Online Event and we are getting so excited! We are also challenging you to get REAL about the clutter in your life. To look at your excuses and step back...
Our TOP TEN Tips for Time
Get our most simple, yet powerful, TIPS for time! We've walked you through SEE IT, MAP IT, and DO IT for Time, which each include one of our top tips. If you missed the earlier blogs, read them now. We'd like to offer you one more fabulous tip and an offer for getting...
Time Tip and Tool – DO IT
Write down the 3 MOST IMPORTANT to do's - and let that be enough... We measure our life energy, our being and our doing by measuring time. We all have the same "24 hours" in each day. How is it that some people are naturally able to be more present and...
Time Tip and Tool – MAP IT
Plan your week by your ROLES rather than massive lists. We measure our life energy, our being and our doing by measuring time. We all have the same "24 hours" in each day. How is it that some people are naturally able to be more present and accomplish what is most...
Time Tip and Tool – SEE IT
Time is a treasured resource, but so elusive. Here is a tool to help you touch time! We measure our life energy, our being and our doing by measuring time. We all have the same "24 hours" in each day. How is it that some people are naturally able to be more present...
Travel the Clear & SIMPLE Way!
Want to travel simply, but still feel prepared? After Marla and Kate experienced their first international trip ever and were overwhelmed with too much stuff they wrote about Traveling with Less. Since then they've research and practiced even more to get this...