This post contains affiliate links. Click here for full disclaimer. I love affirmations. I learned about affirmations from the woman who started it all: Louise Hay. If you haven’t read You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay, that’s my number one book recommendation for the day. I listened to this book on audio from the library a few years…
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When the kitchen counters are decluttered and everything is hidden away, everything is right in the world. When stuff is scattered everywhere, I feel unsettled by the bombardment of reminders of so much to be done. A few years ago I wrote a post about how we kept our kitchen counters decluttered in our very large kitchen (about twice the…
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I used to be a person who overcomplicates things. Ok, I still am. But I’m working on it. One area that I could have gone crazy trying to overcomplicate is the idea of the toy rotation system. I recently realized it doesn’t have to be this complex plan with an Excel spreadsheet detailing each item (kidding about the spreadsheet, of…
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*This post contains affiliate links. Back when I first read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, I instantly became a Marie Kondo junkie. Before that, I was a Julie Morgenstern junkie. My favorite Julie Morgenstern book is When Organizing Isn’t Enough: SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life. I read it years ago and have carried it with…
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Within the past 6 months, our small family of four downsized from about a 3,000 square foot home to one nearly half that size. As my husband and I are both “doctors” (orthodontist and pharmacist, hence the joking air quotes), we felt societal pressure to live in said 3,000 square foot home. It was just this unspoken feeling that we…
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