Organizing Your Home
When our daughters went off to university, we downsized, as many people do. However, the smaller home we moved into had four bedrooms, because our two girls still needed a place to sleep when they came home over the summer break, and I needed an office to work from. Fast forward several years later, the…
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If you told me there was a book that could turn my beliefs about decluttering upside down, I would never have believed you. Until I read it. They Left Us Everything, by Plum Johnson, is so powerful that it shifted my perspective on decluttering. It’s the true story of adult children faced with the arduous…
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I went to my first auction last week…just to satisfy my curiosity – or so I thought. Although I didn’t expect to buy anything, I found myself unable to resist this cathedral mirror with caged front. It got me thinking about cathedrals, temples, and other places of worship…and how they’re not that different from our…
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I often get lovely emails from viewers of the show ‘neat’ in which they share their journeys and success stories with me. Here’s one I received today that made me smile, and I wanted to share it (with permission) because I feel many can relate… Dear Hellen, I moved to my 1-Br apt. 3.5 years…
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Have you ever found a really good hiding place for something valuable, put it there for safe-keeping…and then torn the house upside-down frantically looking for it later – because you forgot where you hid it? This was the experience of one of my coaching clients recently – yet something really great came out of her…
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