Love or hate the quarantine, it’s getting all of us to do things we otherwise never would have done. Folks are saying “A lot of good has come of this.” Well, I’m a tracker and I wanted to track exactly what’s good that’s coming out of my household.

Thank you to everyone who attended any of the Ask-Me/Us-Anything live chats! It’s been fun (and scary) to experiment with a brand new format. I wasn’t sure how you would take to a totally different offering (and onslaught of emails) but the chats were full and it was a hit! You can watch all replays here.

“Quality over quantity” has become a platitude in a world where everyone is familiar with the benefits of minimalism. We utter the term often, but in the same day we fall down walking the walk when faced with a killer sale at our favorite store, or a perceived need for five Old Navy shirts when one will do.

I sometimes have to get very creative in the approach I take to motivate someone to clear off their desk. If you’ve brought piles into 2020 and need an extra push to finally zap them, this might be the incentive you need to clear them off (or to at least remove them just to put them back):

2019 marks my eighteenth year as a professional organizer and the eighth year in a row that I’ve reflected on what I learned as a professional organizer in the past year. I am sure to never repeat a lesson from a previous year.

Serena Williams once said “Pressure is a privilege.” It revealed the perspective of difficulty as sometimes being a privilege. If this is true, then the abundance of things, even things we don’t want, could also be privilege.

Is clutter privilege?