It's probably no surprise that decluttering — your home, and your life in general — can really help keep stress levels at bay. Whether you go full KonMari on your closet or just purge your kids' toy bins from time to time, being able to …
2017 was...quite a year. And if you're anything like me, you find the idea of a fresh calendar for a fresh New Year a great way of wiping the slate clean and getting a fresh start (to use a cliche or two). That's why I poked around to fi…
As a working mom of four kids, with a husband who often works from home too, our home has a tendency to be...out-of-control crazy. I love organization -- the pages of Marie Kondo's book are my happy place -- but over the last year it see…
Over the years, we've figured out plenty of tricks to make the whole laundry process a lot easier. Because oof, who wants to spend more time than we have to doing laundry? It presents a particular challenge for those of us with bigger fa…
You know, we joke a lot about how hard it is to convince our kids to do their homework, because — well, it usually is. But the truth is that we understand -- it's hard to do our own work when we're not in a workspace we love and look for…
I am happy to admit it: Marie Kondo is my guru. I love the concepts of capsule wardrobes, minimalist decor and paring down the clutter in my life overall. There is very little in my home that stresses me out more than piles of stuff -- w…
As much as I love the convenience and ease of digital calendar apps , I'm in the market for a brand new 2017-18 school year planner, because I'm a paper planner girl at heart . I always get a little thrill when it's time to get a new one…
Spring cleaning can be a beast. Just the thought of getting everything tidier and cleaner -- whatever shape your home is in now -- can be so overwhelming, it can be hard to know where to start. So we reached out to household cleaning exp…
I tend to get headaches when I use strong chemical cleaning products, especially when I'm cleaning a small space, like my bathroom, which is why I really do favor green cleaning products under one condition: they have to work. And since …
Having a new baby is completely life-changing in the best possible way...and, in some harder-to-embrace ways too. (Looking at you, complete lack of sleep.) If you're anything like me, a house that's in chaos will make you feel even more …
I'm convinced my kids' toys are spontaneously spawning in the playroom at night while we sleep. Surely I'm not the only parent who can't figure out where all my kids' toys have come from. As a result, I'm constantly in need of new storag…
When my kids were little, their book collections were small and manageable. But as they grew, so did the mounds of books. It wasn't long before their libraries turned into massive piles that made it challenging to find the one book they …
If you're anything like me, the end of 2016 may have hoping that 2017 will somehow offer something better than where we feel we are now. However that's something that happens by planning and doing -- not just hoping. Which is why finding…
We love it when two trusted favorites come together to make a product we believe in -- and that our kids think is super cool. Behold this rad collaboration between fashion icon Tokidoki and ZoLi, trusted makers of cool water bottles and …
Keeping a house clean when you've got work and kids and pets and all of the things can be a pretty ominous task if you think of it all at once. However if you can break it down, and tackle a single chore or maybe even a couple of smaller…
It seems like one of the great organizational issues that all parents have in common is finding stuffed animals storage solutions for those dozens of critters that seem to accumulate out of nowhere. When I was a kid, it was Beanie Babies…
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Remember that trippy British kid's television show Teletubbies ? How can anyone forget?! There was a character named The Noo-noo, which was a vacuum cleaner that went around sucking up anything out of place. Well, sadly, I too hate clutt…
My night stand is a thing of terror -- between the glassware, the paperbacks, the cards from the kids, the remote controls, the empty candy wrappers (what? It's been a stressful election season), the mini body moisturizer samples, and a …
We love pencil cases! They're where we put all our pencils! And pens, and earbuds, and erasers, and... pretty much anything that'll fit. As our kids head back to school , we're getting serious about corralling clutter, and if we can do i…
How do you display all of your kids' precious artwork? It's an age-old parenting conundrum. Between school projects, art they bring home from summer camp, or just creative time they spend around my kitchen table, I end up with way more a…
Let's be real: kids' room clutter is the gift that keeps on giving. And it's not just kids' bedrooms that are problems -- we always find the need to declutter our entryways, the kitchen, the bathroom, the garage, the area around the TV, …
If you've ever wanted to create an organized craft space for kids, whether it's a whole room or just a small area where they can get their creative on, well we've got some fabulous tips for you. After all, I think that as parents, we're …
It was with immense excitement that I ordered Marie Kondo's newest book, Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up . After all, it's been a year since I wrote about her first book, The Life-Changing M…