Best of Your House Machine

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Quick Solutions to Everyday Problems

1. In which I break up with my IKEA organizer

2. Keeping my car clean with a habit loop

3. Transformational drawer solution to manage entry way clutter

4. 3 ways I manage incoming mail

5. Hiding 5 kinds of trash in my kitchen

6. Using boundaries to contain countertop clutter

7. Solving for family shoe storage

8. Pantry organizing: to decant or not to decant?

9. 3 steps to conquer the psychic weight of your iPhone photos

10. Why we hid our TV and have zero regrets

Support for Decluttering

Emotional support:

1. The unbearable lightness of getting rid of things

2. Let’s stop feeling ashamed of our clutter

Decluttering basics:

1. The one organizing step you just have to do

2. How to manage your eco-guilt about throwing things away

3. 5 no-guilt places to take your clutter

New ways of thinking about decluttering:

1. 3 new ways to think about consumption

2. How you spend your time is who you are

3. Where I tell you it’s ok to keep your clutter (sometimes)

4. The tyranny of home makeover culture

5. A surprising truth I learned from selling my stuff

6. Beware the slippery slope of storage

7. Organizing devices are actually clutter

8. The 90/90 trick for decluttering

Declutter Your Brain Series

1. Declutter your brain: get more done with less thinking

2. Declutter your brain: a more organized home with less thinking

3. Declutter your brain: how to get off social media and go news sober

4. Declutter your brain: the minimalist phone

Storage Bin Rants

1. The storage bin fallacy

2. When and how to deploy storage bins (carefully)

Essential Concepts Series - How to think like a machine

1. 5 steps to tame my kids’ playroom

2. What works for Toyota factories can work for your house

3. Tackling dishes: your kitchen is more like a factory than you think

4. Picking your battles: why I don’t fold my kids’ clothes

5. Why you need household systems

6. The cognitive bias that makes us overlook subtraction as a solution

Pondering the Bigger Questions

1. This is a hobby — you’re not a freak if you love organizing!

2. Why are we so attached to Stuff?

3. Why I don’t post (much) organizing porn

4. Shield your eyes from your stuff (yes, really)

Financial Minimalism Series

1. Spending, saving, planning and the basics

2. Everything investing

3. No spend January planning & results

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