There are so many benefits of decluttering. From more time in your days and space in your home to getting better sleep at night! In today’s post, I’m sharing a huge list of the benefits you can experience by clearing the clutter from your home and your life. If you’re ever needing an extra boost of motivation to start decluttering or continue working to clear the clutter, you’ll find it here! These benefits of decluttering are available to anyone willing to put in the time and effort to clear the clutter and simplify their home and their life. I truly feel like there’s something for everyone o ..read more

Sometimes when you’re working to simplify and streamline your home, the most impactful changes come from shifting your perspective. Adjusting the way you think about “stuff”, habits and previous patterns to help you make progress in simplifying your home. The more you can shift your perspective, the easier it is to let go of the clutter, the excess and the distractions. Embracing new ways of thinking can help simplify and streamline your home to create a calmer home you love spending time in. In today’s post, I want to share 6 powerful perspective shifts that can help you simplify and streamli ..read more

Today’s post is all about what you can do after decluttering to stay clutter-free. Things you can do to maintain your decluttering efforts and keep the clutter from coming back. Decluttering your home can be an incredibly liberating experience. It clears your space, lifts your mood, and creates room for new possibilities. However, maintaining that clutter-free environment requires more than just a one-time purge. To ensure your home stays organized and clutter-free in the long term, it’s essential to establish effective habits and systems. Here are five tips to help you stay clutter-free afte ..read more

I first started decluttering our home well over a decade ago. When, believe it or not, a spilled bottle of lotion propelled me to start ruthlessly decluttering and simplifying my home and life. Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about decluttering. Today I want to share 6 things I wish I knew before I started decluttering. Knowing these things now, the process of decluttering has become a lot easier and less stressful. Knowing these things has helped me become more confident in my decluttering decisions. And helped me be able to declutter more effectively. If I could go back in time, here are ..read more

If you’re trying to declutter and simplify your home, but your spouse isn’t on board it can be difficult for both of you. It can leave you feeling stuck, frustrated and resentful. But decluttering doesn’t have to come between you and your spouse. In today’s post, I’ll share 15 strategies you can use to figure out how to simplify and declutter when your spouse doesn’t want to! How to declutter when your spouse doesn’t want to 1. Have open and honest conversations about decluttering Open and honest communication is important for any relationship. If you’re trying to declutter but your spouse do ..read more

Minimalism sometimes gets a bad reputation as being cold, stark or too extreme. But minimalism as a lifestyle doesn’t have to be any of those things! In today’s post, I’m sharing 11 simple minimalist lifestyle tips to help you explore minimalism and start creating a version of a minimalist lifestyle that feels right for you! These minimalist lifestyle tips give you some suggestions of ways to begin exploring minimalism. They let you ease into a minimalist lifestyle by trying out a few ways to simplify your home and your life. This post contains affiliate links. Click here for our full disclosu ..read more

Today I’m sharing my recommendation of 10 awesome books to inspire a simpler life. I’m including 5 of my favourite simplifying and minimalism books I’ve read and loved. As well as 5 books on minimalism and simplifying on my reading list that I can’t wait to dive into! One of my favourite places to find inspiration and motivation to declutter, simplify and embrace minimalism is books. When I first started decluttering, I devoured books, blogs, articles and anything else I could find on the subject. These resources helped me confirm the benefits of choosing less when I first began declutte ..read more

I’ve found one trick that makes it a lot easier to ruthlessly and effectively declutter your life and home. And that trick is the “maybe box”! The maybe box is one of my favourite decluttering tools ever. Making it so much easier to make brave, bold and ruthless decluttering decisions. Without fear or fear of regret holding you back from letting things go! If you’re looking for a way to declutter your life and home more ruthlessly, I highly recommend you give the maybe box a try. In today’s post, I’ll share exactly what a maybe box is, the benefits of using one, and how to effectively use it t ..read more

Minimalism is a concept that has been gaining popularity lately. And for good reason! There are many benefits of living with less. But there are a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings about what a minimalist lifestyle is exactly, and what it’s not. In today’s post, I want to address what is minimalism, plus 8 things a simple minimalist lifestyle is not as well. Minimalism is one of those concepts, much like simple living where it can mean different things to different people. And that’s ok. Minimalism is something that should be personal and unique to the person living it. There is ..read more

This post is all about the common reasons we keep clothes we don’t wear or love. And how to move past these common challenges to simplify and declutter your wardrobe. Many of us (myself included!) sometimes struggle to let go of clothes, even those we know we no longer love or wear. And in noticing this, I realized there are some common reasons why we keep clothes we don’t wear anymore. Common stumbling blocks that are easy to get tripped up on when trying to purge your closet. These common reasons that make it difficult to let go of clothes you no longer love or wear can be what’s holding you ..read more