Every two weeks for the past three months, I’ve gone out of town. I’m tired. So tired. And inspired. So inspired. But my body is run down and my fibromyalgia is flaring up and it just feels like my head is moving faster than I can really keep up with these days. But I’m about to try. Ready? If you… Read more →
Category: Cut Your Crap
Finishing The Unfinished: A Creative Footnote to #CutYourCrap
In this week’s installment of Cut Your Crap, in an attempt to help get things moving for those folks feeling a pit constipated in their Spring Cleaning, I shared a few tips from Karen Kingston’s “Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui” one of which was to evict anything unfinished from your home. It’s the part of Spring Cleaning/Crap Cutting/Clutter clearing… Read more →
Purgeday Thursday: Getting Started #CutYourCrap
I know, you guys. I know. Trying to get rid of 450 pieces of crap in 90 days can be really overwhelming. That’s why I’m here for you. That’s why we’re doing this together. That’s why I’m bringing in expert big guns and all kinds of smarter-than-me help in the coming weeks to support our efforts. [Including Andrea Rivers, an… Read more →
It’s Purgeday Thursday AND The First Day Of Spring: Gird Your Loins and #CUTYOURCRAP
Exactly 365 days ago I had an idea. Summer is 90 days away. That’s 90 days to get your shit in order and your crap cut before the official season of relaxing begins. (And here’s my favorite graph if you need to be reminded that getting rid of stuff is scientifically proven to help you relax.) {via unconsumption) So, here’s… Read more →
Purgeday Thursday: Automotive Edition
This month we bought a car, and there is nothing like being forced to clean out your vehicle for sale to make you realize what a disgusting car-slob you’ve become. I mean…it’s not as bad as it was in your early twenties when your vehicle also served as your closet, pantry, makeup counter, and impromptu bedroom, but if you’re like… Read more →
T-Minus One Month: How’s That Purging Going?
It’s Thursday again, and if you’ve been sticking to our pact then you have purged 315 pieces of crap from your life. Congratulations, by the way. If you haven’t been purging like you promised yourself you would — I totally feel you. I mean, I’ve purged every day if piling things by your front door or in your storage area… Read more →
Where Purgeday Thursday Meets Casual Friday; And Not Just Because I’m Lazy!
Since I was too busy purging my ASS OFF yesterday to get a post up, {where by “purging my ass off” I mean “crying in to my taxes”} I thought this would be a great opportunity to tie our crap cutting in with our lounge-wear-wearing (if you’re a fellow lounge wear wearer) and talk about how you cut the crap… Read more →
Purgeday Thursday: It’s About Progress, Not Perfection (How Motivational Am I?)
If you’re sticking to our plan, you’ve evicted at least thirty five items from your life this week. If you haven’t started yet, that’s okay. Everyone gets an A for effort in this program. If you have no idea what I’m talking about let me bring you up to speed: in an effort to spring clean in a way that… Read more →
Purgeday Thursday Is BACK For Spring, And I’ve Been Neutralized…
“New rule. No more buying color without supervision.”– Jessica, editing my closet. She neutralized me. The problem with never getting rid of anything is that unlike you, your stuff doesn’t actually mature or change. It just takes up space and/or clings to happy memories in sad ways {and by “happy memories” I mean “my body”}. The longer I spend living… Read more →
Purging: A Love Story.
My borderline unhealthy obsession with purging is no secret. Purgeday Thursday has covered everything from physical clutter to digital clutter to mental clutter to metabolic clutter, and I’ve learned a lot about you guys and how you like to get rid of (or not) your stuff (mental, physical, digital, and otherwise) in the process. And I’ve picked up a trick… Read more →