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The Clutter Connection: Organizing for the Way You Think

Home Organization, Simple Living & Clutter / Andrea Lee

The Clutter Connection explores an important reason organizing systems fail: they are often designed around someone else’s habits. A beautiful system is not very useful if it does not match the way you naturally see, sort, and use your belongings. In The Clutter Connection, professional organizer Cassandra Aarssen explores four organizing styles and explains how personality, […]

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Calm writing desk with a journal, coffee mug, and houseplant in soft morning light, representing reflection and the relationship between clutter and well-being.

Clutter and the Self

Simple Living & Clutter / Andrea Lee

Winning Move: Stop Playing For decades, consumer culture has encouraged us to believe that more is better: more possessions, more convenience, more proof that we are doing well. Malcolm Forbes captured that mindset in the familiar phrase, “He who dies with the most toys wins.” But homes filled beyond their capacity tell a different story. Our

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Hoarding Disorder Insights & Mistakes

Home Organization, Simple Living & Clutter / Andrea Lee

As a professional organizer, I have worked with people suffering from hoarding disorder and would like to share my hoarding disorder insights and a couple of things to avoid. I hope they motivate you to seek help for yourself or your loved one. Hoarding disorder (HD) requires psychiatric care. This level of care is far

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