Archive | January, 2010

IKEA $15,000 Makeover Reveal

28 January 2010

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Last Summer, IKEA Canada held their “Any Space and be Beautiful” contest. People sent in photos of their boring, unlovely, or just plain icky spaces, and could get people to vote for them. The votes didn’t mean anything, though (sad!) as the winner was picked by random draw. The winner was announced [...]

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Putting Things Away

25 January 2010

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This is a guest post by Ito and LM of Clutterbrained as part of a post swap. You can see my take on the subject over at their blog later today now! -Caitlin Hello ClutterCubed readers! We at Clutterbrained are thrilled to visit and have the opportunity to do a guest post here. We are [...]

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Do I Need a New House Already?

21 January 2010

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My husband received an odd letter in the mail today. A slim little envelope showed up, bearing a (local) return address that we’d never seen before. In it was a very polite, handwritten request to buy our house. Photo by dulcie and used under Creative Commons The reason this is odd is that our house is not [...]

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Writer’s Block is Good for Decluttering

18 January 2010

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I sat down to write this post yesterday and got stuck. I’m not yet used to the new Mondays-and-Thursdays posting schedule, though so far so good. I couldn’t think of what to write about. I poked around on the Internet for a bit, looking for any new research studies or related breaking news, but [...]

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Bloggers to Watch in 2010

14 January 2010

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2009 is starting to seem like a distant memory already, and 2010 is still brimming with potential for decluttering and getting organized. There are many great bloggers on these topics, but rather than list the big names, I’d like to highlight some of the ones you may not have heard of yet. Here [...]

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