IKEA $15,000 Makeover Reveal

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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5 Hard Ways to Declutter in the New Year

Some tasks you can do in order to declutter in 2010 are simple and other are much more complicated. Even when we understand these in principle, it can be difficult to put them into practise. Photo by: Andrew Larsen 1. Drop a commitment A cluttered schedule clutters up your life and your home. Give yourself permission [...]

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5 Easy Ways to Declutter in the New Year

With 2010 fast approaching, taking a few minutes to go through these easy decluttering steps will go a long way to helping you declutter and get organized in the new year. These are simple steps. While they may not turn your life around on their own, they will give you some quick success [...]

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Clutter-Free Christmas Gifts

I hope you all had a nice, relaxing Christmahanaquanzika! Now comes the hard part: finding space in your home for the gifts you received! I am lucky this year in that two of my three family gatherings (we have a lot of family!) were gift exchanges. Each person only had to purchase one gift, and [...]

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7 Stocking Stuffers for Cluttered People

CatinBasket1Photo by Giane Portal Have someone (or several someones) on your Holiday Gift List that are a little bit organizationally impaired? Here are some great stocking stuffer ideas for the recovering pack-rat in your life. The holidays usually results in a more items coming into your home than going out, and the result is [...]

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