When I think of clutter-free home, I think of Scandinavian designs. Simple. Teak. Empty spaces. Frank Lloyd Wright (ironically, an American architect with similar design style.) So I asked my friend, Sonya Kanelstrand, a staff writer on Green Living Ideas and Etsy business owner of Kanelstrand to explain Scandinavian home decor to me. Sonya lives a simple life on the Scandinavian coast in Norway that encompasses organic living in tuned [...]

Did you know that “Every year, 85,000,000,000 catalogs, credit card offers, and other ads are sent to households. It requires literally 100 million trees’ worth of paper, and much of it is unwanted and discarded.”? …that’s according to The Green life. I’m guilty – I’m one of those households. I still get some of those junk mail, cluttering my kitchen table and counter. My shredder works overtime and the paper [...]

De-Cluttering your life is not possible without organizing your to-do list. And the easiest way to remember them is to write them down. But when Art Fry – pictured on the left – invented “Post It Notes” using Spencer Silver’s adhesive glue (Why didn’t I think of that?) at 3M, he wasn’t thinking of using them to wall paper his walls or the computer monitor. He wanted to use it [...]

I am the tortoise type of a de-clutterer. I go slow and steady throughout the year and purge when something becomes an eye sore. I must say, I don’t ‘collect’ anything valuable – unless you count glass jars – and I really don’t care too much for keeping old CD’s and DVD’s either. Hello, iTunes and Pandora! Technology changes too rapidly to even think about keeping any electronic gadgets longer [...]

It’s 2012 and there are enough resolution posts on the blogsphere to make my migraine become a clinical case. That’s why I am not going to make one. Resolutions never work for me, I’ll be honest, but I do make a plan to accomplish one thing every year. And when I do accomplish it, I go on to another one. This way, I don’t disappoint myself and I don’t feel [...]