Alison's Notebook

Decluttering was never hard for me because I loved my things too much. It was hard because I was scared. Scared that the minute I let something go, I'd need ...

There's a difference between not wanting to declutter and not being able to. For years I thought having a messy room was a motivation problem. But it's not. There was ...

Last spring I went looking for my winter boots in the basement and couldn't find them. Not because they were lost, but because I had to move four boxes that ...

There's a chair in my bedroom that hasn't held a single person in months. It holds laundry. Clean laundry, mostly, the kind I washed and folded with good intentions and ...

I have a bad habit I'm not proud of. For years, whenever a room felt like too much, my first move was to buy a bin. A nice clear one, ...