Peace of Mind Organizing - Blog

I first published this post on May 16, 2014, when I belonged to a gym. After leaving the gym a few years later, I had quite a few years without a solid exercise routine, primarily doing at-home yoga. But in January 2025 I started ...

I’m going to try something a little different for the rest of 2026: I’m going to focus on re-sharing older posts from the archives.

I’ve been blogging for nearly 20 years (my blogiversary is in November!), and in that time I’ve published more than 1,700 posts. While I still love writing and connecting here, I’m also ready to build a bit more ease into my li...

Eleven months ago, I received a surprise check in the mail in the amount of $1,119.26. I wrote a blog post about it, encouraging readers to open their mail and they might have a happy surprise. Today, I opened an envelope from my health insurance company and it happened again! Today’s government-required rebate check was in the amount of $596.52. So I decided to rerun the...

I store all my food-storage bags in a drawer using some lovely bamboo food-storage bag organizers. I recently bought a large box of quart-size Ziploc bags…more than will fit in the container. Storage is at a premium in my apartment, so I put the overflow in th...

I originally published this post back in September 2019. Due to space constraints, I haven’t done any jigsaw puzzles since we moved to an apartment two years ago. But when I came across this post while perusing my blog today, I was struck by how helpful the information is. And how it could apply to so many other things. (For example, I use a similar approach to...