Your whole life, your senior loved one has been responsible, clean, and orderly. Yet now when you visit you see piles of mail, clutter covering every surface, and items strewn around. There are a number…
Oh the shame! You want to have people over, but you just can’t. Like, you literally can’t. Your house or apartment is just too embarrassing. Kat Quinzel is all of us. “I actively avoid inviting…
The winter holidays offer an occasion to spend quality time together with friends and family. But not everyone is keen on having people gather at their place. A survey recently conducted by SpareFoot found that 40 percent…
Halloween costumes are great fun for the entire family, but typically that fun is fleeting—only lasting one day a year. A lot of times we find ourselves shopping for a costume for Halloween and settling…
After my father died, I paid $120 per month to store the items I found in his house – for 10 years. When I finally decided to clean out the storage unit I had been…
You’ve probably got something you wouldn’t part with for a million bucks. Maybe it’s a T-shirt from a 1985 Iron Maiden concert, an Eiffel Tower keychain you bought in Paris or the class ring that…
Does your stuff drive you nuts? Welcome to the human race. Based on our behavior alone, aliens would likely view us as a species of crazy packrats, showoffs, impulse buyers, clutter bugs, sentimental donors and…
There’s nothing worse than moving into your new place only to find that your coffee table hogs the living room, the bed covers half a window, and your dining room table pokes into the pathway…
If you’re anything like me, you own too many shoes. Many of which you’ll probably wear once in your life, twice if you’re lucky. No matter how many decluttering and minimalist articles you read extolling…
After the movers drive away from your new home and you’re perched on a pile of moving boxes, you’ll face a tough decision: What should I unpack first? A recent SpareFoot survey asked people which…
