by Sheila Carroll | Jul 23, 2026 | Declutter and Organize Your Home, Organizing to Improve Productivity
Whether you call it a berging, a schuur, a storage closet, or a garage, summer and autumn are the easier seasons to tackle it than the middle of a grey January. You’re not fighting the weather to prop the door open, and you’ve actually got the daylight to...
by Sheila Carroll | Jul 16, 2026 | Declutter and Organize Your Home, Organizing to Improve Productivity
“Does X spark joy?” Sometimes when I begin working with a client and introduce the idea of asking whether something “sparks joy,” I’m met with a bit of a blank stare. Appliances, picture hooks, and a drawer of spare buttons are rarely...
by Sheila Carroll | Jun 17, 2026 | Declutter and Organize Your Home, Moving & Downsizing
Letting go on your own terms There’s a version of decluttering that happens after someone has passed away, when grieving children sort through decades of belongings, trying to guess what mattered and what didn’t. That’s a real and difficult process —...
by Sheila Carroll | Mar 22, 2026 | Declutter and Organize Your Home
What It’s Like to Work with a Professional Organizer When It Makes Sense to Work with a Professional Organizer Let’s be honest—most people don’t dream of spending their Saturday wrestling with clutter. Decluttering sounds simple enough in theory . . . until you start....
by Sheila Carroll | Mar 21, 2026 | Declutter and Organize Your Home, Organizing to Improve Productivity
Declutter first — it tackles root cause, not just symptoms If a space feels hard to manage, it’s often not a storage problem — it’s a volume problem. When things feel cluttered, it’s completely natural to think:“If I just had better storage, this would work.” So we...
by Sheila Carroll | Nov 17, 2025 | Declutter and Organize Your Home, Organizing to Improve Productivity
Decluttering Old Tech Moving from Canada to the Netherlands forced me to face a universal truth: nothing reveals clutter faster than weighing it. So I gathered my abandoned phones, mystery cables, and long-forgotten Kindles — the whole “tech graveyard” — and dealt...
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