Author: garijw

I'm not gonna show you the "before" picture bc if you are at all interested in having me help you organize your desk, you know exactly what it looked like. Call me if you need help getting your office to work for YOU. Hire me once to set you up or have me come a [...]

I wrote this blog post ab Passover and DeCluttering in prep for a webinar I was invited to participate in. In it you will see some promo for the webinar but if you read further you will see some thoughts specific to Pesach, stuff and how we deal with it. I am posting it to [...]

As always, I love making house calls. It took 4 visits clearing other areas before my clients were ready to attack their first floor closet. We collectively decided that it was time and surprisingly, we zoomed through much of it. That is, until one half of the couple said, "Whoahhh. Now we are bumping into [...]

Look what piece of info just came my way: WANDS FOR WILDLIFE for Appalachian Wild Urgent Care. I can't even deal with this one! RECYCLE & SAVE WILD LIVES! Old mascara wands are used to remove fly eggs and larva from the fur of wild animals. They work great because the bristles are close together. [...]

Excited to be a part of #ZeroWastePassover: The Life-Changing Mitzvah of Tidying Up. I will be presenting at the March 26th session. Here is a blog I wrote in prep for that. Enjoy!

Thank you to Lisa Joy Tuttle, Creator and Facilitator of the Mindful Self-Management Group Coaching Program for adults with ADHD at the Perelman School of Medicine for inviting me to present DeClutter2DeLight to her students. I learned so much from the participants. These folks were grateful to have found this exemplary program and I will [...]

Yeah, I was pretty surprised when a journalist asked me the question: storage sheds or storage units because my thing, really, is neither. Things have energy and I don't want that energy trapped AND mostly, I want things used and reused and on and on. BUT, I used it as a teachable moment and wrote [...]

No one wanted my client's 50 volume set of the Harvard Classics UNTIL I responded to a post on my Buy Nothing Facebook site. The set belonged to my client's grandfather and we tried antique stores, auctioneers, book stores and more. We were thisclose to just dropping them off at a thrift shop, or worse, [...]

It ain't easy but it can be done. My method is mindful, green and compassionate. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/well/mind/clutter-stress-procrastination-psychology.html