Many of us remember the day we walked across the podium and received our college degree. Some of us went on to even more memorable graduate or professional degree moments. However, all those moments put together will not equal the pride and joy of watching my child receive that college diploma. My daughter, Julianna, received her B.S. from the University of Mount Union in Early Childhood Education. Not less than a month later, she was offered a job at her Elementary School (Incarnate Word Academy) as a fourth grade teacher. It has been a lightening quick 4 years that was filled with hard … [Read more...]
The Art of Decluttering: Part IV
In the last issue, I told you about the decluttering of dishes process I had started, using the Marie Condo’s method called The Art of Decluttering. Marie is the Japanese author that made this process popular on Netflix, in magazines, and in newspapers. The final, and most difficult, decluttering area for me was the books, papers, notebooks, etc. We stopped the decluttering process after this area for now but, there is one more area that I have to tackle which are souvenirs, knick knacks and memory-related items. We will revisit this area after my daughter graduates from college and comes … [Read more...]
The Art of Decluttering: Part III
In the last issue, I told you about the decluttering of clothes process I had started, using Marie's Condo’s method called The Art of Decluttering. Marie is the Japanese author that made this process popular on Netflix, in magazines, and in newspapers. My professional organizational coach, Andrea Sharb, Kay and I started the decluttering process with clothes then went to dishes. I have often said that I have more dishes than most restaurants. After years of collecting glasses, souvenirs, and pots and pans from my mom, I finally had enough. Again, as with the clothing, every dish, pan, … [Read more...]
The Art of Decluttering: Part II
In the last issue, I told you about the decluttering process I had started, using the Marie Condo’s method called The Art of Decluttering. Marie is the Japanese author that made this process popular on Netflix, in magazines, and in newspapers. My professional organizational coach, Andrea Sharb, Kay and I started the decluttering process with my clothes. We took every piece of clothing I had anywhere in the house and laid them down on my daughter’s bed (she is away in college). I looked at each piece of clothing and asked myself if I “loved it or not.” If not, off it went into the donation … [Read more...]
The Art of Decluttering
I am sure many of you have a “hoarder” somewhere in your life. A parent, grandparent, spouse or friend (surely not you). I never watched the TV show but have heard this is sometimes a serious disorder. So as not to progress into this diagnosis, I have been decluttering for a few years now. To be exact I have been dabbling in decluttering. Well enough was enough. I recently hired a coach, Andrea Sharb, to help me with this process of letting go and developing systems to begin decluttering, giving away, organizing and learning to live with less. I was wasting way too much time looking for … [Read more...]