![]() Ferrari shouted into his cellphone one evening in the run-up to Christmas, outside a store in Chicago where his wife was making an exchange. I stand against the zeitgeist, believing from personal experience that clutter can contribute to the warmth of hearth and home.Īs we stumble to the end of another holiday shopping season, I asked experts in the growing field of decluttering: Doesn’t clutter have an upside? Trendy are homes with minimalist furnishings and stark, cold surfaces-places I find, well, cold. Clutter, it seems, is now evidence of a character flaw. Read: The pandemic has made a mockery of minimalism I do not make the claim that having a messy desk implies being a genius, à la Edison or Einstein or Steve Jobs. It’s not too fanciful to suggest that the clutter on my desk sketches pretty accurately who I am. Possibly I could part with a flashlight, the coins, and the smaller Tibetan bowl, and yet I can’t. In addition to a computer, two telephones, and a TV remote, my desk at home is strewn with notebooks, folders, loose papers, birchbark, a modem, scraps of paper with notes to myself, photos of my wife and kids, flash drives, nail clippers, pens, coins, a stapler, a thesaurus, shopping receipts, a hand-grip strengthener, a blood-pressure cuff, two- and three-dimensional likenesses of Abraham Lincoln, four baseballs, three baseball caps, two 1909 baseball cards, two flashlights, a pair of AirPods, a miniature boxing glove my father gave me before I can remember, one Pokémon card, and two Tibetan bowls.īlame my childhood, if you like, in a small suburban house that was tidy verging on sterile, but I find it cozy and comforting to be surrounded by stuff. The horizontal surfaces in my family room are covered with newspapers, magazines, books I’ve started, books I intend to read, books I want to read but never will, erasable pens, a sweatshirt or two, a soccer ball, a bucket of toy cars, and wayward Legos that gouge my stockinged feet. ![]() Get your 10 tiny tidy-up assignments and she’ll even guide you through your first mini task live during the program. Join author and organizer Jamie Novak when she shares her January Jumpstart 10 day challenge. REGISTER This year keep your New Year’s Resolution to “get organized” by logging on for this program. Wondering what to keep? What to toss? What to share or sell? And how to let it all go for a clutter-free 2022? Then log on for this interactive virtual workshop when Jamie guides you through a tiny tidy up live! Wednesday 1/19 7pm et January Organizing Jumpstart: a 10 day declutter challenge REGISTER If you can’t open your drawers, if clutter topples out of closets, and paperwork covers your tabletops then log on for this de-cluttering program! Join Organizing Humorist and bestselling author Jamie Novak as she shares her laugh-out-loud funny approach for what to do with all the stuff – without getting overwhelmed. Jumpstart your tidying efforts with a live mini tidy-up task during this online program! Wednesday 1/19 2pm et Keep This Toss That for a Clutter-Free New Year Join organizing humorist and author of Keep This, Toss That, Jamie Novak, when she shares the 10 do’s and don’ts for a clutter-free 2022. ![]() Today 1/18 7pm et 10 Do’s and Don’ts for a Clutter-Free New Year Ready, set, declutter! Print your fill-in-the-blank calendar here. ![]() Also, for National Gourmet Coffee Day take 3 minutes & recycle that broken coffee mug you keep telling yourself you’ll fix. Countdown to Clutter Free On Thesaurus Day consider donating a reference book you never use. ![]()
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