Tidy Living…
Happy New Year! This has been a week of joy for me. There's nothing I love more than turning a fresh page to a new year on the calendar. Oh the possibilities! I get out all my colored pens and highlighters and hunker down to review the year past, then make goals for...
Happy New Year! This has been a week of joy for me. There's nothing I love more than turning a fresh page to a new year on the calendar. Oh the possibilities! I get out all my colored pens and highlighters and hunker down to review the year past, then make goals for the new one. That's my happy place. I'm not a fan of Omicron, but between trying to stay Covid-free and out of the downpour of L.A. rain, I got to stay home all week and ponder all...
"Simplicity simplicity simplicity", the words of transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau, move me and sum up how I want to live. Monday, July 12th is...
Imagine this - it's 6am and you're up for a Zoom meeting for work. Your head is achey from watching the fifth episode in a row of Schitt's Creek...
My kids' room is the one area of the house that I just can't get a handle on. You know in books when there’s an illustration of the child’s room and...
Guilty. I have not been living a very tarry life lately. In rereading the "What is Tarrylife?" post I was like "Oh shoot" - I have been nothing if...
Back to school time has always been a favorite time of year for me. When I was a kid we started school after Labor Day, which seems a bit more...
We rent out our house in Venice when we go on long vacations using Airbnb and VRBO. I'm already pretty good at paring down as a KonMari organizer...
Letting go of sentimental items is the last piece of the KonMari puzzle. It can feel painful to let go of items you've held onto for so many years....
Komono in the KonMari Method is a huge category divided into many sub-categories. It's everything that isn't clothes, books, papers or sentimental...
The foreword in The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter Margareta Magnusson says...