Tag: clutter

Chances are you’ve already had a few private freak-outs about all the clutter your spouse has collected over the years. His vintage record collection takes up way too much space, and her nail polish alone will fill the bathroom vanity to overflowing. From shared expenses to shared shelf space, here’s how to compromise when living with your spouse.

Newlyweds have just experienced one of the most memorable days of their lives, but now the honeymoon is over and it's time to take on their first real challenge as a married couple: moving into their new home together.

Moving can cause extreme stress to even the calmest of individuals—not exactly the way you want to start off a marriage. Keep the stress and chaos to a minimum with this helpful 3-step newlywed moving preparation checklist.

Stress is quickly becoming an epidemic in North America. Conditions like high blood pressure, allergies, migraines, ulcers, skin problems, and more have all been related to stress. That's not to mention the fact that stress has been linked to all the leading causes of death, including heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, and accidents.

The start of each day is the time to feel fresh and confident in your ability to make progress on your daily tasks. This feeling of purpose comes easily with an organized workspace. Disorganization, on the other hand, washes all good intentions away in confusion and stress, and sets the tone for the rest of the workday.

This Valentine’s Day is all about the nookie, and now is the perfect time for you and your spouse to try something new this year by turning your bedroom into a love nest. Don’t worry, even though Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, it’s not too late to reap the benefits of heightened intimacy with a version of your own special playground.

Let’s get down to the basics. The main thing about a love nest makeover is to create a space that’s fun and a little sacred and protected from all of those "outside the bedroom" pressures.

Insomnia can happen to any one of us at different times in our lives. Sometimes it is a chronic sense of worry that can keep us up at night. Other times it is just that we are going through something challenging and sleep eludes us. If you find yourself up at night, here are seven tips to getting a good night's sleep.

1. Keep Clutter at Bay
Everything is energy. We are energy beings and are sensitive to energy around us. If your bedroom has clutter, eliminate that clutter in order to get  a more restful sleep. All of that clutter can disturb you even if you don't realize it.

Adjusting to a married lifestyle can be a challenge. If your spouse has moved into your one-bedroom apartment, you now have double the stuff with half the space. Cramped quarters are uncomfortable and can put strain on any relationship. Without some distance people become irritable, and what starts off as "to have and to hold" quickly spirals into a fight about invading personal space. With these four steps, you can learn to open up your home so you can breathe and live better.

Step 1: Contain the clutter.
To start, cut down on the used coffee cups, unopened mail and messy magazines strewn all over the house. Clutter creates a psychological effect of feeling stuffy and closed in. If you’re drowning in clutter, try this technique:

It’s spring and from the ground up we are all thinking about spring cleaning. Some of us are actually doing it while the rest of us are procrastinating. All that decision-making of what to throw away presents the primary impediment. Besides, throwing out what we have already purchased invalidates the money we spent as well as the intent—could we have been wrong?

Maybe you don’t realize it, but all of your stuff is piling up altering your perception: the various knickknacks, the hundreds of similar photographs, the piles of magazines and mail and the layers of dust. Your space becomes uninviting (embarrassed to let people drop in), which contributes to the loneliness. "Why don’t I have more friends?" Maybe you don’t really see the person who lives with you and loves you and he or she doesn’t see you anymore because the view is obscured. Here are some reasons why de-cluttering will immediately invigorate your life and renew your relationships.