Why I’m Doing a Refresh of the 50 Weeks to Organized Project

Really, I could just post these quote-unquote “Before” pictures and call it good on posting today. But I’m nothing if not a little long-winded, so we just can’t have that. A brief summary for those of you who haven’t been reading this blog since 2013: Five years ago, I decided to tackle my clutter habits …

How I Taught Myself to Be Tidy (in 3 Steps!)

Ask any person who has ever lived with me (especially my college roommates and/or my mother), and you will quickly learn that I was not exactly the cleanest person growing up (or throughout my college days). While I’ve always known HOW to tidy up and the importance of BEING tidy, I’ve just always had a …

My Weirdly Effective Technique for Keeping our Table Clear of Clutter

  ***CONFESSION*** Our kitchen table (and all of our kitchen counters, for that matter) are almost always filled with clutter of some kind. After my 50 Weeks to Organized Project back in 2013, I got really good at keeping certain surfaces clean, like the bathroom counter–a major win–and the tops of “decorative surfaces,” like the …

Life After My 50 Weeks to Organized Project (+ An Apartment Tour)

The fact that the years pass by quickly is a truth pretty much every adult has internalized, and it seems like every other week, I hit the anniversary of some momentous event in my life with yet another year tacked onto it. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how it’s been over a year …

50 Weeks to Organized: Week 49

  I know that 2013 is over (and thus, also, is my “50 Weeks to Organized” project), but what I didn’t tell you was that I still haven’t finished posting about my last two projects. So today, you get my second-to-last project of the year (Jewelry) that I had been putting off until the end only because I …

50 Weeks to Organized: Week 47 (Photos)

Here we are, mere days away from the end of the year, and I’m still tying up the last of my organization project for the year. I would have posted on today’s subject (photos) about 2-3 weeks ago, but you’ll see later on in the post why I waited. For basically my whole life (well, …

50 Weeks to Organized: Week 39

  So you might have thought I’d forgotten all about my 50 Weeks to Organized project— But nope. In fact, I myself was kind of freaking out about the whole thing the other day, thinking there was no way I’d get everything done in the next 11 weeks, but then I realized something: after the …

50 Weeks to Organized: Week 29

Seeing as I saved most of my Big Projects for summer, it probably seems as though I haven’t been focusing as much on simplifying and de-cluttering as before, but that would be grossly untrue: in fact, this room I’m about to show you has been a constant project for me since I decided to do this challenge …