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A Year Living With Less: Intermission

3. March 2010

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This week in "A Year Living With Less," Chambana mom Amy Armstrong meditates on the meaning of stuff.

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A Year Living With Less: Week 7

24. February 2010

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I don't have hours to spend sifting through the landfill of crap in my work area. But all I need to do, says organizational wiz Sarah Welch, is take a few minutes to identify the biggest culprits of the chaos and then put some systems in place to prevent it from happening again.

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A Year Living With Less: Week 6

17. February 2010

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This area is in my kitchen, and ... well, I'll let this video speak for itself. Over the next four weeks, organizational guru Sarah Welch from Buttoned Up will help me de-clutter this space so maybe I can actually -- gasp -- use it as a work space.

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A Year Living With Less: Week 5

10. February 2010

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What's the one thing you can't seem to get rid of, no matter how hard you try? It's an object that you can't give away, and you feel guilty throwing it away (hello! landfill!) and so it just rotates all over your house?

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A Year Living With Less: Week 4

3. February 2010

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My laundry room is right off the kitchen, and it doubles as a pantry. Three years ago we installed a Rubbermaid shelving system to get more mileage out of the space. They were nice and neat for about, oh, A NANOSECOND.

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