Do you ever wonder what you’re going to do with your accumulation of stuff when you eventually move to a new home? Does that thought give you hives? I’ve never met anyone who enjoys packing, moving and then unpacking. One thing we can do to make our lives a little easier is to do a pre-move edit.

You know those times when you feel fatigued for no reason? How about those days when nothing seems to go right or make sense? These are the moments when a little essential oil support can make the difference between giving up and breathing through it all.

A sink full of dishes, a never-ending mountain of laundry that needs folding, and a general feeling of overwhelm when you think about tackling it all. This is what we’re going to change. When we were read fairy tales, or watched the Disney versions of fairy tales, as children we never thought beyond the happily ever after.

Welcome to part two of our essential oil series with my guest collaborator, Lindsay Luker of Good Leaf Life “your guide to understanding the ingredients & solutions provided by nature to help you live peacefully & naturally.” Lindsay encourages us to “live a good life” which is what essential oils help us to do.

We all have them. Deep, dark spaces into which we stuff the things we aren’t using…and eventually forget about. During quarantine in 2020 I got in the habit of taking a walk in my neighborhood every morning. Many people would have their garages open and the voyeur in me couldn’t help but peek in as I walked past.

“Special categories” is code for a few specific items I feel deserve more attention than being lumped in with an entire room. The three categories we’re focusing on here – books, papers, and digital clutter – are all things that easily grow out of control and become so overwhelming that we turn a blind eye to them.

Creating a home you love means having the general areas of the home that you spend the most time in be as intentional and chaos-free as possible. The shared areas of the house get a lot of traffic, often with a number of people contributing to the state of the space. These areas benefit from organization specific to their functions.

Our clothes do more than cover us. They show the world who we are and how we feel. Confident or insecure. Boho or classic. They can also be a mask we wear to hide those very things. In our search for identity through our clothing, our wardrobe can consume and overwhelm us.

The bathroom can be deceptive. Unless there’s a ton of stuff all over the counters it doesn’t look like a clutter collector. The clutter is generally well hidden in drawers, cabinets and the linen closet. The categories that come along with the bathroom need to be attended to for clutter reasons as well as health reasons.

Why does the kitchen become so cluttered? There are a bunch of reasons. Food is so central to our lives that we spend a lot of time in our kitchens. Things from other rooms easily get deposited in the kitchen on tables and counters. Maybe gnomes come in during the night and throw stuff around. Hey, you don’t know.