Organizing for Beautiful Living: Decluttering and Organizing Tips for Working Moms

What to get rid of in your kitchen before Thanksgiving: the six things my clients let go of, the three I tell them to keep, and what to do with family hand-me-downs.
After nine years of organizing kitchens, I can tell you that almost every family lets go of the same handful of things. In this episode I share what my clients get rid of, the three things I keep telling them to keep, and what to do when the dishes came from your mother-in-law, so you can declutter your kitchen before Thanksgiving.
Listen for:
🥄 How to sort the crock of plastic spatulas and keep only the ones you reach for
☕ My mug formula: how to work out how many everyday mugs your house needs
🎂 What to do with the pantry food and baking supplies from a phase that's over
🧺 The Guest Test for kitchen towels, and why donation centers can't take everything
🔌 Why the backup coffee maker and the extra blender are taking up space you need
🔪 Why a chef's knife covers almost everything, and what to do with the extra knife blocks
🍂 The three things I tell clients to keep, including your fall mugs
🍽️ How to start the conversation when the dishes came from family
🦃 Where to start if you only have an hour before Thanksgiving
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Episode 125, How to Declutter Sustainably (Without Dumping It All on Goodwill)
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What works in my house at 53 that didn't at 43: five things I stopped doing, from Sunday planning to waiting for a perfect house before guests, and the one I thing I kept.
At 43, I was folding laundry at midnight so the house would be one hundred percent done before I went to bed. I'm 53 now, and in this episode I share five things I stopped doing in my house, what I do now instead, and the one thing I've kept doing on purpose, so you can check which home routines are working in yours.
🎁 Why gifts, returns and borrowed things don't need a permanent home, and how I get them out of the house fast
🛏️ Why my bedroom doesn't look like a magazine layout anymore, and the everyday things I keep out on purpose
🍽️ How I get ready for guests in ten minutes instead of waiting for a perfect house
📅 Why I moved my weekly planning from Sunday to thirty minutes on Friday afternoon, and got my whole weekend back
🛋️ Why the dishes can sit in the sink while I sit with my guests, and what I call the "reminders of yesterday"
⏰ The one thing I kept: working with my own energy, even if that means dinner at 4:30 some days

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A professional organizer's list of 5 organizing mistakes to avoid, from buying more clothes to skip laundry to Black Friday deals, and the fix I give my clients for each one.
My clients are smart, busy people, and every organizing mistake I see in their homes started as a sensible decision. In this episode, I share five organizing mistakes to avoid that I've watched my clients make recently, and what I tell them to do about each one.

👕 Why owning more clothes so you do laundry less often fills up your closets, and how my client Amanda cut her closet down to two weeks of work clothes
🛒 What to do before you buy on Prime Days, sales weekends or Black Friday: wait 24 hours
🎨 The client who bought oil pastels on sale for a hobby she has no time to start
📦 Why your stuff may not fit after you organize, and how to decide between more storage and fewer things
👟 How to count the steps it takes to put something away, and cut them, so your family puts things away too
👨‍👩‍👧 Why the Clarify step of CLEAR-5 is a family conversation, and when the whole family helps with the Review

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Your house is organized, so why doesn't it feel good? What happiness research says, and how I use the Organizing for Beautiful Living principles to make home happier.
Your house is organized, maybe you even have a cleaning service, and it still doesn't feel the way you want it to. In this episode, I share what happiness researchers have found about what makes us happy, and how I use the five Organizing for Beautiful Living principles to make my home happier, one small game at a time.

🧠 Arthur Brooks's three parts of happiness: enjoyment, satisfaction and meaning 
🏠 What a UCLA study found about how women describe their homes and how they feel that day 
🎯 Why Beautiful Living is the goal and the principles are the process 
🗑️ The one-bag-of-garbage game my family played, and how to start your own Live Light game 
📅 How to keep your progress where you can see it, like the bags at the curb or a calendar on the fridge 
🔁 What I do when I miss a day, or a few weeks go by

👉 For the Live Light game, try my 31-Day Live Light Challenge (free): https://fireflybridge.com/livelightchallenge

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Email me: zeenat@fireflybridge.com

Your bookcase is full and your home is small. Four places to put books: the kitchen, the end of the sofa, shelves shared with dishes, and a closet.
Your bookcase is full, and the books are stacking up on the floor next to the couch. In this episode I share four places I put books in small homes: the kitchen, the end of the sofa, shelves shared with dishes, and the closet. Listen for:

🍳 Why a bookcase at the end of the kitchen island puts books within reach of the kids at snack time, and how to use the end of a counter
🛋️ The end table height that works at your sofa, and how to raise a short bookcase with a tray on top
🧺 The baskets under a four-legged end table for the weekly library haul
🍽️ How a couple who downsized from a ten thousand square foot home put dishes on their entertainment unit shelves, and where their books went
🚪 How adjustable closet shelves hold full book series for kids without a bookcase on the floor
🔥 Where books should not go

Walk through your house this week and look at the ends of furniture, inside closets, and in the kitchen. Each one is a place where a few books could live.

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#BookStorage #SmallSpaces #HomeOrganization #BeautifulLiving #OrganizedHome
Connect with me:

You can find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fireflybridgeorganizing
Here's my website: https://fireflybridge.com
Call or text me: 305-563-2292
Email me: zeenat@fireflybridge.com