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The Useful Witch Here to help! I offer home decluttering and organization services with intuitive insight. Helpful home strategies that work for YOU.

Make more physical space and what the mental clarity follow.

10/16/2026

It can be easy to be super overwhelmed by everything in your house and completely freeze or walk around just throwing things away. Spend a few days REALLY dialing in which spaces make you feel extra dis-regulated. It might be walking into the front door and tripping over shoes. You might be immune to dirty dishes in your sink OR that might make your skin crawl.

This is a personal list I call the “Hit List”. The places that if you hit them with a few minutes of focused tidy intention— they pay off the biggest.

You can see my well worn list that lives above the charging station— I made this YEARS ago and it still helps me. Similar to labeling things so you know where they will go— a Hit List can simply give you a pre-decided jumping off point to re-regulation.

What’s on your Hit List? Want this resource that I created? Drop me your email and I’ll send it to you electronically or offer to mail it (snail mail style!)

10/14/2026

I love the drama! I also actually love making sense of people’s files and paper. So we didn’t just throw everything away here but a lot did get recycled.

We made a small plastic file box for all the manuals, one for sentimental paper & an active filing cabinet with things that will need to be referenced or are important.

Life admin is hard- I get it. But it’s a LOT harder when you are starting from the bottom of a pile of paper.

Need help with a filing system? Thoughts about paper? I can help with that.

10/11/2026

Depending on how 2026 has gone this news might be really welcome or terrifying. We are about 10 weeks from the end of the year 2026– I know, it’s been crazy— but if you want to bring intentionality to this next few months, this might be a good week to jot some things down, take a thinking walk or just scream into the void. There is no perfect way to do it but I find ostrich-ing in the sand always leaves me vulnerable for something to bite me in the ass. Just sayin’

10/09/2026

Bringing this concept back around for an encore because it’s just super important. Will working with a Decluttering professional solve all your problems? Maybe! But more likely we need to start being kind to future versions of ourselves. Working with someone can get your back to baseline but it’s up to YOU to make decisions everyday for future YOU.

Knowing you will have to clean up all those free items might help you say, no thank you. Taking a pause on online shopping for a week or two can take so many things off your plate.

Try it! What would future YOU think about your next trip to Target.

10/04/2026

I have always done some form of to-do list making/brain dumping but now I do this Kendra Adachi style most often. I actually think this a form of decluttering that is deeply nourishing and kind to YOU. The reason we clear physical space is so we have more mental space... well... sometimes you house can be completely clean and tidy and you still feel our of sorts— time for a Brain Dump!

So here is A process: 1. Dump it all out. 2. Categorize it (different colors work great but symbols can work too). Now, Soon, Later, Never Mind 3. Look at it closer and batch the things that are similar in your Now and Soon categories (things like: “call and make appointment for...” “return this thing”).

Once you get down to this part you likely have a lot less than you thought HAD TO be done, and the things you HAVE TO DO, can be managed by batching them together or going in the right order.

Happy Brain Decluttering!


09/18/2026

Our family has been camping at Mooselookmeguntic Lake for 15 years. We are very privileged to have a lovely home and GET to go live in a tent for a weekend— I recognize this. I also recognize that when you move from a house that has all the comforts and so much MORE, it’s kind of nice to just have to figure out different ways to do things.

It got my decluttering mind thinking about how much stuff clutters our house for the sake of conveniences and to help us live in the fast paced lives we are being asked to live in. I don’t know that I have a solution (I’m not a minimalist) BUT it’s always nice to reflect when you aren’t IN IT. Being surrounded by nature and the simplicity of camping is a great reset for me.

How do you reset? How do you zoom out and see your life differently?

09/16/2026

Business is going well— it’s a lot of decluttering, coffee, trying to take aesthetic selfies for content and adding in flowers when possible!

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