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Organize Your Family


Father and two children

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Make Decluttering a Way of Life

Families are messy. They drop crumbs everywhere. They generate loads of laundry. They have pets and friends and birthday parties and toys with more tiny pieces than there are stars in the sky. Sometimes the physical clutter is so extensive that it can interfere with your efforts to clear away the emotional clutter. Let’s talk about the fundamental changes that have to occur to make decluttering a way of life for your children.



From Enough Already! by Peter Walsh. Copyright © 2009 by Peter Walsh Design, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.