After cleaning out everything from the bedroom at my mom's house it was time to tackle the attic. That's where the real treasures were: the stuff I threw into boxes after high school and after college like those piles of text books and papers I...

Last year I started the massive project of sorting through my life. As I'm getting ready to leave for a year to travel I don't want to leave a mess and certainly don't want to come back to one. I still have so much stuff...

Garage sales freak me out. There, I said it. I've never really been someone who likes to rummage through others old things. I like things that are shiny and new and am one of those people who often buys something and then will wait a really...

Fact: anyone who watches an episode or two of Hoarders or Hoarding will immediately start cleaning. I don't know if there's been any formal research done on the matter, but everyone who brings up the show asserts that same thing. We're all afraid of becoming one...