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2019 

I’m preparing for the Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD) Level II Aging Specialist Certificate. I found Age in Place: A Guide to Modifying, Organizing, and Decluttering Mom and Dad’s Home by Lynda G. Shrager while I was looking for another book entirely. That was my momentous good fo...
09/30/2019
 If anyone ever tries to tell you that I, Lauren Williams, Certified Professional Organizer(R), Founder and Owner of Casual Uncluttering LLC, am always organized - he's lying. And so begins my yarn, and earns me a debt to pay forward. My son is a teenager. My sister warned me that I wouldn't be a...
09/28/2019
Pete the Cat, Clean Way of Thinking For the little kid in all of us. Thanks to my NAPO colleague Russ Tybus, Morris Organizers, for alerting the entire professional organizer community to this adorable little doodle.
09/27/2019
Well, I wasn't planning on creating a Casual Uncluttering YouTube channel last night..  But then that nasty "Necessity is the Mother of Invention" drama roared in. So today, Saturday 9/21/2019, I give you my YouTube channel - the rare glimpse at a Casual Uncluttering project, maybe the occasional...
09/21/2019
I just contributed to another online article, this time about hosting parties without wearing yourself to a frazzle. Wonder when my next soiree will be? 10 Organizational Tips for Entertaining, Erin Thorburn, Tribune News Service, Sep 4, 2019 "Whether you’re a seasoned hostess or are having your ...
09/15/2019
Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding & Compulsive Acquiring by Michael A. Tompkins, Ph.D. and Tamara L. Hartl, Ph.D. offers a methodical, scrupulous, comprehensive and clinically-developed program for a support team to attempt to help a person with hoarding disorder clear ...
09/15/2019
The Treatment for Hoarding Disorder Workbook by Gail Steketee and Randy O. Frost, one publication in the Treatments That Work catalog of Oxford University Press, is, ideally, a tool used collaboratively by a person with hoarding disorder and his/her clinician to allow the afflicted client and the...
09/15/2019
Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving and Hoarding by David F. Tolin, Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee is playful. It refers to "good guys," positive habits for controlling hoarding impulses, and "bad guys," negative habits exacerbating hoarding. There are jokes scattered amo...
09/15/2019