Lauren Williams's (casualuncluttering) Blog

I'm super-excited to announce that my softball team the Puget Sound Pronouns has its schedule up with the Emerald City Softball Association. It's dizzying: Saturdays, a Sunday, starts 8:00AM sometimes, 11:00AM sometimes, 1:30PM sometimes. But it's going to be a good time always. I'm proud to say ...

I am soooooooooooooo sick of ho-my-way-e or-ganizing-the-highway TV shows. OHMIGOD - clients who don't make more than the most pitiful, halfhearted, mewling peep about letting things go. I WANT my clients to fight back sometimes, it means they're thinking and feeling the process. You can see the ...

Care tasks. Not chores. Not jobs. Not responsibilities. Not obligations. Care tasks. This is how KC Davis, a licensed professional counselor, in her meditative, tranquil, tender affirmation of and plea for self-care (and family-care by extension) How to Keep House While Drowning, reframes our day...

I am delighted to announce that I’ll be offering an organizing class through The Works Seattle on Thursday May 16, 7:00PM. It’s a beautiful space in one of my favorite neighborhoods. I may just let myself goof off that day and then saunter in to teach. My beloved Coco is star of the show.About th...

I'm proud to announce that a colleague of mine in NAPO Washington State, Amy-Ellen f. Trefsger, Distance Decluttering, very new to the profession, has had the gumption to publish a book, Swipe Left on clutter, an entertaining, absolutely unique perspective on the highs and lows, trials and triump...

OH MY UNIVERSE - me, my count, all shopping bags: I let go a plastic one and two cloth ones; so far keeping 3 small cloth ones, 2 HUGE insulated ones, 4 cheap medium recyclables, 1 FANTASTIC solid-bottomed one, 2 medium insulated ones, 1 huge cloth one, 1 HUGE plastic one which I KNOW I can use f...

82 pages. Bigger than some of my favorite books. Going in recycle as fast as I can dump it, unless I decide it's kindling for my fireplace. I feel awful this morning, who knows why. I am finding it impossible to focus on the important work I urgently need to start, let alone finish. It is just no...

  NAPO Washington State volunteers sorted potatoes for two hours for Food Lifeline in Seattle. We had a lot of fun, despite the cold!

The Story of Stuff Project is an awesome, stubborn, effective San Francisco USA-based non-profit which strives to open eyes and minds to the dangers of common consumable pollutants such as plastic bottles and junk mail. Launched in 2007 with an online documentary, The Story of Stuff, its product ...

I think Kim and Penn Holderness are hilarious. And a great reminder that we're all human. You better believe I'm a subscriber. And I LIKE, or HAHA, a lot. They've also got FABULOUS ADHD content. You'll understand the shoe reference if you watch all four clips... It's a Pretty Good Box Weird Thing...