The beginning of the year is a time heavy with pressure to clean your home. The Northern Hemisphere’s colder months seed a desire to stay in and get cozy, but home is where the mess is, and it’s ...

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Let’s face it, we’re all a little messy. Well, most of us at least. That’s why it’s good to have company coming, because it makes us clean up. No one wants to invite guests over when there are piles ...

Closets feel organized when doors are shut and everything looks tucked away, but hidden organizers often just conceal clutter instead of solving it. Visual organizers can also overlook what is buried ...

It's the time of year when we accumulate the most stuff. When we do, people often throw around the word "hoarding." But it turns out it's a frequently misunderstood term. Therapist Jayme Kolbo spends ...

Many women feel a consistent pressure to stay on top of household labor, despite working and earning the same, if not more, than their partners, as a study from Pew Research Center explains. From ...

Amanda Uhle’s recent book Destroy This House (Summit Books, 2025) opens with an unsettling image of her parents’ home: “The garage in their Pontiac home was filled with food, much of it perishable.

A few months ago, you proudly nixed a ton of excess clutter in your home and happily basked in the joy of tidy surfaces. But today, as your eyes shift around your space, you realize you’re somehow ...

Many people only learn about hoarding disorder from reality TV shows, where homes are shown overflowing with objects and extreme clutter. But these dramatic scenes only capture the surface. Hoarding ...

Now is not the time to clean out all of your closets. By Elizabeth Passarella Elizabeth is filling in for Jancee Dunn, who is off this week. This weekend, I am planning a Great Squishmallow Eviction ...