{"id":1859,"date":"2012-11-30T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2014-02-09T15:09:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T20:09:45","slug":"clutter-clutter-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/2012\/11\/30\/clutter-clutter-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Clutter, clutter everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless. . .<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’re on Facebook, have I got a find for you.<\/p>\n

You know how Martha Stewart has all these great organizing and decorating tips…for the folks who won that $500 million dollars and can afford to spend six or seven hours a day weaving their own placemats?<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have time for all that.\u00a0 And the materials!<\/p>\n

Half the time you have to make your own radish roses to attach to yew branches harvested from your own hedges to make a tasteful holiday wreath which will, in turn, be gilded by a paint recipe based on egg yolks gathered from your hand-incubated Buff Orpington chickens nesting in your home-made chicken coop modeled on Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n

It’s not like these are things real people actually do.<\/p>\n

But over in New Orleans, there’s a little company called Clutter Clearer.<\/p>\n

Each day on their Facebook page, they post two things:\u00a0 An inspiration photo and a tip.<\/p>\n

The tips are realistic, useful and require inexpensive items to implement.\u00a0 More often than not, I think, “Whoa!\u00a0 Why didn’t I<\/em> think of that?”<\/p>\n

The inspiration photos are just that–photos of rooms that are both attractive and well-organized.\u00a0 Not every one will be to everyone’s taste, but there are good ideas in the pictures, too.<\/p>\n

The tips on the Clutter Clearer Facebook page are the most consistently realistic ideas I’ve ever seen on a site like this.<\/p>\n

Get on over there, search for “Clutter Clearer” in that little box at the top, and Like their page.<\/p>\n

If you’re not on Facebook, you can find their website here<\/a>.\u00a0 I don’t see any tips there, however, so Facebook is better!<\/p>\n

You know, you can read about how to knit sweaters out of wool from your herd of alpacas\u2014or you can take some actual small steps toward organizing your environment.<\/p>\n

Totally up to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unless. . . If you’re on Facebook, have I got a find for you. You know how Martha Stewart has all these great organizing and decorating tips…for the folks who won that $500 million dollars and can afford to spend six or seven hours a day weaving their own placemats? I don’t know about you, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[48,124],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-friday-finds","tag-organization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}