Author Archives: Barbara Frank

The Sentimental Person’s Guide to Decluttering

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Cardamom Publishers announces the publication of Claire Middleton’s new decluttering handbook, The Sentimental Person’s Guide to Decluttering:

Conquer Your Clutter Without Losing Your Nostalgic Memories

How can you have the organized home of your dreams when you’re emotionally attached to almost all of your stuff?

In The Sentimental Person’s Guide to Decluttering, Claire Middleton offers a plan that you can work through, step by step, to turn your home into the welcoming, roomy haven you’ve always dreamed of, filled with charm, personality… and none of the mess you live with now.

In this book, Claire shares tips that will help you give up the bulk of your sentimental clutter while keeping your most precious treasures to use and display. Learn how to shrink your collections of nostalgic items like:

  • Your children’s baby clothes and toys
  • Mementos from your own youth
  • Clothes you’ve kept for decades
  • Heirlooms you inherited
  • Books you’ve kept for years
  • Holiday decorations
  • And everything else that brings back happy memories.

You don’t have to live with overflowing closets, an attic full of boxes and a basement packed with more of the same, just because it’s so hard for you to sort through and give up belongings linked to your past.

The truth is, you CAN finally free yourself of clutter while keeping your most treasured belongings. Read The Sentimental Person’s Guide to Decluttering now, and start on the path to conquering clutter without giving up happy memories.

 

Happy Belated New Year!

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Yes, I know what day it is, it’s the 10th. But despite all my best efforts to avoid rampant illness over the holiday season, it crept up on me last week and knocked me down with five days of fever. Ugh.

Now I’m feeling better, ready to tackle another year. There are some good things coming this year, and I’m excited.  I will share those things when I can. In the meantime, let’s enjoy some good news. I’ll bet you can’t read this story of what happened shortly before Christmas when the staff of a Dallas middle school asked for men to volunteer to be dads for some boys who don’t have dads in their lives at a “Breakfast with Dads” event….and not cry.  God bless every single one of those men as well as all of those boys.

Kids with No Boundaries

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I’ve always believed that it’s up to parents to decide how to raise their kids. But I’ve got to admit that stories like this are certainly not good for the homeschooling movement. Kids need boundaries for their own security, not to mention learning how to live in society. Wow. I guarantee this is not what our homeschooling household looked like.

For Today’s High School Grads

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One of the things I know for certain is that children grow up fast (even if it doesn’t feel like it while they’re little), and before you know it they’re on their own.

It’s so hard to make sure you’ve taught them everything you want them to know before they leave home. Here’s an interesting article, “What I Would Tell a High School Graduate Today,” that touches on several subjects that your teens should consider. Give it to them to read, or read it yourself to get ideas for topics to discuss with them before they leave the nest. It definitely makes for worthwhile reading.

The (Lutheran) Church of Sweden Goes PC

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Thank God my great-grandma left Sweden for this country when she was a teenager. Not only is Sweden being taken over by Muslim refugees, with the resulting crime wave hurting many Swedes, but now the Swedish Lutheran church (yes, four generations later, my family is still Lutheran) has gone all PC and is ordering its clergy to stop referring to God as “he” or “the Lord” in an effort to appease women clergy in the church, including their first female archbishop.

I won’t get on my soapbox here, although I could very easily. Instead, I’ll just quote one of the many disgusted commenters on that article:

“The Devil must be laughing her head off.”

Too funny!