Sane Jane Blog
Practical tips to tame the chaos in your home
My Aunt Tonya – Part II
Today was the day. I parted ways with the “glass flower,” a wedding gift from my Aunt Tonya over 20 years ago. I am sure you have all been waiting impatiently by your computers in anticipation, lying awake at night wondering how I ended up parting ways with the unused...
My Aunt Tonya and Avoiding Clutter
My Aunt Tonya – Part 1 When I married my husband, many years ago, we received an amazingly thoughtful gift from my Aunt Tonya. It was a large, assumingly expensive, glass flower, to be displayed as a work of art in our new home. Though I found the piece to be...
Red, White and Organization: Poor Home Organization Hurts the Psyche
We all know the classic story of our country’s independence – Britain was imposing some rules we were not super stoked about and so we fought to separate ourselves, make our own rules, and start our own country. If this sounds unfamiliar, a quick google search should...
Home Organizing is All About Convenience
As most of us know, wanting your life to be organized, and actually maintaining an organized life, are two completely different things. Most people find that initially decluttering and organizing a space is easy, but keeping it that way (especially with kids in the...
Multiples – Seeing Double or Triple – Common Sense to Control Clutter
This morning, at the crack of dawn, I sleepily applied makeup for the day ahead. I grabbed the eyeliner at the top of my makeup bag and attempted to apply it. After a couple tries, I realized it was an old product, tossed it back in the bag, and searched for the newer...
Organizing Spices – Raleigh
Chances are you feel much more comfortable cleaning out and organizing your spice drawer than your closet. It’s smaller, and seems less daunting – kind of like a toddler ;). I would argue, however, if you know how to do one, you also know how to do the other, as many...
Dorm Room Sanity
Get ready – ready for your local Target store to be sold out of the most basic of items, because it is almost that time of year! Not just time for kids to go back to school, but time for kids to go off to college and move into dorms. In a Black Friday-esque stampede,...
New Years: Resolutions and Reality – by Ann Goulian
It was the end of 2015, when Sane Jane proposed her New Year’s challenge to me: Every day of January get rid of one more thing from your house. On January 1st get rid of one thing, on January 2nd get rid of two things, and by the end of the month I should have freed...
25 Small Organizing Projects
Over many years, I have worked with clients from various backgrounds and walks of life. Though different in many respects, I noticed small organizing projects they had in common. Believe it or not, whether you are 80 years old living alone, or 30 with five kids and...