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Order Out of Chaos: Laundry–and–Mud Room Makeover
A cluttered laundry-and-mud room becomes a functional, pleasant place to be.
Order Out of Chaos: Bill Payment and Desk Organization
Minimize the stress of paying bills by creating a simple system for household paperwork.
Order Out of Chaos: The Linen Closet and Bathroom
How to arrange your bathroom and linen closet so they support a more peaceful start to the day.
How to Do Away With BPA
If you live in the United States, there’s more than a 90 percent chance that BPA is already in your bloodstream.
How to Deal With the Stress of Moving
Tips for navigating the stress of relocating and feeling at home in a new place from psychologist and psychotherapist Elizabeth Stirling, PhD.
Choose Safer Bedding and Avoid Harmful Chemicals For Healthier Sleep
Mattresses, pillows, and other bedding can contain chemicals that, while intended to make sleep safer, actually have the opposite effect.
4 Ways to Keep Toxins From Entering Your Home
We enjoy connecting with the earth through a landscaped yard or natural park. Once we track that earth inside, though, it’s a different story. Dirt, in this chemical age, is dirtier than many of us might want to know.
Detox Your Home
How to limit your exposure to toxins in your home and better balance the basic elements of air, fire, water, and earth.
The Hidden Health Hazards of Scented Laundry Products
A University of Washington study found air vented from dryers using scented products contain a mixture of some 25 harmful chemicals.
For Love and Money
Financial expert Ruth Hayden helps couples move beyond their money issues. In this first of two installments, she explains why we fight about finances — and how to find common ground.
How Dry Cleaning Affects Brain Health
Research shows that there may be a link between dry-cleaning chemicals and mental illness.
The Emotional Toll of Clutter
What is your space saying about you — and what is it doing to your energy, mood and outlook on life?
The Problem with Chemical Flame Retardants
The Environmental Working Group highlights products that contain toxic chemical flame retardants.
The Health Dangers of LED Lights
How too much blue light in LED light bulbs can affect sleep, mood and cancer-fighting abilities.
How to Embrace the Wabi-Sabi Style in Your Home
Tired of trying to make your home look magazine-slick? Discover the Japanese art of wabi-sabi or “appreciating the imperfect.”
Clutter Clearer: Laurie Gerber
Life coach Laurie Gerber has helped hundreds of clients overcome self-defeating behaviors and clean up their emotional lives, daily habits and relationships.
Order out of Chaos: Declutter the Bedroom
Feng-shui expert Andrea Gerasimo explains how to make your bedroom a restful sanctuary.
Natural Cleaning: 6 Homemade Cleaning Solutions for a Toxin-Free Home
Sara Snow shares 6 ways to detox your cleaning products.
Order Out of Chaos: The Car
Our decluttering expert shows one very busy fitness editor how to organize her ride.
Order Out of Chaos: The Closet
A feng-shui and decluttering expert explains the secrets of the well-organized closet.
