A school-year morning is one of the busiest moments in a family's whole day. Everyone getting dressed and ready at the same time, on a tight clock, with different energy levels and a good chance of an argument about what's okay to wear to school. Your closet is either helping this go smoothly, or making it harder. And for most families, if we're honest, it's making it harder.
Read MorePacking for a trip should feel like the beginning of something good. Instead, for a lot of people, it feels like a moderately stressful scavenger hunt conducted under time pressure, ending with a suitcase that's either too full or missing something important. The destination is wonderful. The getting ready to leave is the part that nobody looks forward to. But it doesn't have to be that way, and the solution isn't packing better. It's having a system before you start.
Read MoreThe linen closet is one of those spaces that nobody thinks about until they need something from it, and then it becomes very apparent, very quickly, whether it's been thought about or not. Guests arriving for the weekend, a last-minute need for an extra blanket, a beach day that requires four clean towels in the next ten minutes, the linen closet either rises to the occasion or it becomes a source of quiet embarrassment and significant frustration. It doesn't take much to make it work well. It just takes a system.
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