And desperately ready to go shopping?  Don’t get depressed!  You know your girlfriends are all in the same situation.  It’s time to get together and start selling the stuff in your house that you keep pushing to the side or stepping over!

March is the perfect time for a garage sale, so start clearing out your closets (of course you’ve already done that using the tips provided previously!) and let’s go!

It always makes the day go by much faster and is a blast to do this with your girlfriends at one person’s house, so get together and determine who has the best location and pick a date that everyone can be there!

Pick a night prior to the sale to bring your items over, price and set up.  Remember, a garage sale is the time to trade items too!  That “thing” you always loved at your friend’s house that she’s now selling can now be yours!  Same goes for your items…you were done with it anyway and you’re sending it off to charity if it doesn’t sell so trade it and give it to your friend.  If you want a specific price for something then wait until the end of the sale to do the trading to see if you get your certain price.

This is a great time to hang with your friends and catch up AND make money doing it.  What could be better than that!!

Everyone feels this way after the holidays, but now is the perfect time as you put away your holiday decorations to give the rooms in your house a refreshing face lift without spending a dime!

1. Start by picking two rooms in your house
2. Select a couple of items from each room (could be furniture, but more specifically decorative items; candles, pictures, throw rugs…)
3. Switch to the other room and try placing in different areas until it looks/feels right.
4. Even moving items around in the same room can give your existing room a whole new/fresh look

Not only is it fun, but it becomes addicting!  Pretty soon you’ll be swapping items all over your house and you feel GREAT, because you haven’t spend any money and you feel like you have new stuff!

If you have any guys and/or teenagers in your house, it is both fun and interesting to watch them go into different rooms over the next few weeks/months and ask “is this new”? Or “I’ve never seen that picture before”!  When the item has actually been hanging in the family room for the last 2 years!

We all do!  Our “stuff” is what makes us unique and defines our personalities.  It’s also what can make us feel overwhelmed (whether we realize it or not) in our everyday lives and minimizes the time we have each day to do all the things we want or need to accomplish.  There’s no better time than the start of a New Decade and Year to begin new habits that can make our time more efficient.  Below are two simple tips that can start to make a difference.

Go ahead give one or both of these a try.  What do you have to loose…other than your clutter!