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CAKES 4 CROWNS, AND CARNIVAL Let the good times roll with these festive finds

HEARTH’S 7 ADESIRE Cozy fireside essentials

THE CHILL ZONE 10 How to make a meditative, clutter-free space for the new year

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Let the good times roll with these festive finds

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Cozy fireside essentials

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Chill THE

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By LAURA MCKNIGHT

Be mindful of what you purchase.

Unnecessary clutter begins at the store. Clear out duplicates. For example, pare down coffee mugs and plastic storage containers without matching lids.

How to make a meditative, clutter-free space for the new year

Use organizing tools. Professional organizers recommend mail sorters; drawer organizers for junk drawers, kitchen drawers; canned food organizers; canisters for kitchen ingredients like flour and sugar; labels, especially for kitchen items; and drawer dividers for clothing.

The new year symbolizes a fresh start.

Consider using furniture with hidden storage, such as a nightstand with drawers.

The urge to reflect and revamp often plays out in our homes, as we look around and determine what to pitch, what to keep, and how to move forward in a brighter, neater environment.

Reorganizing an entire home may be an end goal but can be overwhelming. To avoid the inertia caused by overload, professional organizers say to start small.

Creating even one calm, organized space — a home office, bedroom or kitchen — can reap rewards.

Local experts say a decluttered, well-arranged space saves time and energy and, perhaps more importantly, lowers stress and anxiety. Having a clean space “makes life so much easier,” says Tami Hills, owner of Nola Clutter Busters.

Hills and Kristina Fortier, owner of Porter New Orleans, say their clients often cite mental health benefits from cleaner spaces.

“They thank me repeatedly, say there’s a weight lifted off their shoulders,” Fortier says.

Small changes like using mail sorters, moving the coffee cups nearer the coffeemaker, or clearing out extra Tupperware can lower stress and function as self-care.

“Drawer organizers are like $12 from Walmart and can be life-changing,” Hills says.

Fortier and Hills say they showed a special knack for organizing early in life, with propensities for creating order.

“I just have a lot of energy and like things in their place,” Fortier says. “I don’t like chaos.”

Fortier, a New Orleans native, opened Porter New Orleans in 2016, starting with organizing services and then expanding to a variety of personal

Establish specific places for things and make it routine to return items back to those places.

Consider efficiency when placing items. For example, store coffee cups near the coffee maker instead of across the kitchen from each other.

Efficiency saves time and energy.

Donate gently used items to local nonprofits.

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concierge services like errand running, holiday decorating, filing and more. The business grew by word of mouth, spreading outward from family and quickly developing a regular customer base.

Fortier’s work is fueled by a passion for purging, categorizing and putting everything in a particular place. She can get in the zone for hours while arranging a master closet or sorting an extensive jewelry collection “It’s just an odd passion that I have,” she says.

“I’ve always just loved it.”

Hills, a longtime professional designer, says she began helping others get organized in the mid’90s. The Michigan native honed her decluttering skills partly out of necessity: She has moved more than 50 times, both to and within various cities, which required lots of tough decisions about which items she’d take with her.

Hills became the resident expert on unpacking and arranging, especially in New Orleans, where the layout of shotgun homes can present unique challenges.

“I love a mess, and I love helping people,” she says.

Hills says working in production and design rooms in the garment and theater industries has also boosted her organizing abilities. The garment industry involved big seasonal shows, followed by intensive cleanouts in preparation for a new season. She also worked for years in costuming at the Saenger Theater, a job that required lots of organization and efficiency as productions — and their costumes — move quickly from city to city.

“Pretty much every industry needs organizing,” she says. “Life needs organizing.”

But some people struggle with decluttering.

A range of people call on help from professional

organizers: new mothers, elderly folks, people with conditions like ADHD (which can make tasks like organization especially challenging), and people contending with a health crisis, death or recent trauma. Fortier says her clients have included doctors, attorneys and authors who are great at their work but struggle with organization.

Experts understand cleaning out and rearranging a space can be emotionally and mentally taxing.

“It can be really scary for some people. I try to be mindful of that,” Hills says.

Fortier advises clients to create a “think about it” pile to remove the pressure of making immediate decisions about some items, and then go through that pile later and try to purge items that will likely go to the back of a closet or into a storage unit.

With decluttering, one of the biggest challenges is simply getting started on what seems like a daunting task.

“They get stuck because they see only the big picture,” Fortier says. “The hardest thing is getting started. Once you start, you’ve already done the hardest thing you’ve got to do.”

Hills and Fortier recommend focusing on one small part of the house, even just one junk drawer.

The satisfaction of clearing out even a small area often leads to more progress.

“Once we get started, they’re naturally motivated to keep going,” Fortier says.

TIPS FOR DECLUTTERING Choose an area for focus: a kitchen, a home office, or even one junk drawer or pile of mail.

Fortier often recommends decluttering busier areas like the kitchen, often starting with the pantry. An organized pantry saves time and money, as you avoid buying items you already have but may be shoved to the back.

Pull all items out of the area to be decluttered.

Categorize the items and place them in piles or containers.

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Hills suggests dividing items into a to-do pile, a to-file pile and a to-trash pile. Fortier tends to divide items into containers: one for keeping, one for giving to family and friends, one for donations and one for trash.

Organize the items to be kept and place them strategically.

TIPS FOR MAKING A SOOTHING SPACE

Fortier recommends using containers, drawer dividers and labels for this: “You need something that will physically stop it from becoming a mess again, whether it’s bins or baskets for the pantry or dividers for the drawers.”

Choose soft, soothing colors Maximize natural light Display items you love

Maintain and refresh.

Add plants and/or other natural elements Play calming music

Make it routine to return items to where they belong.

Incorporate calming smells like candles or incense

Periodically survey the space and JANUARY 2024

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