If you look at how you grew up and how your parents grew up, you will notice that you and your kids have far more ‘things’ than in previous generations, yet technology is supposed to simplify all of this. We live on credit, so buying goodies and gadgets is easy. I know my father had […]

I took my own advice this week and Konmari’d my cupboard! I definitely owned far too many clothes, some of which date back a minimum of 11 years and some even older! The hardest part about this was that a few of the things I really liked but don’t fit into anymore. I didn’t throw […]

We got married in 1991 and it is 21 years since we moved into our very own new home. At the time, we had no children and, amongst our friends, we were the only married couple.  Being ‘Frum’ was relatively new to our Jewish community. First we lived in a beautiful, large 1 bedroom, 1 […]

This is a long blog post. I felt that it was necessary to reintroduce myself to everyone. I wrote and published the first Kasheringyourlife blog on the 28 June 2015 and already 5 weeks later I have over 180 followers (thank you all). I read a blog about blogging and in it they said that […]

A lot of the decluttering blogs that I have read give cleaning schedules for your house and they are all American. In this country a lot of us either have full time domestic, or part time domestic help, very few people have no help at all. My question is this; if you have help do […]

As part of my mission to declutter, I read blogs about decluttering, downsizing, minimizing, purging and the lingo that goes with cleaning up the mess that has taken up residence in my home over the last 20 years. Now I am following (sort of) the 15 minute a day method. It is a very good […]

It’s time to begin! On my Facebook page ,Kashering Your Life, I have posted my new decluttering project.  My bead room!  I make and sell jewellery, as well as teach a jewellery class once a week. A couple of months ago I moved my work area to another location in my house and just never […]

Today I am talking about, organising and cutting through the clutter in your home. We have lived in our house for 20 years, and over this time we have accumulated a ton of junk. We hoard! Sentimental Clutter For instance,  I only just got rid of the baby stuff, although I still have the double pram, as […]