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11 December 2025 | Comments [0] »
I wrote this post a dozen years ago after reading an article on homemade gifts in Martha Stewart Living. The link is still live—it’s updated regularly and the projects are different from the 2013 article that inspired this post—but the message is still the same. Please think hard before giving non-perishable homemade gifts. It can be so hard for the gift recipient to let them go. And that isn’t helpful for folks struggling with clutter.
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16 November 2017 | Comments [1] »
I almost never give an item I’ve knitted as a gift. And that’s because I’ve seen among my clients a real difficulty in giving up an item that was a gift. And it’s even harder to give up hand-made gifts, even if they’ve never been used or loved. Sometimes the gift recipient just doesn’t share the taste of the giver.
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5 May 2014 | Comments [0] »
Long before Pinterest, pinup boards have been used in houses everywhere to keep important information close at hand and top of mind. These bulletin boards can be really useful for information and for inspiration, but it’s really easy for them to get messy and full of outdated items. When that happens, they lose their utility (and beauty).
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9 December 2013 | Comments [1] »
I’m a little bit crafty. I love beautiful, handmade items. I knit as a hobby and especially appreciate hand knits.
But I almost never give an item I’ve knitted as a gift. And that’s because I’ve seen among my clients a real difficulty in giving up an item that was a gift. And it’s even harder to give up hand-made gifts, even if they’ve never been used or loved. Sometimes the gift recipient just doesn’t share the taste of the giver.
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27 March 2013 | Comments [2] »
The current (April 2013) issue of Martha Stewart Living features an article about Bea Johnson and her family. This family of four—Bea, her husband, and two school-age sons—embraces simple living and reducing waste to the point that they produce two handfuls of trash each year.
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