The movers stormed the house like a SWAT team, dismantling large pieces of furniture as if they were Legos. They loaded all our earthly belongings into a giant truck then drove away. And just like that, we were de-homed.   An hour later, my husband, DC, and I are outside an ice cream stand stress-eating ice cream because that’s what you do when your world is upended. It’s sort of working but doesn’t change the fact that we are in limbo, and we will be for weeks. Maybe, it occ

I am so embarrassed. All these columns and books I have written on downsizing and decluttering and my oh my, the mess I am in. Moving is...

Now that my husband, DC, and I had sold the Happier Yellow House to the first buyer who saw it, we were quite suddenly, technically,...

I should know by now, if you venture into an exploratory hypothetical conversation with a real-estate broker, you might as well start...

I get many emails from readers asking for advice on home design and improvements, organizing and moving, but the topic that dominates my inbox is exactly how (not whether) to get rid of stuff we value, which, to be clear, is not the same as valuable stuff. A few weeks ago in this blog, I fielded a question from a reader in San Francisco who wanted advice on what to do with her mother's precious dining room chairs. Today we address another reader's problem -- too much art:   D

Over the years, I have earned the reputation as the stuff police. I am forever nagging you to purge, declutter, toss, donate, edit, dump,...

That headline. That's what podcast host Kathryn Zox and I talk about in depth during this recent episode of The Kathryn Zox Show. LISTEN...

Dear Marni,  I've so enjoyed your columns and books over the years. I remember an article you wrote on dealing with family silver, and...

The Editor of Savoir Faire Magazine interviewed me last week — and put up with my horrible laryngitis — then wrote this lovely article ...

Rightsizing Your Home for a Life of Travel: Adventure Without the Baggage is the focus of this episode * of "The Ageless Traveler"...