BirchTree Organizing

If you’re new here, I’m Heather!

I help people declutter and organize their homes so life feels lighter, calmer, and easier to manage.

Yes, I love a pretty before-and-after.

But the real magic is what happens in your mind:

✨Less stress

✨Less mental clutter

✨More breathing room in your day

If you’ve been craving a home that supports you instead of weighing you down, you’ll feel right at home here!

Follow along for gentle decluttering support, realistic organizing tips, and a lot of encouragement to make life easier.

If I could wave a magic wand and immediately fix one area of your home, what area would you choose?    

Garages are hardworking spaces, but they’re not meant to store EVERYTHING.

Garages (at least most) are not temperature-controlled, which means heat, cold, moisture, and pests can infiltrate and damage the items stored there.

That’s why deciding what NOT to store in the garage is a key component of any garage organizing project.  

Keep these items out of your garage to avoid damage, safety risks, and costly replacements:

🍎Perishable food
🍷Wine
📚Books and other important papers and documents
👚Clothes and other textiles such as bedding, blankets and towels
🪑Wood furniture
🦴Pet food
🥫Canned Food
🫓Rugs and carpets
📀Electronics

And the last item I would NEVER store in a garage: 🌉photos.

For a more in-depth look at the specific risks to these items and why a plastic storage tote will NOT save them, check out BirchTree’s latest blog post, linked in my stories and saved to the Blog Highlight.

Tell me, are any of these a surprise to you?

Spoiler alert: it’s not about right or wrong.

When it comes to decluttering, so many people get stuck, struggling to make the “right” decision, for every item.

But the truth is, it’s not about right or wrong.

What REALLY matters when decluttering is making an ALIGNED decision; one that fits with your current life, your space and how you want your home to feel.

An aligned decision removes the pressure of getting it right and shifts the focus to making intentional decisions that support your goals.

It might mean letting go of:

✨something that used to matter, but no longer serves you,

✨a well-intentioned gift you appreciated the thought and effort behind, but that missed the mark,

✨supplies for hobbies, activities or projects you had the best intentions of completing, but never did, or

✨of items you spent money on believing you would use/wear, but in the end did not.

An aligned decision can also mean choosing to keep something because:

✨it genuinely adds value or joy to your life right now

✨you have a specific plan for the use of an item or

✨the item supports a specific goal you are pursuing.

Shifting your mindset from “Is this the right choice?” to “Does this feel aligned with the life I’m creating?” makes the decluttering process lighter, more intuitive and a whole lot less overwhelming.

What’s your biggest obstacle when it comes to decluttering? Let me know below.