None of them are obvious. All of them are fixable. And summer is the best time to deal with every single one. By Lorena Duarte · The Organizing Recipe · Denver, Colorado You paid your bills this month. You checked your subscriptions. You made a grocery budget. And your home is still leaking money. Not dramatically. Not in ways that show up on a bank statement. But slowly, quietly, consistently through the things sitting in your pantry right now, the gear piled in the garage,

The patterns, the mistakes, the moments of transformation — and what it all taught me about why we really struggle with our homes. By Lorena Duarte · The Organizing Recipe · Denver, Colorado I didn't plan to become a professional organizer. I planned to keep working in professional kitchens. That was my world the controlled chaos of restaurant service, where everything has a place and everything moves with precision, or someone gets hurt. I understood that world. I was good

It's not a willpower problem. It's a systems problem. Here's the difference and what to do about it. By Lorena Duarte · The Organizing Recipe · Denver, Colorado Before I became a professional organizer, I spent years working in professional kitchens. Restaurant kitchens. The kind where everything has a place, everything is labeled, everything gets returned exactly where it belongs not because the chefs are naturally neat, but because when 50 covers are coming in at 7pm on a

Your home environment is either your greatest productivity asset or your biggest hidden liability. Here's how to make it work for you. By Lorena Duarte · The Organizing Recipe · Denver, Colorado April 1st arrives and something interesting happens to a lot of people. Q1 is gone. The New Year's resolutions have either taken hold or quietly dissolved. The first quarter's goals have been met, missed, or somewhere in between. And now there's a clean slate: three fresh months ahead