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Rita Wilkins, known as The Downsizing Designer, is a nationally recognized interior and lifestyle design expert, TEDx speaker, and author of Downsize Your Life, Upgrade Your Lifestyle: Secrets to More Time, Money, and Freedom. She inspires Baby Boomers to reimagine their lives and embrace living abundantly with less. Jumpstart your journey with Rita’s The Letting Go Workbook—your all-in-one guide to decluttering with ease.

Latest Posts By Rita Wilkins

3 months ago

Why Decluttering Alone or with a Resistant Partner Can Feel Impossible and What Actually Helps

Some people are decluttering completely alone. No one notices the bags leaving the house. No one sees the hours spent deciding what to keep and what to let go. No one says, “Wow, it looks so much better.”

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4 months ago

What Do You Do When You Want to Downsize – But Your Spouse Doesn’t?

As an interior designer for the past 35 years, I have had the opportunity to help baby boomers design their first, second and even third homes, their beach houses, mountain retreats, and country cottages…

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4 months ago

Family Decluttering Day: A Beautiful New Tradition Bringing Families Together

What if one simple ritual could bring your family closer, spark laughter and storytelling, ease future burdens, and make room for what truly matters?

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6 months ago

How a Reverse Bucket List Can Reboot and Reignite Your Life and Your Career

One of the most talked about subjects of our time and at this stage of our lives, is how to successfully navigate uncertain times so we can not only survive, but thrive in life. In Bruce Feiler’s book, Life Is in the Transitions, he refers to times…

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7 months ago

A Comprehensive Guide to House Sharing: Making Your Home Roommate-Ready

House sharing can add a lot of fun and adventure to your life. It can also be a huge challenge if you’re not prepared. To make sure you and your roommates are comfortable, it’s important to make sure your home is roommate-ready. This comprehensive guide…

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8 months ago

What If You Only Had 10 Years Left? Would You Still Be Cleaning Out Your Basement?

Clutter is a thief of time and joy. You’ve been meaning to declutter for years. You’ve been promising yourself, “I’ll get to it… when things slow down.” But here’s what I see over and over again: Women wasting precious years cleaning, sorting, organizing, postponing the life they actually…

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9 months ago

The Laundry Basket That Changed My Life

I haven’t shared this story very often, but today, it feels especially appropriate. That forgotten basket had been sitting in the corner of my basement storage closet for years. It was a plain white plastic laundry basket – the kind you might pick up at a big box store for $9.99…

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11 months ago

Eco-Friendly Decluttering Made Easy: How to Declutter Without Harming the Environment

Let’s be honest– we’ve all been guilty of taking the easy way out when decluttering our homes by tossing stuff in the trash without a second thought about where it ends up. But here’s the hard truth: our actions have consequences. And when it comes to decluttering…

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12 months ago

Declutter Backwards: The Smartest, Fastest, and Easiest Way to Declutter

You spent an entire weekend decluttering and organizing your garage. But less than a week later – bam! Clutter has already started creeping back in, leaving you frustrated and wondering if all that effort was wasted. Ugh! Is it time to think differently…

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1 year ago

Decluttering Your Mind: The Key to a More Focused Life

Decluttering has become a buzzword in recent years – and for good reason! We’re constantly being told to declutter our homes, our closets, and our digital lives… but what about decluttering our minds? Mental decluttering is just as important – if not more – because it forms…

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