It’s Relatable with Kari O’Driscoll (Episode 6)Talking with Debra Baida About Stuff (why we love it and whether we need as much of it as we think we do), is now live!!! “Debra Baida, the owner of Liberated Spaces, talks to Kari about what it’s like to help folks organize their clutter, explore the stories we tell about our things, and how we can be more intentional about creating ease

In advance of being interviewed for Kari O’Driscoll’s awesome new podcast, “It’s Relatable,” I reminisced back to when we met over 10 years ago. (Trust me, the episode of our conversation will be posted very very soon, and I’ll share it here!) I believe our first exchange occurred over a meal or after a general session in the grand ballroom of a hotel in Midtown Manhattan during the an

Thirty years ago on a mid-July evening, I made a life-altering move: I boarded an Amtrak train in Penn Station en route to California. Thus began my chapter as a San Franciscan. Fifteen years ago around the same time, I launched a business. What began as spark-inducing conversations a few months prior morphed into what has become my second somewhat unconventional career as a life organizer. (I was

Here’s something to think about: sponges are among the most essential household supplies that are destined for the landfill. They often come wrapped in or are made of plastic. They get really gnarly and stinky. They cannot be recycled or composted. For many years as an adult, I used the brand of sponge that was omnipresent in the household I grew up in. It was a yellow rectangle of soft foam

One year ago when the pandemic uprooted our rhythms of daily life, procuring groceries quickly became the most stressful, time-consuming, and cumbersome activity. As shoppers and grocery store personnel learned the ropes of how to best navigate this necessity during a major health crisis, many of us found ourselves buying excess as a remedy for avoiding long queues and minimizing trips to the stor

As I’m sure you can relate, spending a lot of time indoors over the past year has led to unexpected home organizing and rearranging projects. My own home office was not immune to such an activity. I turned the desk 90º to face a different wall. Access to the window was an immediate result along with  better lighting for virtual organizing sessions. The simple change led to a cascade of mini-