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November feels like the calm before the holiday storm. Thanksgiving is coming, and then the rush to December begins. I’ve learned that using November wisely makes the entire holiday season less stressful. This month is about maintaining what you’ve already done while preparing for what’s ahead. I used to think November cleaning meant panic-scrubbing before…
October has always been one of my favourite months. The leaves are changing, the air is crisp, and somehow pumpkin spice is everywhere. This is also when I realise winter is actually coming, and my home needs serious preparation. The cosy fall aesthetic everyone loves requires some actual work behind the scenes. I’m definitely not…
September feels like a second New Year to me. There’s this fresh start energy, even though it’s the ninth month. Maybe it’s leftover back-to-school feelings from childhood. Whatever the reason, September makes me want to reset my home and prepare for cooler months ahead. I’m still figuring out seasonal cleaning rhythms. Some years, I dive…
November is the month that separates the people who feel prepared for December from the people who feel ambushed by it. The holiday season, whatever form it takes in your household, tends to arrive with a significant amount of stuff. Gifts coming in, food accumulating, decorations appearing, packaging piling up. If the home is already…
October decluttering has a particular atmosphere. The light changes, the evenings close in, and a kind of nesting instinct kicks in for many people. After the expansive feeling of summer, autumn pulls you back indoors and makes you want your space to feel genuinely good to be in. This is useful energy for decluttering. Not…
There’s something about September that feels more like a new year than January does. Maybe it’s the back-to-school associations that never quite leave you, even decades after you last carried a school bag. Maybe it’s the shift in the light, the first cooler evenings, the sense that a new season is genuinely beginning. Whatever it…
November gets a bad reputation. And I understand why. The leaves are largely gone. The days are short and getting shorter. The weather is frequently grey and wet and cold, without being the kind of cold that produces frost and sparkle. It is, on the face of it, the least obviously appealing month of the…
October doesn’t ease you into autumn. It arrives and immediately makes its presence felt. The colours that were beginning in September are now fully, extravagantly here. The mornings are cold enough to see your breath. The evenings close in with a speed that still catches you off guard, even when you know it’s coming. The…
Something happens in September that is hard to pinpoint exactly. It’s not one thing. It’s a whole constellation of things arriving more or less simultaneously. The light changes. The air changes. The smell changes. The hedgerows are suddenly heavy with fruit and berries. The mornings have a coolness in them that wasn’t there in August….
I’ve been waiting to write this one. October is, for my money, the most visually spectacular month of the entire year. Not the most abundant, not the most dramatic in terms of wildlife events, but the most purely, overwhelmingly beautiful. The light. The colour. The smell of damp leaves and woodsmoke, and something ancient and…