Help! Please Make Over My...

Readers ask for help with everything from a messy fridge to a packed bedroom closet.

. . .Bulletin Board

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“I kept putting them up without ever throwing anything away,” says Bevin Tierney of the permission slips, schedules, invitations, and more that were thumbtacked three layers deep on her family bulletin board. “And I could never find a calendar that was large enough to handle all our family’s activities.” Among the papers that had to go: three summers’ worth of swimming-lesson schedules, eight school lunch menus, and an expired $100 spa certificate.