Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

The mess never arrived all at once. It grew, sly and steady, until my hallway looked like a coat shop explosion and the kitchen table became a document archive nobody asked for. Friends texted “I’m ...

Anyone who knows me, knows that I’ve never been one of those “Take Five Easy Steps to Self-Improvement” type of people. Oh, it’s not as though I don’t try to be one of those people, you know, ...