I could have written your post, we have a lot of similarities. Oh, and having a clean and empty sink is motivating!!! BUT I did donate a whole trunk of clutter. Since my clutter is in the basement, I’m working toward getting my living areas clean and THEN tackle the hoard. (All while keeping my upstairs presentable!) Mostly clothes my kids have outgrown that I’d been trying to sell on Mercari (back before I stayed my WFH job and had access to a printer and packing tape!) There’s plenty more of the hoard to go through, and once the kitchen and dining room are tidied (and I get whatever is on my kitchen floor OFF my kitchen floor! □) I’m back at it. I will proudly say this though-I filled the entire trunk of my small SUV with clutter and donated it a couple weeks ago. And once it’s presentable, I have the motivation to keep it that way!Īnd when my kids go back to school in a little less than a month I’ll have less daytime dishes to contend with! My dining room and kitchen are currently an eye sore, and as much as I want to work on the basement hoard, I know that I can’t bring myself to until the dining room is presentable and USABLE comfortably. (I prefer vacuuming over sweeping!) (Y’all, taking a work from home job had been life changing for the state of my home! I do laundry on my breaks!) Yesterday I did a load of laundry (folded and put away too!) AND I vacuumed my living room and front entry. Most days I’m able to do just a LITTLE more as well. And it’s been like, 4 or 5 days! I can’t tell you how motivating it is to have an empty sink! I want everything clean and all the junk GONE!!! If you do nothing else, go to bed with a clean sink. Which I think originated from The Fly Lady. Last week I got frustrated seeing how filthy my tub was (didn’t I clean it just a couple weeks ago?) and that spiraled to cleaning the toilet, and the sink and counter, and organizing the cabinet behind the toilet, and…… yeah. Since my hoard is out of sight (for the moment) I’m taking the time to build cleaning/tidying habits for the rest of the house. But it’s all in the basement (out of sight, out of mind, right? My husband and kids are the only one who used the basement! Well, I need to walk through it for the laundry… my weekly reminder of the clutter…) While I don’t have the same EXACT mindset she describes, so much is eerily familiar to me.Īnyway, I have a serious “hoard” that has to go. Pick one or the other if you’re in a time crunch.) I’m currently working my way through her book “How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind.” (Honestly, I feel like the books repeat themselves a lot. So much so that I immediately put a library hold on her other books. White’s book “Decluttering at the Speed of Light.” Well, I did a few months ago, and I enjoyed it. I believe it was here that I was told to read Dana K. Hello fellow people trying to not live in clutter!
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