I have written, more than once, about clutter categories on my blog. Categories such as obligation clutter, sentimental clutter, lazy clutter, guilt clutter... One category I have written about before but am not sure I have ever labelled is Life Circle Clutter. I have been reminded by recent events that people usually have their own particular clutter weakness or weaknesses. I have also noticed that these weaknesses may involve not accepting that a certain phase of ones life is now in the past. For example, are you reluctance to let go of the fact that there are no longer young children Continue reading
Master Your Space
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As anyone who has been reading my blog for a while would know, my decluttering style is usually slow, steady and haphazard. That is, I declutter random items from all over the house, rarely concentrating on one particular area. This method, however, doesn't necessarily appeal to everyone of course. If that is the case for you then it is best to concentrate on one area at a time or the task would probably drive you crazy. With that being said here is a strategy to use when decluttering space by space. If the idea of letting go of things disturbs you but the annoyance of keeping them is Continue reading
Convenience
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How much clutter do you have in your home that's purpose is convenience. There is no doubt that much of the clutter that enters our homes does so under the guise of adding convenience to our daily lives. Items that supposedly save us time, and in some cases actually do, but end up taking up a lot of space and possibly just making us a little lazy. Here are a list of things that I came up with. Some of which I happily live without, others I soon will and others I won't be parting with. Laundry trolley:~ I don't have one of these. I decluttered mine in preference for the extra exercise of Continue reading
Cindy’s Weekly Wisdom ~ Food Clutter
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"Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'" - George Carlin, comedian I just finished reading the book The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn. Briefly, Kathleen is a former restaurant and food critic who earns a degree at Le Cordon Bleu. One evening, back in the United States, she is grocery shopping and starts following a woman who is filling her cart only with Continue reading
Too Hard Basket
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Today's mini mission is to declutter something because it requires dusting and you don't like it all that much anyway. Have you ever considered how much time you spend cleaning things in your home that aren't even necessary to your happiness or survival. Or perhaps you avoid this task until the dust is causing hay-fever, someone is coming to visit and it looks embarrassing or the humidity is turning that seemingly innocent dust into a breeding ground for mould or mildew. Or perhaps you don't even realise that this dust could be causing health problems. My son's bedroom used to be a huge Continue reading
Cindy’s Weekly Wisdom ~ How to Begin
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Cindy's Weekly Wisdom Several people have recently asked me how to begin decluttering, and someone confessed last week that she thought all of us were running to the thrift store every single day as we decluttered, so I decided that it was time for another review. Where Colleen and I started from For those of you who are newer readers, you may not know that Colleen and I started our decluttering journeys from very different places. (And we didn't know each other then, either.) Colleen's house was well organized and very tidy, but she realized that she simply had way too much stuff. Her Continue reading
Mini Mission Monday ~ Consider these items
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Mini Mission Monday is about finding ten minutes a day to declutter. To make it easy for you, each Monday I set seven declutter missions, one for each day of the week for you to follow. It takes the guess work out of decluttering and makes it easy and "fun" for you to achieve some quick decluttering. This week's mini missions address items that you may not have considered decluttering in the past. You may not even consider the idea when you see what they are, but I thought I would make the suggestion anyway and allow you to give them some thought. I have to say that the only one I could Continue reading
Redundancy or Destruction
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After reading the title of today's post you are probably eagerly awaiting an explanation. I am going to attempt to keep it brief because I have a somewhat related topic I would like your opinion on before I sign off today. What Redundancy or Destruction relates to is this:- The less we own ~ be that reducing what we already have or minimising what comes in ~ the more likely it is that we will wear things out (Destruction) rather than them becoming useless to us (Redundant). This is especially so for items of clothing, both for adults and for children. Recently Lena commented that she has so Continue reading
Mini Mission Monday ~ Perishables
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Mini Mission Monday is about finding ten minutes a day to declutter. To make it easy for you, each Monday I set seven declutter missions, one for each day of the week for you to follow. It takes the guess work out of decluttering and makes it easy and "fun" for you to achieve some quick decluttering. This week the mini missions are based around things that perish when not used for a long time. So even if you think you "might need these things someday" it may turn out the someday is too far away and the items will only be good for the garbage can by the time you get around to using them. Best Continue reading
