When you have been a clutterer for a long time, decluttering never seems to end. Reading posts and articles I found that there is always room for improvement. Last year I was very much upset with my bedroom, but I had no idea where to start. Frustrated I asked Colleen for help and she told me to make a plan. My bedroom didn’t just need a declutter, it needed a new life. I always felt a mess in my bedroom. Not a nice feeling to have at all in one’s sleeping place! So I started to point out to myself what were the trouble areas: the furniture in a whole, the excess stuff I put off dealing Continue reading
Lost in the clutter
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This comment by Jo H and the mention of Feng Shui last week got me thinking about the aesthetics of a home. We all have our own tastes when it comes to the kinds of things we like, fabric choices, art works, furniture styles, knick knacks etc etc. However as Jo pointed out in her comment the beauty of these objects have a better chance of shining out when they aren't so plentiful that they get lost in the clutter. Although I only have a vague understanding of Feng Shui, and am sure some people think it is a lot of hocus pocus, I would suggest that it is worth investigating. I feel that some Continue reading
Reading Clutter
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Never fear all you book lovers out there, I am not going to once again nag you into relinquishing books today. This post is about the accumulation of reading materials other than books. Reading materials are another form of clutter that tends to accumulate around the house, in racks and on benches, tables and floors. Magazines, newspapers, sales catalogues... There is no reason why most of these can't immediately go in the recycling bin once read. Particularly the newspapers and sales catalogues. Quite frankly though in the age of modern technology there is no need to even acquire these Continue reading
Fourth Thursdays with Deb J ~ Sorting
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You have decided to declutter and then get organized so living life is easier. You then ask, “Help, how am I supposed to go about this? “ Sorting is the answer. Sorting by how you use something, how often you use it, and whether you use it at all. So many times we start with a jumble of items in a drawer or on a shelf. How often does this jumble have no rhyme nor reason? It’s just stuff that has been thrown there as we are hurrying through life. How can we know if we have enough or too much if we have no organization of what we have? The mother of a friend of mine was not very Continue reading
Logical thinking on ownership
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I was travelling on a train last week when two middle aged men boarded and sat down quite near to me. They began chatting to each other in a familiar way and as the conversation progressed one man asked the other about the status of his fishing boat. In reply the other man said that his boat had barely been used since his children had come along. Its lack of use and position in his front yard had caused it to be the target of break-and-enter more than once and was being ravaged by the elements of sun and weather. For all these reasons he had come to a sensible decision and sold the boat before 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
Fourth Thursdays with Deb J ~ Constant Weeding
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One of the rules of engagement we have learned from Colleen is to constantly be weeding out the things we no longer need. That’s what we are doing when we “declutter one thing a day.” With her Monday Mini-Missions she has been good to give us items to consider decluttering so that we don’t even have to really think about it if we follow them. Our work is already planned for us. I began to think about this when a friend from church asked me to help her with decluttering. Her husband was just placed in an Alzheimer’s group home and she is well aware that many of the items in her home 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
