First read this comment by Jane from last week in response to Cindy's Weekly Wisdom ~ Mental Clutter It is interesting how one simple transfer of focus can make such a big difference to someone's life. Think about it for a minute ~ Jane has transferred her focus from avoiding unpleasant tasks to finding a reason to cross something off her to do list. She naturally got no joy from knowing there were unpleasant tasks awaiting to be done but she gets a great deal of pleasure eliminating things from her to do list. The pleasure can not be achieved without the task being done. Nothing has become … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2012
Cindy’s Weekly Wisdom ~ Decluttering Shame
Cindy's Weekly Wisdom A book, and its identical twin sister, have been both a clutter and a shame over the past half decade. When I purchased the pair, probably for a premium, since they came from a pricey, wooden-and-organic on-line toy store,  I thought they were pure genius, and I was a genius too. "Pocketful of Memories Book": oversized pocket folders, one for each school year kindergarten through eighth, with room to fill in fun information such as "my autograph," "my pets," "my favorite places to visit." How fun! How Simple! How never really used! It seemed like a no-fail system. … [Read more...]
Plant Clutter
The mini mission for today is plant related clutter. This could be potted plants that have seen better days, potting supplies and tools, gardening equipment, or even wild overgrown garden plants. But the thought behind the inclusion of this post was people receiving potted plants as gifts and not being able to part with them even when they have become straggly and unattractive as potted plants often do over time. This can happen if they are kept in the wrong environment with poor lighting or harsh conditions like in an air-conditioned office. Let me create a scenario for you. Mary works in an … [Read more...]
Mini Mission Monday ~ Obscure Clutter
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 I think I will base the mini missions on things that are a little more obscure. Not everyone is going to have some of these things but you can always choose something unusual around your home that you have ignored up until now because they aren't numerous. Others might think ~ What's so … [Read more...]
Simple Saturday ~ Just for a laugh
You get a call that you need to go clean out Aunt Martha’s storage garage because she died. And, you are told to bring a trailer. Sounds like a pain in the rear but out of respect for your Aunt Martha, you comply. Later you send the following letter to your boss. Dear Boss, I'm resigning effective immediately! The reason for my resignation is that I cleaned my aunt's garage this morning before coming to work, and realized I don't feel like working anymore. See for yourself...  Scroll down ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ I … [Read more...]
Friday’s Favourites ~ 2Mar2012
On Fridays at 365 Less Things I share with you my favourite comments from my wonderful readers and my favourite web finds of the week. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did. Favourite Comments. Enjoy! Here is a comment I wouldn't want anyone to miss from Julia St. Charles. I particularly loved the last paragraph. Lena gives some great advice in this comment about offloading CDs. Becky has a tip for gardeners and using old tatty sheets in the comment. Here is a clever tip from Anita that might be useful if you need a little help weeding out your unused linen. Favourite Web Finds. … [Read more...]
A visual post
Today's Declutter Item Before you start scrolling to find today's post or emailing me saying I forget to write something I will let you know I am doing things a little backwards today. It has been a crazy busy day and I didn't leave much time to write a post so I decided to share with you a more visual post of what my daughter and I have been up to lately. So above you will see my declutter item of the day. A big pile of empty boxes. Actually the top two are full of baseball cards but they are also being decluttered. These boxes are the result of my daughters decluttering efforts over the … [Read more...]