As a teenager in the late 80's, the tape cassette was the revolutionary step up from record albums and allowed music to go mobile for the first time.  Next CD's arrived on the scene and digital music saw in the age of the MP3 and the rise of Apple Industries. The other day my 17 year old commented that today's toddlers will probably not know what CD's are. There are two things I love about digital music, one: no CD's to declutter and two: playlists! I love being able to compile a playlist.  I have a road trip playlist, a 'lift my spirits' playlist for Monday-itis and a playlist for Continue reading
Archives for January 2015
Quick purge or lifestyle change
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More than one person commented last week that they can't believe they are still finding things to declutter after years at the task. And what I say to that is ~ rejoice and be glad. Usually after most people do the usual kind of quick declutter they find they are back at square one a couple of years later. With a slow and deliberate declutter one gives a lot of thought to their habits of acquiring and holding on to stuff. Being aware of these habits makes it much easier not to make the same mistakes in the future. The reason why years later they are still finding things to declutter is Continue reading
Mini Mission Monday ~ Out of the way places
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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 some out of sight our of mind items have been decluttered from my home. Actually in my case they were out of sight but there isn't much I own that is out of mind, but you get the idea. My husband reassessed our storage cage in the garage and threw out lots of boxes. On my quest to Continue reading
One in one out
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I don't think I have ever dedicated a post to the practice of one in one out. That is, to maintain a decluttered status of your home,  for every item that comes into your home something else should go out in turn. Of course this has been mentioned time and time again here mostly in the context of when you buy something let something go. Buts lets not forget the when you receive something from someone else the same needs to happen or the clutter will begin to build up again. And of course if your home is already cluttered one-in-one-out is only going to maintain the status quo so other Continue reading
The cost of convenience
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Can you name one item in your home that adds a very high monetary cost for convenience? I can, and am happy to share with you what that item is. MY INJET PRINTER Or more to the point - the cartridges in it. And it is about to be decluttered. That's not to say that we are going to manage without a printer at all, although I like the sound of that, but we are going to switch to a laser printer. Although the cartridges in a laser printer are much the same rip-off price, they at least don't waste the majority of their cartridges contents on jet cleaning. Granted the new printer will only print Continue reading
Mini Mission Monday – Convenience Clutter
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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. If you only took a stocktake of everything in your home that is only there out of convenience rather than necessity you would shocked. And if only you could convince yourself as to how inconvenient, and sometimes costly, those convenience items really are then you would probably be able to find Continue reading
Mini Mission Monday ~ Room by Room
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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 we are going to go from one room in the house to another to find random things to declutter. Each day will be a different room. If you haven't got that room substitute it with another area of your home that isn't already on the list of mini missions. Monday - Declutter an item Continue reading
