I know that I have written about procrastination causing delays in the decluttering process but that is not the only role that procrastination plays when it comes to clutter. In many cases procrastination actually causes the clutter in the first place. What starts out as a good intention can soon turn into a failure to carry out a particular task that leaves in its wake a pile of clutter. For example... The hem on your daughter's dress has fallen and you put it aside to restitch but 2 months later it is still lying in an ever growing pile of other good intentions next to your sewing … [Read more...]
Day 348 I’m not a morning person – Bedroom mess clutter
How many times have you heard or said "But I'm no a morning person"? You know the story "not being a morning person" is a great excuse for continually having a messy bedroom. As a result of "not being a morning person"Â the bedroom turns into a disaster zone in the attempt to get ready for work each day. Needless to say when the "not a morning person" finally gets around to cleaning up the mess the very next day it's back to square one again. As for not being a morning person:- This is just a state of mind which can be reversed if you just let it go. The only reason a person isn't a … [Read more...]
Day 306 Focus
A guest post by Cindy Bogard I’ve often seen this bumper sticker: “Not all who wander are lost.†I think when it comes to household chores, that’s just not true. While writing a blog every day allows you to crow about your successes, it equally allows you to reveal your foibles. Today is a foible day. Here is what I did after returning home from lunch with a friend. I was wandering, and I was lost: Walk into the office, put down my purse, turn on the computer. Walk to the bathroom at the other end of the house to get an OTC medicine that I promise to give to a … [Read more...]
Day 151 Declutter your diet
I know this is getting a little off subject and I had my doubts whether I should go down this path but it was just a thought I had the other day and I decided to run it by you all. My thinking was that this slow and steady approach would probably work with changing a persons eating habits. The problem with most diets is the slap you in the face cold turkey approach where you change too much too soon and all you feel is deprivation. Couple this with the theory that it only takes two weeks of removing yourself from a certain temptation before the cravings start to disappear I believe a person … [Read more...]
Day 94 When a bargain isn’t a bargain
How many of you have things lingering in your home that were bargains too good to pass on. You know... that pair of shoes that really are a size to big but they were only $10 (you wore them once and they gave you such terrible blisters that you will never wear them again) the set of cutlery "they were just about giving away" that will come in handy when you have a dinner party for 12 even though your dining suite won't accommodate more than 8. the tent that was half price at the camp shop (when you actually went there to buy a travel jacket) that you had to have for when you … [Read more...]
Day 87 Replace old habits
I heard somewhere recently that it only take two weeks to start breaking out of old habits. The idea being, if you can persevere and ignore the cravings to continue in your old habit for two weeks, you will start to notice physically and mentally the change in your behaviour at this point and start to realise you can cope with the changes. Hoarding is a bad habit that most of us have an addiction to to some degree. A bad habit that for the sake of a neat and clutter free environment we need to break. According to the two week rule mentioned above once we set our mind to de-cluttering instead … [Read more...]