declutter 15 minutes a day

my life list. For me, too many goals = too unfocused

with visitors! As for washing….!

I’ve got through several months worth of ‘15 minutes a day’ in the last few days before visitors arrive in about 3 hours. This means the house is in a generally not very tidy state rather than the embarrassing tip it was a couple of weeks ago. This is a good result and I hope I can manage 15 minute bites, after the visitors and the hols, to improve the house more gradually and to keep the mountain of stuff from overwhelming me.

...I can see my bedroom floor – nearly all of it! Nearly everything that was cluttering it is in labelled boxes. Not much left now to declutter in there.

I still love this ‘15 minutes a day’ method for getting myself going. Did about 10×15 minutes today.

completely sorted!

in the living room cleaned, tidied, books not wanted put in charity shop box.

I’d like to finish the first phase of decluttering most of the house by next weekend. I’m very pleased indeed with what I’m managing to accomplish.

all my silk painting and batik things

but more of it is in the ‘to file’ box and more in the recycling. I’m starting to feel (marginally) more in control and less likely to suffocate under a paper avalanch. That’s another hour of 15 minutses (yay)

one of the upstairs bedrooms, part of my office and completed the area round the dining table – about 3 hours!