Create no new clutter

I still find it exceptionally difficult to ‘create no new clutter’. However. We will be renovating our house sometime soon, so the clutter has to go. I do NOT want to pay to store clutter whilst the house is full of builders. Furniture, fine. Clutter, no.

I must say though, that I HAVE become very good at putting dry laundry and dry dishes away the same day they’re dry! No longer do I hunt through the washing basket looking for clothes (and haven’t for over a year), ‘cause they’re all in the cupboard.

Hmmm… Maybe I’m not so bad as I thought…

A friend offered to come over & cook us dinner! (My partner just got back from 3 months working overseas). Of course that meant that EGAD! we had to tidy the house.

SO now the kitchen, lounge & dining room are all quite clutterless. (In contrast, the bedroom, study and sleepout are clutterful. That’s a GREAT word, isnt’ it??) The challenge is to keep the clutter away. AROINT THEE, foul clutter of the night!!

This ALSO means inciting the same “clutter-less passion” in my beloved.

Wish me luck!

...if you don’t count the kitchen!

I know I need to work in small, manageable steps. Step 1 is NOT to de-clutter the entire house! That’s just crazy talk! Step 1 is to put away everything I use as I finish using it. AND put away everything I WASH (as in dishes, laundry) when it’s dry. Once I’ve got this under control, I’ll expand into ‘de-clutter’ mode. Wish me luck!