declutter my house

It is amazing we have given away over 25 kitchen garbage bags full of toys, clothes, office supplies, and other unwanted items. We filled a dumpster with trash!

Screened in porch: DONE
My Closet: DONE
Bathroom: DONE
Attic: DONE
Office: 2/3 Done
Bedroom: 2/3 Done
Living Room: DONE
Kitchen: 1/2 Done

We are so there! We will finish in the time frame and it feels great! Clutter feels awful.

The next big project will be the two sheds… and they will be done by January 1! YES!!!

How easy it is to give away my daughters outgrown things! There is a fantastic 11 year old in town who a) adores all things pink and b) adores my daughter. So, old stuff meet new owner! Happy girls all.

I just called our local consignment store and they are accepting clothes for fall and I just cleaned out a huge amount of suits, blouses, and dress pants that I will never wear again. So, tomorrow after the Farmers Market I will be off to Berryville to bring my clothes. YEAH!

I am so happy that we finally took our first boxes of books to the library book sale. They collect books all year for a twice annual sale. People plan their vacations around these book sales they are so good. Hopefully our little donation will be helpful.

We had, because my sparkly girl loves puffy things, a HUGE crinoline that would go under a wedding dress. It was the ultimate play thing… but today it was decided that at age 17 it could give it to the thrift store. Oh we are on our way. One small step at a time to a decluttered house!

I can not stand living like a packrat any longer! The truth of the matter is our actual living areas look lovely. That is because everything is hidden in closets, under the stairs, shoved in the shed, or crammed in some other spot. It is time to stop this.

This all happened when 4 years ago we had 1 week to move from the house we were renting to this house that we bought. It was raining, we had to have friends help us pack, and I had no idea where to put anything. So we just shoved things in boxes and then piled them in closets.

There are boxes full of things that I have not seen for over 4 years.

Pathetic. SO, I am going to do this in incremental steps. 10 minutes a day with full days devoted to this. I am going to be ruthless. I will always get more stuff, so why hold onto this stuff.

My goal is to be done before December 1… just in time to decorate for the holidays.

I am so working on this. It is so time consuming, but when I do it I feel great. I have several sheds and closets that I can’t even open. I guess if I just made a list of all the things that needed to be done and crossed them off I would feel better about it. Part of me wonders though why do it… the stuff is out of sight no one knows it is there… who really cares, but the other side of me thinks I would be less anxious if I had less stuff crammed in corners.