declutter 15 minutes a day

You see, I have done one (1) installment on this goal: the first day I joined. After that: nada. Now that I have joined the Let’s clean together! goal, I will take this one off my list. To put it bluntly: I need the space on my goals list. So think of it as decluttering. ;-)

I have so much stuff, just stuff, accumulated from different times in my life, add into that my husband’s stuff and the place it awful. 15 minutes is actually a long time to just declutter and it adds up day after day.

Although I’m not really yet at decluttering for 15 minutes a day, I have learned that have to start packing up about 10 minutes before I want to leave, and that this habit leaves everything neat and makes everything nicer when I start tomorrow.

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

with visitors! As for washing….!

Almost literally ‘bagged’ two days in one by putting all of the spare (old, not-fitting, etc.) clothes in two garbage bags and putting them in the recycle/charity box. Gone!

So I’m adopting the goal. :)

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!