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This #1 New York Times best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.
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This is what my desk looked like at the end of April 2009.
I like to think of it as organised clutter.
Apr 2009
I won't lie, part of me just feels like giving up on de-crapping at this point.
:-(
I'll just take the day off and start fresh, tho.
I'm just glad the wall got taken care of...
last day of winter break. She wanted to declutter her room, he wanted to play crazy 8's and bake, I wanted fresh air in the sunshine. Wishes granted all around.
We’re not greedy, we say. It’s everyone else who is acquiring useless stuff. ~ Judith Levine
I've found that despite reading quite a number of self-help decluttering books, actually shifting stuff out of my house, out of my comfort zone, out of my life, isn’t always simple. More and more I realize how easy it is to lapse into keeping and longing for too much stuff, all the while recognizing that stuff isn’t going to change my life for the better.
So, why do we gather stuff and why do we hang on to it, often long after it has served any useful purpose? Often for me it's about emotional ties - there is the stuff people give me that I feel obliged to keep, and there is the stuff that speaks to me of good times or of times I held on and made it through despite the odds. For me, a lot of my stuff speaks to my past, a past I have often yet to make peace with. I realize that even that’s an excuse – emotional pain forming a barrier to utilizing common sense but still, it's very real.
Deep down, I also know that it’s the memory in my mind’s storage that needs dusting off the most. When I’ve learned to dissociate memories from stuff, I know I’ll find it easier to let go. Until then, I'll keep trying to spend wisely, declutter when the mood descends, and ask myself “Do I really need that?”. There will be times this doesn't work, but I'll keep working on it.
In creating a pathway to a more minimalist lifestyle, I'm going to practice:
* Acceptance that I am the sum of my relationships, my health, my dreams, my hopes, my sanity, my connections, and not the sum of what I have.
* Self-forgiveness for my inevitable moments of weakness while living in a society driven by a “stuff solution” for every problem.
* Realization that she who dies with the most toys doesn't delay the inevitable. It’s the journey that matters, not the collecting, it's the legacy of who I am, the love I have spread, that lives on, not what I owned.
So now there’s another “R” for me. Recycle, reuse, reduce, and release.
How do you let go of the "stuff" that isn't either useful or beautiful in your life? Please share your thoughts in the comments.
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Spring cleaning means getting your rubber gloves on and giving your home a good scrub down! You will undoubtedly dust, vacuum, organize your closets, and declutter as you see fit. However, the one aspect of spring cleaning that often gets overlooked is the fireplace. Few homeowners understand just how much dust, grime, and allergens can …
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All the serving utensils went into the drawer to the left of the stove. These are most often used when we have company. I want to get some dividers or containers to organize them.
Blogged at christmasnotebook.com/2008/02/05/wanna-beclutter-free/.
Quick project to build a second hanging bookshelf for my office, which will allow me to declutter considerably.
With finish...
30 Day "D" Challenge Day 6 - Today's official goal was digging out and donating 2 random kitchen bits I've literally never used: a microwave bacon/egg maker, and a plastic "Taco tray" which is basically a round dish with a bunch of compartments for organizing small toppings. They both went in the donate pile, and in the process I also picked up a cabinet organizer and made a better place for my cutting boards and largest baking sheet.
always clean top to bottom. i cleared all the stuff from one shelf at a time and did a cursory wipe-down until i knew where everything was going--some was to be kept, some was going to goodwill. i prefer to suck up dust first (with the vacuum) and then wipe it down with an old rag. my furniture polish is vinegar, scented with lemon oil, and some organic light olive oil.
The more you know, the less you need.
— Aboriginal proverb
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She did such a great job sorting, purging, donating, and finding homes for each craft, star student!
Quote: "Photo two is from our computer room/supposed dining room. We have never dined in here though since building the home more than 8 years ago. My mum never gets rid of anything, and we have a pool table cluttered with stuff. There is so much junk in this room, not to mention spiders.... full of old manuals for prodcust we no longer own, books, random toys and more. We NEED a storage solution, some shelving, a bookcase, etc"
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Today's 30-Day "D" Challenge was to start the "Scary closet project" which meant pulling out and "Donating" all the spare plastic hangars, and unboxing the new slimline hangars. As clothes get worn, the plastic hanger they're on will get removed, and they'll go back in the closet on the new slim hangars. This way I can tell by the hangar what things I'm not wearing (then donate those as necessary) plus I gain some closet space back by using the slimmer hangars. Win-win! (Anybody need about a million plastic hangars?)