This is going to sound so obvious ~ but I realized that what I have been doing this month (and in the past when I tried to get my house in order) is focusing on organizing without decluttering. I have had the goal of "getting organized" as one of my new year's resolutions for as long as I can remember. Every year I think to myself, "this is THE year... I am finally going to get organized once and for all!"
The problem is that if I don't get rid of things and declutter, then I am just moving stuff around. Putting things away and creating homes for my stuff is good, but if I still have the same amount of stuff, then I haven't completely solved the problem.
My goal for this month is to declutter. Truly declutter. That means I need to throw some things away and donate things that still have some life in them.
This weekend I filled up two more bags of my old clothes to donate. I dropped them off at Goodwill today when I was running errands. It feels good to get more things out of the house. I am slowly making progress.
This week we have an event or activity every single night. That makes getting dinner on the table a challenge, as well as making sure homework gets done, piano is practiced and the kids get to bed on time. When I do have a spare 15 minutes, I tend to use that time to read or watch tv. Decluttering always feels like something I need a big chunk of time for, so I tend to put it off and don't make much progress at all during the week. Some of the 31 days series I am following have smaller tasks that might fit into a 15 minute block of time (others have projects that will literally take me weeks... ahem, my master closet), so I am going to work on smaller tasks during the week and focus on bigger projects on the weekends.
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