November 29

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It’s Hard to Put the Brakes On Decluttering



After spending the last few months decluttering, I need to put the brakes on for a few weeks.  It will be Christmas soon so I need to focus on finishing the front porch and keeping the downstairs cleaned up.  It’s kind of fun to let it get a little messy and then see how quickly I can clean it up again!

I’m really anxious to keep working on my decluttering but I think it would be a disaster to start anything new right now.  I have to finish the porch so I can put the little desk out there so I can move the other desk so we can put the tree up this weekend.  There’s so many other places that I want to declutter right now like my bathroom closet.  I can’t wait to get everything out of there.  You can’t open the door without things falling out.  My goal is get rid of at least 100 things from the closet.

The next project that I can’t wait to start is my bedroom.  It’s a disaster!  I usually spend January getting it all cleaned out and it looks like it will be the same this year.  If I can get started any sooner, I will but I need to keep my focus – front porch and keeping the downstairs cleaned up.  I figure that Christmas will be here before we know it and then after that, it’s back to all the decluttering!  I can’t wait!!

I almost have the one side of my front porch done.  I’m still aiming to have it done by the weekend.  I got rid of a few more things today but not many.  I was able to take some horse stuff out the barn which helps a lot.  I might be sorry that I did that come April but it needs to all be put together.  It’ll be easier to go through it that way.  I also put some chairs and camping gear into our camper.  I’m not sure how the porch became the catch all place.

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  • Can’t wait for January either, to start the next 21 day declutter challenge (yeah… Christmas is way to close to start now.. and as you’ve probably seen.. I’m struggling with the paper challenge… so I’ll be needing the rest of December for that one).. we can tackle your bedroom “together” 😉 well OK, you’ll have to tackle it.. we will cheer you on 😉 😉

      • LOL, yes it’s soon declutter time, I can’t wait.

        Unfortunately I have had to throw in the towel on my paper challenge though 🙁 My head’s not getting any better, and I just had to give it all up… for now (you can read about it in today’s post).

        That’s not stopping me from planning our declutter round come new years though.. this head of mine MUST have eased up by then!!! 😉

  • What?? Brakes on de-cluttering?? You scared me there for a minute, Jen! lol
    Great going on the porch progress so far! Why will you be sorry in April that you put all the horse stuff in the barn?
    Isn’t that the logical place? I never had horses, so I have no idea!
    Focusing on maintaining, and on Christmas sounds like a terrific plan to me!

    • LOL!!! There’s just so much horse stuff!! It should be at the barn but I’m making a mountain there that I’m not going to want to go through then anymore than I want to now!! 🙂

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