Quicker Cleaning

My daughter’s wedding is coming up so I have been working on lightening the load to make things easier by cleaning and decluttering as much as I can. I was pleasantly surprised today when I got home to clean up my living room. I had two hours to work on it and didn’t think I would even make a dent. It was amazing how much better it looked in that short amount of time!  Yay!  I forgot that decluttering meant Quicker Cleaning!! Bonus!  It’s taking a long time to get away from the idea of it being perfect. If there’s not piles of clutter around, straightening it up is enough.

As usual, the living room is the catch-all place for everything so I started in there in the corner by the front door. There were quite a few things in the pathway that were just in here waiting to get taken out the front door. There were some empty boxes and my daughter’s horse show clothes that she left in the doorway after the weekend shows.

Getting used to good enough is the tricky part. There’s way too many pairs of shoes in the shoe cubbies but rather than pull them all out and go through them right now, I’m going to leave them. They’re stashed away. They’re not all over the floor. They’re good enough where they are and they can stay there. I can resume decluttering efforts after the wedding this weekend and they are fine where they’re at.  I’ve also made sure to put things in the rooms they belong in.  Some of the rooms are too packed for the things I’m putting in them but I feel like that’s what I need to do – overstuffed or not. The front porch is one of those areas.

Decluttering makes for Quicker Cleaning

It looks so much better and didn’t take long at all to clean up!  Unfortunately, I still have that ugly black chair in a place that I don’t want it.  I wish I could get rid of it but there’s not much seating in here.  It needs to stay until I have the money to get something different and find the time to make it all work. You can’t always declutter everything you want to right away!  Sometimes you have to wait for the replacements first.

When I started this afternoon, I didn’t think there was any way that I would finish this room today but now I have hope! The other side of the room has a lot of clutter too but now I feel like I can tackle it! I love this decluttering effort! It’s taking forever but it’s so worth it! It’s so nice to see results after all the hard work! The lighter load definitely makes the cleaning easier and much faster.