Digging Out From Under the Clutter
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Five years ago, on my birthday in May of that year, it suddenly dawned on me that I was no further ahead than I was twenty years ago and I needed a five year plan. My income has gone up but so has the cost of everything else proportionately. The house was the same, my
Every time I do something drastic, like taking everything out of the house or a room, I wonder why I didn’t do it a long time ago. While the weather was beautiful, we worked on taking everything out of the backyard. I didn’t think it looked too bad before, but with almost everything out now,
Yep! I’ll admit it. I’m cheating. Everything is in a storage unit! I couldn’t take it anymore. It all needed to get out. The whole house was overflowing. It was hard to remember what the house looked like underneath it all and I wanted to see it without all the stuff. Everyone was getting frustrated.
A storage unit could be exactly what you need to finally free yourself from too much stuff! Or it could backfire so think carefully before you choose this route. When there’s no place else to go in your house with another thing and there’s no place left to sort because you have too much stuff,
There’s been no idle time at my house for years. I have no idea what idle means. But now, with nothing in the house, that’s all I have and I’m lost! There’s a lot of things that I could, or should, be doing like: Unloading the dishwasher. Filling up boxes. Emptying the bathroom closet. Mopping
In a little over two weeks, I’ll have to start dealing with all of our stuff again so I need to create a good cleaning routine. It takes between a few weeks and a few months to form a habit and I badly need a cleaning habit! Even though there’s not much here at the
Cleaning up right after having a party was never really a thing for me. I’ve always cleaned the day after the party and I wasn’t planning to do it differently this time. But something was different this time. Since I hadn’t spent all morning cleaning, I wasn’t completely exhausted. I wasn’t yelling at everyone else
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