by  Jen   

It’s Saturday and I finally have a little down time.  I can’t believe how busy things have been around here.  Although most of it has been work related, a lot of other things have been going on too.  Unfortunately, none of it has involved cleaning or decluttering or anything else that I enjoy doing. Today,

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by  Jen   

I have been running in high gear for the past few weeks with no reprieve in sight. I’ve had 3 big projects at work, a couple of 4-H meetings to plan and run, a sick kiddo, and a brand new, very first grandbaby to visit. Yay!  It’s been intense and exhausting leaving me with no

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by  Jen   

Yes, it’s February and my tree is still up.  The last two years there was so much clutter that I took the tree down as soon as possible after Christmas.  There wasn’t room for it.  This year, the tree was in a new spot for the first time since I bought the house 18 years

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by  Jen   

Things in the kitchen aren’t really good things to take pics of.  Most of the things to get rid of belong in the garbage rather than a donation box.  I keep throwing things away before I remember to save them for the pic.  Unfortunately, it’s probably going to throw my count off but I’ll keep

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by  Jen   

Every time I get rid of things, they’re almost immediately replaced by a well meaning person.  I always wonder if I’m blessed for giving things away or if I’m cursed and I’ll always have a hoard of stuff at my house. It’s been less than a week since I donated all those bags of clothes

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by  Jen   

It’s been hard starting on the kitchen.  Every room has been hard to start on.  It’s so overwhelming for those first few days.  I’m taking it really slowly with the kitchen though and it didn’t help that I kept procrastinating all week long.  Finally, I decided to start with one cabinet shelf a day.  It

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by  Jen   

Ok, here’s before and after pics of my bedroom. Well, one side of it anyways.  It’s a long skinny room and it was feeling very claustrophobic in there with things caving in on both sides.  The clothes were piling up higher and higher.  It’s easy to see why it was so hard to relax in

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