by  Jen   

Thanksgiving has never been my favorite holiday. There’s no particular reason why. I always found it depressing even though we had plenty of family around. For a few years, we would invite friends over who didn’t have any place else to go. That was fun and everything but it was a lot of work because

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by  Jen   

It’s midnight.  Today did not go as I expected.  The plan was to go to work, participate in a potluck lunch, then come home and clean for awhile.  What?  Cleaning all in one day and not panicking about it? Anyways, I made it to work okay and the day was progressing at a good pace.  It

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by  Jen   

It’s taken me a year to get the living room to the point where I’m not embarrassed to let anyone in. Even though I’ve gotten rid of over 1,300 things, there’s still way too much stuff in here. Early in the decluttering process, I was wondering how other people could have things but not have

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by  Jen   

My son and his wife are coming next week! Yay!! They aren’t going to be able to stay here yet but it’s getting close. Maybe by next Thanksgiving. I’m sure they’ll be coming over though and the living room will be ready. I’m hoping to have the kitchen and bathroom cleaned up too which just

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by  Jen   

I’ve been working hard on not making a dent this morning!  After two hours of going through a bucket of cookbooks and moving things around, my daughter came downstairs and told me the exact same thing that I was thinking, you can’t tell that I’ve done anything!  But, I’m going to count today and add

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by  Jen   

The other day, I unburied the extra couch in the living room.  Today, it’s buried again. It took about five minutes to lose it.  Here’s what happened.  There’s a dining room table in the corner.  It has kind of become a catch all table with things underneath it too.  I cleaned off the top by

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by  Jen   

There hasn’t been a single minute to do any decluttering in days!  Between work and kid activities, I feel like I haven’t been home in a week with no end to it in sight.  We have gotten to the barn a couple times, which is great, but other things have been neglected, like my front

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