Friend and I were just talking today about getting rid of JUNK in our respective houses!
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If you have any tips for that, let me know.
Not any tips that have worked completely! You’d think that being stuck at home for a year, I would have made some headway, but nooooo...
Doing a version of Marie Kondo ‘does it spark joy’ tends to work for me, but mine is ‘if I didn’t own this would I buy it again?’. If the answer is no, out it goes! I don’t do the ‘bring everything together in a pile’ either.
Another thing that works for me mentally is the Swedish Death Cleaning. As in, do I want my kids/friends/spouse have to clean all this out after I croak? For me, that’s a big no!
Third thing, since I’m a big procrastinator, is use a timer. Even 15 minutes can get a lot done. Don’t make such a big mess that you’re spending another hour putting stuff away when you’re exhausted. Things didn’t get this way overnight! Won’t get fixed overnight either.
Fourth, picture what you want your home to look like. I want mine to look like a hotel. Others might want their family photos where they can easily see them. But they can’t because of the stuff.
And...I just discovered that I never finished this post last night before I fell asleep! So I’m finishing it up now! LOL