I love to share what I am decluttering with you.
It helps me to be accountable and I hope it encourages you to keep an eye out for the little projects you can do here and there in your home.
The hall closet.
On a recent coaching call, I confessed to my ladies in the Life on Purpose Academy that I noticed this weird smell in my hall closet and was putting off cleaning it out.
Just saying that outloud was like OOF! Accountability! Why do I keep putting this off?
So I pulled everything out, cleaned the cupboards and put back in what we wanted to keep here.
We took some stuff out for thrift and some put into deeper storage because it isn’t used often.
All in all it took me 20 minutes (from looking at the time stamp in my photos).
20 MINUTES!
👉🏼 20 minutes was what I could pay to help me have one less thing that I took as evidence that I am a negligent failure of a housewife because of this task I was putting off.
Now I get to feel like I GET STUFF DONE!
The other thing I want you to be empowered by is that decluttering is not a one and done thing.
And this should be relieving – because you don’t need to find this week of magical free time where you can dedicate yourself to decluttering your whole home. I mean,if you have it, that is great! But don’t let it be THE CONDITION that you must meet in order to even get started.
Decluttering is a routine. It is something that will always be happening because PEOPLE LIVE HERE! And life is messy and has a lot of extras and seasonal things we grow out of.
So make decluttering part of your regular life, 20 minutes a week will do more for you than waiting for this weekend with no plans and lots of motivation. Do both of those ever really happen together??
Also, I put up these curtains over our bedroom closet and my office closet.
We have lived here for almost 10 years and our bedroom remains one of the few rooms that has gone untouched. I dream of renoing this space, but for now it satisfies a certain aesthetic I call HOSPITAL CHIC (+ teal shag carpets that are possibly back in trend somehow).
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