This week has been about keeping moving. I’m not sure why things have felt so difficult, but it has been a struggle to get the basics completed; maybe it is because I haven’t been having high quality sleep or perhaps it is an impact of B telling me she is sad at school.
BUT; I have a vision of a tidy, decluttered house. I know my personality and I have to keep working towards this every week, because if I miss a week I know I’m likely to miss a second and then a third and then I’ll give up. So having reviewed the other two drawers in my bedside table and not found any items to remove, I decided I didn’t have the energy to start on my clothes, and I broke my rule of moving clockwise around the room.
I chose two drawers that were close to becoming junk drawers. The first one really only needed tidying and although I removed a lot of items from it, I’m keeping the hairbrushes and styling tools but have moved them to a more logical place. The second drawer used to be in the kitchen of our old house and has old paperwork in it waiting to review.
This week I’ve recycled
- Instructions for curling tongs I no longer have
- A 2012 planning diary (to do lists and shopping lists)
- Several leaflets I picked up at a local craft fair in 2012
As I haven’t got a picture of the items I’ve decluttered this week, I thought I’d share one from my teens that gives an indication of the length of my clutter habit. How old is your clutter habit? How did it start?
Gosh why do we keep instructions for appliances. If I ever wanted said instructions I can bet I’d never find them but clear out a random draw and there they are clogging up the bottom. Funny
We have two drawers filled with instructions so hopefully we would find the correct one if we needed it, but in general I look on the web first so should probably try and find electronic versions to keep on my computer instead of paper ones.
We’ve been having a massive de-clutter at home before our new baby arrives, apparently our property is quite nice when you can actually see it! 5 bag fulls to the charity shop today, but I also know I have a draw full of instructions for kitchen appliances which I’ve never read…!
Well done on clearing out 5 bags; it really helps having a motivator to remove things. The bit that really annoys me about instruction manuals is how they thick they are because they include lots of different languages, if they were thinner they wouldn’t take up as much room. I have thought about tearing off the UK section, but them I’m worried about the pages falling apart and not being able to find them all if I want them.