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Jul032009

Finders, Keepers... Hoarders, Weepers.
Through Creating Order from Chaos: http://creatingorderfromchaos.wordpress.com/ I found a link to an article on Oprah.com called Finders, Keepers, Hoarders, Weepers: http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/omag-200701-clutter-organize

It is the story of a woman who had a thudding realisation that she and her family could no longer live in the clutter they were living in, and her progress, made with the help of a 'house therapist' (who knew such a job existed?!).

Lots and lots and lots and lots of her stuff was discarded, donated or thrown out. She reckons she's still not perfect, but the steps she has taken are huge, and she has things in place to keep her home in the nice state it was after the big sort-out.

It's a good story to read if you are feeling like the job of dehoarding is just too much for anyone to manage. 

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Jul022009

5 Things I Can Live Without: Thursday
Following last week's post, I'm going to do this again!

1) The handbag I won in a raffle. It is not at all my style, and it is brand new so a charity shop would love it.

2) Two cookery books which I have been given as gifts, which I already owned.

3) The cartoon character t-shirt which I thought would be retro and cool, but is just a bit naff.

4) The pair of trousers with a big hole in, which I have been keeping to cut up and use in craft, but as I have been holding onto them for over a year, it is time to just throw them out.

5) Pile of craft magazines. I never reference them like I thought I would, so they can go.

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Jun302009

Every Day
I seem to spend a lot of my life avoiding doing the things I should be doing, hating myself for the avoidance and the mess, and becoming miserable through so much self-hate, then retreating into depression and getting even less done.

On Simplicity's post entitled Four Simple Ways To Make the Most of your Day is wonderful: http://www.onsimplicity.net/2009/06/four-simple-ways-to-make-the-most-of-your-day/

It truly is simplicity, it is manageable and I really feel it would make my life so much more meaningful and pleasant!

Basically, every day we should all:

1) Do one thing that scares us

2) Do one thing that soothes us

3) Do one thing for someone else

4) Do one thing for the future.

Put that way, it sounds easy, yet if we all did those four things every day, think how much we could achieve, and how much we could progress.

Thank you to OnSimplicity.net for such wisdom!

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Jun282009

Inspiration and Motivation.
You must, must read Organize! Control It, Or It Will Control You! http://www.drdeclutterblog.com/57/organize-control-it-or-it-will-control-you/

It is a totally motivating and inspiring post. I can't do it justice by even trying to summarise it, so I strongly recommend you go over there and read it for yourself.

While you're over there, also check out Benefits for Getting and Staying Organised: http://www.drdeclutterblog.com/610/the-benefits-for-getting-and-staying-organized/

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Jun272009

Saturday Quotation #11
"Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, 
find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies 
opportunity." 

-- Albert Einstein, 

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Jun252009

5 Things I Can Live Without: Thursday
Declutter A Little Each Day has '5 Things I Can Live Without Thursday': http://declutterblogg.blogspot.com/2009/06/5-things-i-can-live-without-thursday_18.html

As today is Thursday, I am going to give it a try. To think of 5 things in my possession that I can live without...

1) Some of my craft items. I don't use them much these days, and some has already gone out the door. More can definitely follow.

2) The two pairs of shoes given to me by a friend which, much as I would like them to, just do not fit.

3) My old mobile phone, now I have upgraded.

4) The trash bags still sitting around to be taken out to the bin!

5) Some of the software clogging up my computer memory which I don't use.

The next plan, of course, is to actually declutter these things! I will let you know how that goes.

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Jun232009

Easy Work Now or More Work Later?
Lorie from Clutter Diet Blog wrote "Easy Work Now, or Hard Work Later?": http://www.clutterdietblog.com/2009/06/maintenance.html

I really do know I have to work on this. That when I ignore a task, it does still need doing eventually and is probably tougher and less pleasant the longer I leave it. But despite a few exceptions, I'm not good at it. 

I'm trying to think of areas in my life where I already do this. If I can think of examples, however small, that might encourage me to do it more often, with more things.

1) I always untie my shoes before I take them off! I know that if I don't do this, then I'll be annoyed the next day when I have to untie them, put them on, and re-tie them.

2) I always put my scissors down in the same place. That way, I don't have to look for them when I need them.

I'm sure there must be more, but at this time in the morning, they are the only ones I can think of!

So, thinking about the scissors, I really appreciate that I can always find them, especially as they are an item which most people seem to lose regularly. Obviously, if everything I owned was always in exactly the right place, and I knew where that space was for each item, my life would run smoother, but that seems almost impossible. I could try and give a couple of regularly used items a definite space every week, and build up like that. I fear that if I do too many items at once then I wouldn't even remember which space contained which item when I needed them anyway.

The other thing that would help with that would be that the space was very logical for the item, i.e. that it would be in the place I usually use it, or that it would be with similar items.

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Jun222009

No Longer Mine in 2009
Amazingly, 300 carrier bags and 37 bin bags of Stuff are no longer mine since the start of 2009!

Getting to 300 carrier bags felt like a fantastic milestone. I'm proud of myself.

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