The Elephant
What’s the deal with all the cleaning-house, decluttering, tossing-junk posts?
Well, here are links to a few posts to help answer that question:
If they don’t satiate your curiosity, just click on the “change” tag and follow this journey along from the beginning. (early April, 2010)
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Thank you for this post. It’s wonderful to know I’m not the only one, and that it’s normal for a mom of multiple kids. There’s many a day where I look around me and say “Where did it all come from? And what could I possibly get rid of?” I have a lot of the Don Aslett books (How to lose 200 lbs in a weekend, Clutter’s Last Stand, etc.) And they’re good for motivating when you want to chuck a bunch of stuff, but I’m at a stand still right now. I don’t even dare to open the book, because I have an elephant to toss. I’ll have to look into your book. Courage take. You’re doing awesome. Moving to Hawaii with the “weight allotment” definitely helped us pare back. But I wasn’t fluent in how to keep the clutter out, and it comes back so quick. Power to you. And don’t give up.
Thanks Molly! Welcome to Smithtopia. 🙂 Fighting clutter is an ongoing battle for sure. I should post a picture of the current front room… But I kinda like to pretend it isn’t there. Maybe if i make a case study of it and plan a post around it I’ll find some motivation to deal with it. Sigh…