Hey everyone! Sorry it's been SO LONG since I last blogged. I started an exercise regime and it's been about two weeks before I had enough strength/ stamina to declutter AND workout.
Well, I worked on my kids rooms. WHAT A MESS! I enlisted the help of my mom, who very graciously came over to help me. There is nothing wrong to admit that a job is too big for you and you need help. Shoot, the cleaning got done faster and I don't feel fried from being so over whelmed.
Kids rooms are far different than any other room, because you have to do the whole room instead of little project parts of it, since the kids like to play in there and will just undo everything. Hence the reason why it's a mess in the first place.
Now I forgot to take a picture of my daughters room before I got started,...
But rest assure it pretty well looked like my sons room, but with girly toys.
Dear me. No wonder he cries when I tell him to clean his room....
Well, just as we've been doing for all of the other rooms, we sort the room, throw away trash, and give away as much as we can. My son was at school at the time, so I made executive decisions, just as I did with my daughters room, but there are a few things like the stuffed animals that we will go through together and he'll choose what to keep and what to give away. It's good practice.
Ta da! When my son came home from school his sister grabbed him by the hand, before he even had a chance to take off his shoes, and lead him to his room. "See! See! It's all clean now!" she cried. It's was so cute. My son said, "Wow mom! It's all clean! I love it!". I said, "New rule in the house is, 'keep it clean'. If you take a toy out, you put it away. All toys, books, and anything else on the floor must be put away before we leave the house or go to bed". He says he's going to keep it clean, so we'll see.
Oh, and here's just a few bags of give away's from his room. His sister had quite a few too. Ah freedom...
So far in my journey to declutter I have found that the less stuff you have the easier it is to clean. Such a simple idea, but yet in a world where everything is now, instant, always available, it's easy to get bombarded with stuff. One of the thoughts that I work against all the time is, "what if I need it later". Again, in this world of now, instant, always available, if for whatever reason I need it again, it will be out there somewhere for me. But obviously if I'm not using it now and don't have any plans on using it in the near future, then I probably don't need it to begin with. It's a challenge. It's tough. It's a totally new way of thinking. A rewiring of the brain perhaps. I think it will come with time.
Until next time!
With Love,
Emily
