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July 5th, 2018 at 12:56 am

Rob62521 asked me about whether reading books about decluttering and minimalist has helped. This was my answer. And I decided to make a blog post about it just for keeping a record.

Yeah the books has been great in helping us see how ridiculous some of the reasons we have for keeping stuff around. I don't think we will be really become a minimalist but we want to live a simpler life. We are not really hoarders to start with (I think?) but we are trying to learn new habits that will hopefully help us be more organise and have a clutter free house. Getting rid of the excess stuff will definitely help and to be more selective in what we allow into the house hopefully will minimise stuff accumulating to start with.


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This is where my focus at the moment. Financially almost everything what we are doing is set automatically. So I guess, I needed a new hobby and this is one of them -simplifying my life.

This is a total turn around to what I was think we should do just over a year or so ago. AT one stage I was seriously thinking of turning one of our spare room into a walk-in closet. I even took measurements, drawn up a plan and made a list of things to get to build shelves and what not. I think I spent another 2 months thinking about it and try to convinced DH that we should do it. After a while, for some reason I decided that it was going to be too much work (& DH wasn't too keen on doing all that work) and I guess my interest in my grand plan waned and I decided that instead of spending my time constantly organising stuff that I should just get rid of them. Now my aim is to only have enough clothing that would fit in our tall boy and a small hanging area (about a metre long). We are almost there probably another 10 to 15% to go. We got rid of a lot already. We got 2 tall boys at the moment and one of them is almost empty, once that is not needed it will be gone. Right now I am happier with this option.

Posted in Goals, Progress, Goal Achievement, Decluttering | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Decluttering”

  1. Jenn Says:
    July 5th, 2018 at 03:32 am 1530761534
    1530761534

    When I read the book ' The life-changing Magic of tidying...', one of the points that impacted me was about people being focused on organizing clutter instead of reducing it. I saw myself! Since then I have less interest in organization systems.

    I'm glad you're planning to enjoy your spare room now.

  2. rob62521 Says:
    July 5th, 2018 at 01:38 pm 1530797909
    1530797909

    Good point on being more choosy about bringing more stuff in after your initial declutter. I'm glad the books have helped motivate you.

  3. CB in the City Says:
    July 5th, 2018 at 03:14 pm 1530803662
    1530803662

    I have a friend who obsessively organizes clutter. It's still clutter! I just have to shake my head.

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    December 3rd, 2018 at 02:07 pm 1543846025
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