I spent all of last week, well between spinning special orders :) , decluttering! We were living in total chaos - piles everywhere. Everytime you walked down the hall, something would fall off the bookshelf. "Mama, where are my ....?" was a daily occurence. "Kim, do I have any clean underwear?" Boxes of fiber filled our bedroom. The kid's playroom was so cluttered with toys that they didn't even play in there. I dreaded everytime I had to go into the pantry, because I had to step over and on stuff in the floor. And if I got a can off the shelf, 2 more would fall on the floor. I had about 47 jars of pickles I had canned from 07 that had turned to mush. My dishwasher and table were catch all places for more piles. YIKES! So, last week, I don't know if it's menopause setting in, or just the good Lord chastising me for this total failure in being a keeper at home, I decided "THAT"S IT!" I wished I had taken before and after pics, but I didn't. We have given 3 carloads of stuff to Habitat for Humanity and thrown out 2 truckloads of trash. Now, I am seeing the light!!! I love it!! I can relax, well as much as I can relax! When Gene came home and saw the bedroom with no fiber boxes or homeschool stuff, he started running from one wall to the other - jumping and skipping around like a school boy, saying "I can walk , I can walk, I can walk!"
I moved the kids bedroom into the playroom and got rid of a lot of the toys they don't play with anymore. They love it! They are spending more time in there creating and reading! Who would have thought?? There clothes are all folded and organized and Gracie comes out every morning dressed and ready for the day!
I made their bedroom my fiber room and homeschool storage. That room is a mess right now, but that's the only one! I will tackle that this week. Then deep cleaning and we are all ready for the holidays!!
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| Pantry - note floor and organization of canned goods! |
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| Cleared top! |
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| No clutter! |
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| My linen closet. It has a floor! I haven't seen that in years! This is a closet where you would pull something out and close the door quickly by leaning into it with all your weight until it latched! |
If I can do it, you can do it!!! And I can't begin to say how much joy and peace come with the hard work. Word of warning: Your home will look much worse in this process before it looks better. Decluttering is a messy business, but so worth it. God made us women to be keepers of our homes and that is to be taken seriously. When we have a clean home we bring honor and our Lord and to our family.
Take care!
Kim
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