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January Declutter Calendar Coming Soon!
Hey everyone! I’m working on a January Declutter Challenge calendar! My goal is to share a calendar with you for daily items to declutter in about 15-minutes per day! These will be items that most everyone will be able to get rid of at least a few items daily! I am working through it right now with a friend of mine as the guineapig! Drop your email address in the subscribe information at the bottom and I’ll be sure to get you more information about it! I plan to share photos, directions, ideas on what to do with the clutter, and YouTube videos to work through this together! See if…
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Minimal Packing for a Family Trip: Less Stuff and More Fun
Minimal Packing for a Family Trip: Less Stuff and More Fun I used to be a chronic over packer! I can remember lines at the airport where I was unzipping my overly stuffed suitcase and taking items out just to jam them into an already full carry-on bag. All of this to try and get the weight on my suitcase to an acceptable level! The first time I flew with my husband we were headed to Mexico for an all-inclusive 7-day trip, and I had over 55 pounds of stuff with me! Just me! Not me and him! I can remember getting a little nervous as we got to the…
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Still Getting Hung-Up Decluttering? It Happens!
As far as I’ve come, I still get hung up…I guess I’m saying this to make sure that we are all giving ourselves grace and asking the right questions to weed out the hard stuff. I have gotten rid of thousands of items, literally thousands, but this past weekend I got hung up by a 12-year-old pair of shorts. Yep! A 12-year-old pair of shorts. These shorts are still cute (to me), they are a classic look, they still fit, and are still in good shape. As a matter of fact, I have two pairs of these shorts. One black pair and one blue pair. I love the blue pair. …
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Christmas Gluttony with a Family
Well another Thanksgiving has come and gone, and what must follow the Thanksgiving holiday, but Black Friday. This is my second Thanksgiving and Black Friday with our youngest daughter, and I find myself wondering how to prepare for Christmas. Christmas is often a time that many of us purchase things that we don’t need and give others things that they don’t need. This is something I want to change with our youngest daughter, but even as she will only be 14 months old I feel pressure to consume to show our 14 month old daughter “our love.” She doesn’t need anything as we have been showered in gifts for her and many…
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Crap Baskets: Family Organization
Our family of five lives in a home that is spread over three smaller levels. Two of the kids downstairs, my husband and I on the main level, and our youngest daughter upstairs. This makes for strong legs and many trips up and down or sometimes launching stuff that’s been abandoned to the end of the stairs and praying someone else will pick it up when they walk by…the launch and pray rarely works here! Enter life changing “Crap Baskets.” You may want to come up with a better name. I will admit that I regretted naming these crap baskets when our children also started calling them crap baskets. The concept of a crap basket…
