Sometimes I have the ability to see into the future. I see Future Me, deciding at the last minute to make mac 'n cheese for dinner. (Because mac 'n cheese is what I make at the last minute.) Future Me is in a hurry. She's a little frazzled. She grabs the box from the pantry and rushes to the stove. While she is trying to do a thousand other … [Read more...]
Less.
Continuing my Saturday challenge of doing Two Things at some point in a busy day, I decided to tackle my Junk Drawers. Remember them? I decluttered them long ago, in this post where I first came up with my two decluttering questions. They needed re-decluttering. Oh boy, did they. My clue that it was time was not so subtle. When you … [Read more...]
Using an Awkward Pause to Finish Laundry Day
It was 2:48. I needed to be at my kid’s school by 3:00. The school is five minutes away. It was officially an awkward pause in my day. What could I possibly accomplish in seven minutes? But it was a Monday, and Monday is Laundry Day. And I was rocking Laundry Day on that particular Monday. Really. When Laundry Day is consistent and I’m … [Read more...]
Someone Has to Teach Them
Like almost every mother since the beginning of time, I found myself thinking, "How did my son not see that huge mess??" My 13yo recently had a highly brag-worthy modeling job. The back of his head will appear on the cover of my mother's book that will release in September. That's the bigtime, y'all. Anyway, with the money he earned, he … [Read more...]
The Next Saturday: Decluttering Two (Or Three) More Things
It was the next Saturday. I had another small pocket of unclaimed time, and I decided to try my Two Things strategy again. This time, I followed my Visibility Rule the way it's supposed to be followed. Don't declutter something guests will never see. Declutter something out in the open that I've stopped seeing. Like this: My … [Read more...]
More Ideas for Containing Stuffed Animals
I started to title this, "More Ideas for Stuffed Animal Storage" but stopped myself. It's not about storing. It's about containing. By "it" I mean the way I have to think about my home to keep it from getting out of control. Storing means finding a place (or many places) to put things. Containing means designating a space, and letting that … [Read more...]
How Many Do I Need? Not that many.
I think about this question. I get asked this question. But any decluttering progress I've made has NOT been because I had an answer to this question. The best answer is simply, "Less." I need less. Or fewer. Whichever is grammatically correct for the situation. Less refers to something that can't be counted. Fewer is used when there … [Read more...]
Finding Storage Space in My House
One of my best/for-realest excuses reasons for clutter is I don't have much storage space in this house. Really. I don't. I have a tiny coat closet, one cabinet in the gameroom, and a pantry. But y'all, I've seen storage CLOSETS in other people's houses. Like, closets for no other purpose than storing stuff. One house we looked at had, … [Read more...]
My Special Circumstances (for Today)
Monday morning, my husband drank his coffee out of a cereal bowl. To be fair (to my slob self), our cereal bowls do have handles and could technically be called really big mugs. But still . . . I hadn't washed dishes since last Friday. I know. I KNOW I have to do dishes. I KNOW it is the habit upon which the state of my home … [Read more...]
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