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If I Don’t Know What to Do With It . . .

February 19, 2015 By Dana White 8 Comments

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Decluttering with Kids If I Don't Know What to Do With It at ASlobComesClean.com
Look at this cute, odd velvet bow-type-thingy.

My daughter and I worked in her room on Monday while the kids were out of school for President’s Day.

When I ran across the bow, I knew I recognized it. I just couldn’t quite place it. She knew. Grammy gave her a jean jacket for Christmas that included lots of interesting funkiness. I think it was based on the new Annie movie. My 8yo liked the button-related funkiness, but the oddly-shaped bow?

Notsomuch.

She doesn’t have a problem expressing her likes and dislikes.

Anyway, I asked her if we should keep it.

Surely. SURELY we could do something with it. SOMEthing.

She said, “If I don’t know what to do with it, I don’t want to keep it.”

I said “OK.”

And thought, “She’s right. It hurts my soul a little, but she’s right.”

Yay for children maybe (possibly, hopefully) not suffering from Decluttering Paralysis like their mamas do/did.

 

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107shares 96 0 11 Last Tuesday, I posted this cutesy little pic on Instagram: Ummm, I planned to spend “some time that morning” cleaning it up. I’d been putting off cleaning this mess because it just made more sense to wait until my 7th grader was done sawing styrofoam for a school project. I’m excessively […]

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281shares 246 0 35 I’m a hemmer. Not the kind who follows through on the logic of buying a way-too-long pair of pants for a bargain price. I’m a hemmer/hawer. Like, I take a while to do things that shouldn’t take any time at all. Because I hem and haw about it. So I’m (ridiculously) […]

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