Dana K. White

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Reality-Based Cleaning, Decluttering, & Organizing

The Master Bedroom Saga Part SIX: Clutter is Gone(ish), It’s Time to Clean!

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Time for another post in the Master Bedroom Saga!

I know.  I missed putting one up last week.  So here’s my excuse (insert 31 Days of Excuses plug here):  I was busy.  And life trumps blogging.

But now I’m back with a new post and webisode in the series.  If you’re new, you should probably catch up by reading (and watching) posts one, two, three, four, and five in the series.

I know.  That’s a lot of posts.  And this isn’t even the last one.

Here’s what I wrote in my journal about this project:

(Please note that even though this is Part Six in the series, the individual days were very long and so this cleaning was done on Day Three. Confusing enough?)

I took yesterday off.  Now to try to remember everything from Day Three.  Basically, I cleaned.  Like crazy.  I fully plan to write a post called, “How to Dust when Your Home Could Pass for a Haunted House.”I moved things.  I grunted.  I took down my curtains that had never been taken down in the six years we lived here. 

I remembered to change clothes in the bathroom since the curtains weren’t there.

I washed those curtains and then as I pulled them out of the washing machine, realized how much I hated their color and style.

Hmmmm.  That was interesting.

I never “minded them” too much before.  But there’s something about the act of putting them back up that feels wronger (yes, I said wronger) than just “leaving them up.”

Not quite sure what I’m going to do about that.  I like the plain look of my blackout curtains.

So much simpler.

I am now washing (slowly, but surely . . . hopefully*) the many, many blankets that are in a huge pile on the floor.

Other than that and two teeny spots I still need to tackle (why are teeny spots harder to conquer than big spots?), I need to move around some furniture and I think I’ll be done with the clearing part.

Then comes the part that scares me to death.

The putting back.

Honestly, I’ve loved my almost-completely-empty room for the past two days.

Empty of EVERYthing.  Hubby likes it too.  Strangely, we haven’t missed a thing in two days.

Proof that none of it is necessary for living.

None.

None of it.

Hmmmm.

*It’s now more-than-a-month later . . . and I still haven’t plowed through that pile of blankets.  I have no legit excuse.  Just wanted to be honest.

But I have been thoroughly enjoying my clutter-free and CLEAN master bedroom.

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