As many of you know, I have been on a mission to really, truly, significantly declutter my house. And I started by issuing myself a personal challenge. To get rid of at least 500 pounds of clutter over the next year.
If you want to see what has happened so far, you can find the string of threads here.
If you want to see what has happened so far, you can find the string of threads here.
Good news or bad, I think I'll hit that goal sooner than later as a month into it, I am already nearing 300 pounds. But I plan to keep going.
I have heard from many of you that you are laughing along the way as I discover (and purge) the ridiculous stuff that has cluttered up our lives. And I have heard from even more of you that you are inspired. Or cleaning out because of what you have seen here. For that, I'd like to thank you.
So I have decided we should make it official. Let's do this together. So today I am kicking off the first "Great Declutter Challenge" blog hop. All you need to do to participate is to pick one area. Just one little area. And pledge to attack it. That, I think, has been the key to my success so far -- keeping it small and making myself accountable. I am viewing this as a ton of teeny projects leading towards one big huge one. So just pick one spot. Take a before picture. And blog about it. Then you own it. It's yours to deal with.
All you have to do to participate is grab the image above and put it in your post and be sure to link back to my blog. Then come back here and enter your link. Encourage your readers to do the same.
I'll put up a new Bloghop each week so we can share our progress.
A few tips.
1. Be ruthless. Step outside yourself for a bit and you'll be amazed what you are able to get rid of.
2. Make piles. Throw away, recycle, donate or put away. See what works for you. See how little you can throw and how much you can give away or recycle.
3. Commit to keep new clutter out. I have stopped impulse shopping over the past month, too.
4. Weigh it. How do I do it? I literally get on the scale by myself and then I get on holding the bags and piles of stuff I have purged. It's shocking.
All right here he go.
