unclutter | Jan. 26th, 2012

My house has five rooms downstairs: three that are are lived in (kitchen, dining room, living room) and two that are.... kind of always edging on complete disaster: the back sunroom and laundry room. They are a catchall for tools and games and hobby equipment and laundry and things and things and things.

I have a friend who has been coming over and helping me clean and declutter. She came a few times before Christmas, and again today - today we tackled the back rooms. There are some amazing ways in which this is helpful: she has no emotional attachment to any of the things, so she's very encouraging on the "get rid of it" task. And she's better at cleaning and decluttering than I am, and more focused. If she comes over we work for hours, way past when I would give up or get distracted.

So. There are three large garbage bags of stuff thrown out; and an equivalent amount to go down to the thrift shop. Major areas of decluttering were: blankets/linens; videos/vhs tapes, craft/hobby supplies, and board games.

Homeless at the moment are a small collection of musical instruments; but I'm hoping to move them upstairs into one of the disordered closets.

And I'm exhausted. (and trying to regroup to go curling tonight!)