January Challenge (2 of 5)

[fred_mouse]

How did you go with decluttering your rest space? Did you have thoughts about what you might do, did you deal with one tiny thing, or did you have a startlingly productive week?

For the second week, we are moving from rest space to hobby space. Can you find something to declutter? What this might look like:

• acknowledging that you aren't going to come back to a craft project and rehoming the materials
• clearing WIPs so that there is space to work on Just One -- especially if one of those is something that will leave the house when it is done! Gift yourself space while finishing that gift!
• clearing a path to the sewing machine (this one is me. I really need to do that, because if I do that I can start work on repairing the clothing I want to keep and repurposing the ones I don't)
• working through a shelf of books / DVDs / games and deciding which ones spark joy, and which ones can go.
• going through the tool box and working out just how many pairs of scissors or screwdrivers or gumblesprockets* you really need

Alternatively: keep going with the resting space! Get something out of the house!

* no, i don't know what a gumblesprocket is either. It was one of the list of silly words for tools I learned in a poem as a kid

Comments

[fred_mouse]

I didn't declutter anything in my rest space, but I did move a piece of furniture out of the middle of the room and into what I hope will be its space, and now I can get to the pile of things that were stuck around it to start working out what to keep and what to rehome. I am also starting to think about which books I might give up on reading.

[mekare]

>>which books I might give up on reading.

Oh yeah, that is a good one...

[mekare]

I decluttered a LOT of magazines that were lying around in various piles and filling shelves. Not quite the rest space mission, but certainly adjacent to it.

I really like the second focus (and immediately three things you suggested are relevant to me).

[tanaqui]

I made some progress on my rest space, dealing with quite a few bits and pieces that had accumulated and either needed to go to trash or their proper home (I was very much reminding myself of Dana K White's No-Mess Decluttering process as I was working.)

Still more to do -- but as a lot of what I can see from my rest space is also hobby stuff, that nicely dovetails with this week's challenge. :-)

Really loving your suggestions so far. Thanks for making these posts!

[nanila]

This inspired me get rid of some bottles of stuff that had a desultory amount in the bottom which was clearly never going to get used!

[sisterofbloomerjunior]

I did recycle a waterstained book and am boxing up at least one Christmas book I don't read all that often.