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November 24, 2023

Decluttering Kitchen Cabinets Even When You Don’t Feel Like it: Day 11 Decluttering Challenge

I’m calling day eleven the “even when you don’t feel like decluttering” day, because my heart was definitely not in it today. Going through the kitchen cabinets is not fun at all to me. Do you have areas that you just dread more than other areas? Kitchen cabinets are that place for me. I always find so much food that no one wants. It seems wrong to trash food though, you know? Yet, you cannot donate opened food. I usually end up texting friends to see if anyone wants it. I found a friend to take my granola bars, and […]

November 23, 2023

Day 10 of the 30 Day Decluttering Challenge: Bookshelves

For day ten, we are working on decluttering bookshelves for ten minutes. I found this to be a fairly easy little job. I did create a mess with all the books I pulled out, though. You will see that in the video. To avoid making a giant pile of books in the floor like I did, you might want to have a second box or bag to put books you need your family members to go through. My youngest son still wanted to keep many of the books I hoped we could get rid of. This is how I solved […]

November 21, 2023

Decluttering the Playroom: Day 9 of the Decluttering Challenge

For day nine, we are decluttering the playroom, or whatever room where your family plays. My kids are old enough that this job wasn’t too hard this time. A few years ago, this was a much more daunting task. The difficulty level of this task completely depends on where you and your family are at in life. With a few little children in the house, this could be a booger. I am not addressing reorganizing toys and cleaning out old toys much in this post. However, I did talk about the best way I know how to organize and clean […]

November 16, 2023

Day 5 of the Decluttering Challenge: Kitchen Counter Tops

For day five, we are decluttering our kitchen counter tops. If you are anything like me, that is a daily battle. Unfortunately, I am not winning that battle. Today we can set aside ten to fifteen minutes to focus just on that. If you already have thoroughly cleaned off counter tops, this is a great time to work on your table or your kitchen drawers, wherever your kitchen clutter is. At our house, the kitchen counters and the coffee table are, as Flylady calls them, our “hotspots.” I try to constantly clean them off, but it feels like the impossible […]

November 15, 2023

Decluttering Challenge Day 4: A Kid’s Closet

Welcome to day four of the 30 Day Decluttering Challenge! Today we are decluttering a kid’s closet. Y’all, for day four of the decluttering challenge, I had a bad case of the blahs and that is what I look like in this video. Man, I looked rough. Sorry, guys. Maybe tomorrow my makeup lady will come back. (Of course, I am my make-up lady.) The good news is my son and I felt mega accomplished after thinning so many little shirts out of his closet. We went through every single piece of clothing hanging in his closet. We sent a […]