My Messy House » blog http://mymessyhouse.org Mon, 24 May 2010 07:21:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Board Progress http://mymessyhouse.org/decluttering/board-progress/ http://mymessyhouse.org/decluttering/board-progress/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:52:31 +0000 Jenne http://mymessyhouse.org/decluttering/board-progress/ Hi again! If you got an email from the My Messy House forums, but cannot log in, take heart! I’m still working on upgrading the boards (target is this weekend.) Once the new boards are up and the moderators are comfortable, we will open registration. If you have not been active in the past year, your account might not exist any more, but you are welcome to re-register! I’ll post a heads up when the new boards are up.

Today, I gained some organizing stuff (folders and folding storage boxes) and got rid of two boxes of magazines (recycling) and a bag of clothes (Goodwill.) I also worked more on my corner of the living room. I’m trying to spend less than an hour a day on decluttering (so I can make it a daily habit) and about half an hour on declutter/maintenance. I’ve started washing down the bathroom after I’m done getting ready in the morning. With the counters all clear (except for the clock, handsoap, and electric toothbrush), it’s really easy to clean up. I also cleared the edge of the tub so all that’s on there is my current shampoo (I can tend to be a product junkie, but that’s another habit I’m decluttering), DH’s shampoo, and my bodywash. That makes it really easy to clean. Sadly, the bathroom is not done… I still have to do under the sink, but that’s two days’ worth of work and right now I’m just skimming the surface and grabbing the easy stuff.

A really inspiring site I have found is Zen Habits. I spent a while this weekend reading a lot of the archives and I’ve added it to my daily reads for inspiration.

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Today, I did not buy anything.

I decluttered the bathroom counter a bit more and cleaned out the medicine cabinet so DH’s supplies could fit in there. I have three tubs of moisturizer I need to use up! It’s crazy!

I also decluttered the magazines in the bathroom. Set aside most of them for recycling.

Tomorrow, I intend to bag up the leather shoes and purses that I can get to easily in my bedroom and take them to Goodwill (or at least get them into the Jeep!) along with the two bags of donation clothes I have waiting in the bedroom.

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