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Decluttering 30+ Categories of Household Items Over Time
Decluttering doesn’t have to be an all week long job. I set a plan to go through a list of areas in my home over several weeks this spring and it worked. A car load of stuff is out of the house! Sometimes it is hard getting rid of familiar things, but it helped me to vision someone else happily using the items, and I was happy to imagine the extra space we would have. We have gone through our house twice. George initiated the first declutter movement in 2024 and I initiated the second one in 2025 after my retirement. But this time it felt different. I challenged myself…
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Basement Decluttering and Weekly Update
Good morning everyone. You can watch the vlog this week HERE. In the video, we work on the basement some downstairs, we fix the most awesome pork roast ever, and I found Mom a cleaning lady that actually showed up and communicates! I have been trying all week to blog but it has been one of the busiest week’s we’ve had since retirement. On Monday, we went to Opry Mills Mall and I found my shoes for the black tie event. Afterwards, we stopped at Tenfold Brewing to do our fall planning. I’ve found it is not as necessary to do as much planning since we are not working and…
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Final DeCluttering: Minimalists Won’t Like It
Here’s the final episode of going through our kitchen cabinets to declutter. You can watch it HERE. George had already gone through the cabinets a year ago and consulted me on a few things but we wanted to go through them again now that I’m retired and get rid of a few more things, which we did. We have a lot of cabinet space, so if it gave us joy and we anticipated that we could still use it, we kept it. We have additional cabinets down stairs (almost an entire kitchen but without the sink and stove, but we do have a downstairs fridge). We had fun with the…
