Happy New Year, everyone! I just wanted to announce that I’m joining the Declutter Challenge from The Single Saver. You can read more about it and sign up on Single Saver’s page. The idea is simple:
1) Declutter and remove 366 (or more) items from your home/apartment.
2) Items may be donated, sold, or given away to count towards the 366 item total.
3) Trash doesn’t count towards the 366 item total (but it will still help declutter!)
4.) Items don’t count towards the 366 total until they actually leave the house.
What I’ll Get rid of
I’m going to …
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Posted on January 2, 2012 -
It’s been a little while since I’ve written about clutter, but, after things got out of control in my apartment last week, the clutter and related blog posts are back. Now that everything’s in its place, I’ve taken some time to pen what’s caused my clutter and how I’ve allowed it to build up to begin with. Here are the main sources of clutter, along with things I’ve actually said to myself to keep this clutter around:
Source #1: Saving for the future and storing something that I don’t need now, but (I think) I might eventually need.…
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Earlier this year I became fixated on a mission to get rid of most of what I own. This all happened when I discovered a concept that was new to me: minimalism. For those who are unfamiliar, minimalism basically means that you strive to own fewer things, have less of an impact on the world, and lead a simpler and more fulfilling life because of it. One of the more popular minimalist ideas out there is only owning 100 things. Feeling as though I had owned a lot all my life (I amassed large collections of CDs, books, DVDs, …
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Posted on January 12, 2011 -
