Just last week, my husband and I did some serious clutter busting in preparation for a church party we hosted. After the extremely DIFFICULT and TIME CONSUMING job of putting everything back in its place, I have been determined not to let the place get cluttered again...at least for a while? (I am not so naive as to think I am cured, but I'm on the right track.)
Some time ago on my favorite cleaning blog, I read a piece of advice that got me thinking. It went something like this...One habit of families who keep a clean house is that they look around before they leave a room to find something that needs to be returned to the room to which they're going. I'm sure the original post was more articulate than that, but you get the idea.
This week I have consciously been doing this every time I leave a room, and let me tell you, it really works! If I am headed to the kitchen and I see a glass on the end table, I take it to the dishwasher. It seems simple, but it is all too easy for me to ignore the clutter instead of doing something about it. I am determined to keep this up and create a new healthy habit for myself and my home.
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looking around the room to see what I can take with me is something that I do and it definitely helps...I started reading a blog called 'a slob comes clean' and it is about a women who is trying to be intentional about not being messy and she is very real,she talks about having selective vision when it comes to clutter and messes...here is the link to her blog http://www.aslobcomesclean.com/ I've taken the time to go back and read her posts from the beginning and was drawn in by her realness...
I'm not too bad about leaving dishes in other rooms but the mail tends to explode all over the desk, to the point where it is never usable, and then onto the living room table. I even got a mail organizer thing and that hasn't seemed to help me much, although the clutter is now somewhat sorted! I need to just deal with it and not let it build up...
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