Day 5 with Helpful Tips from Grace - January is clutter month!

For the month of January, I thought maybe we would take a journey together and become clutter free! We live in a relatively modest size townhouse and there are 5 of us in this home. To say the least, after Christmas and our December birthday children, our house becomes cluttered quickly. 

Did you know that more than half of Canadians are dealing with Anxiety and stress caused by over cluttered living spaces? When your home is cluttered and you feel shut in, you tend to either find that one spot on the couch "your safe zone" or end up not wanting to be in your home unless its bed time! We pay a ton for our homes, lets make it a place where we want to be!

Over the next week or so, we will purge together. One room per day will allow those of us with a lot of stuff in our houses to not get overwhelmed and give up! Remember we are doing this together SO if you need to chat or to have a quick "get me motivated" moment, shoot me a comment and Ill respond :)

OK, so for today! Let’s get our minds ready for this process. Some of us go through our homes regularly but there are others of us that have had the clutter building up for years! This is why we need to prepare ourselves. It can be very difficult to get rid of your things, even if you have not seen them or used them in a long time. For me, this is a problem when it comes to my baking tools.  They are expensive and I always tell myself ....one day....one day I will have time to do it again...... But let’s be totally honest, when that day comes, the way we bake will be completely different!

So, the first step to preparing yourself is to write down a list of anything you have been looking for in the last while that has specific meaning to you! Do not go crazy with this. I do not mean write down every single item you received from a relative that you simply must keep because it was given to you by them! My eldest daughter does this. Over Christmas break we redid her room. While doing so I found 4 boxes......just paper boxes.... empty.... they were used to hold a gift she was given over the last few years...... and do you know what she said when I put them in the recycling...... nana gave those to me.  You can make yourself ill from this type of thought process. You need to set boundaries for what is actually important and what is not. These "things" are not what keeps your family and friends’ intentions a priority to you, the memories do.

Next is create your room check list. On here we are going to start with bathrooms because it should be the easiest room to get our motivated juices flowing. Here is how our day-by-day clutter free work out will look like;

Day One: Bathrooms
Day Two and Three:  Bedrooms ( I have 4 so we will split this up into two days)

Day Four: Living room/Family room
Day Five: Kitchen
Day Six: Office
Day Seven: Our Cars!

Each post I will have a few simple questions you are to stop and think about when you get hung up on the "should I keep these" moments. 

I am so excited to start this adventure with you tomorrow! Let’s get motivated!!!