Day 8 with Helpful Tips by Grace - Clutter Free Home - Children/Spare bedrooms

We made it to Day 3 of our clutter free adventure! How did yesterday go with your Master bedroom clutter work out? Now that we can see our floor again in our Master bedroom, let's go tackle the children's rooms while they are at school, or our spare room!

Toys in this house seem to be lurking in ever shadow! Every time I think we have thinned things out, Hannah, our middle daughter, finds a way to show us we were wrong! I love the idea of purging her room while she is not home to tell me "not that toy, I love it" to every single doll that has had its hair cut, clothes and body painted with nail polish and some times even a complete body re-configuration! Yes, my 6-year-old is gifted and creative....so they tell me....

While going through the toys and other items in these bedrooms remember to leave, to a point, their little tiny pleading voice behind. The reality is, you know what they are playing with and what has not been looked at for months, sometimes even years. You will know which stuff animals and dolls are a must to keep because you know your children! You got this!!!!

Let's recap the questions we are going to use for every room during this journey......

Here is what you should ask yourself to help be as efficient as you can be while going through all of these items;

1)  Have they used this in the past 3 months?
2)  Will they use this in the next 3 months?
3)  Do they have multiple of the same item and therefor I can either combine them or limit it down to one or two?
4)  Is any part of this item broken or defected?
5)  Is this something they or I would actually end up buying (or buy again)?
6)  Am I only keeping this because I bought it and do not want to waste my money?
7)  Does this have sentimental value to them that they can not live without?

Question number 7 may be a bit more difficult when purging someone else's things, no matter how young or old they are. Sentimental value on an item is not always because someone special gave it to you. It could have also been the teddy you clung onto when you were told your papa passes away, or the doll that was bought for you when you had your first big fall and needed stitches. So, in today's purge, if you can not absolutely say they 100 percent do not NEED to keep something, put it aside until they get home and ask them. I find the best way to ask is " honey, I am cleaning up our home because it has become overwhelming. While I was cleaning I found _____. Is it ok if we donate ______ to another girl or boy to play with?

Don't forget to grab a few boxes or bags (or continue using the ones from yesterday) for these categories;

*  Donate
*  Garage sale or kijij
*  Can go to another room to be put away PROPERLY
*  Toss it

And of course, anything that would not fit in these categories would be the items that you put away properly in your Bedroom!

Have fun today continuing on our clutter free home journey! See you all tomorrow!!!