Yesterday was Saturday. Which in my life means I was somehow incapacitated, this time slept on my neck wrong.

With mostly being done w/ work (nothing school related to do) and finished up my art for Ss (need a break), I re-read “How to Manage Your House Without Losing Your Mind”

It just cracks me up. Thinks hubs needs to read it. While he is also messy, I’m not sure he has the bizarre inner dialogue and delusions I share with the author (yay someone thinks like me)! It’s very freeing and has led to some lasting changes since Dec when I 1st read it

I hope as school winds down I’ll start to have some more productive decluttering using her strategies bc I’ve gotten some of the daily basics more under control.

Her approach:
1) Easy stuff first (trash, things that already have home, no things requiring emotional decisions)

2) If it has a home, TAKE IT THERE NOW (I’ve started implementing already). It’s so hard as I was to be “efficient” and just do one trip to a different spot, but this mostly results in piles to be taken, that stay clutter and if they get taken just stay in a pile in new location

3) Do NOT pull everything out in an area and start with sorting and putting back. This doesn’t work for us. We get interrupted/forget about it/get tired and now we have MORE of a mess and it’s spread out instead of relatively confined

4) Start with most visible spots. We want to start with hidden places but then we don’t get momentum because we never see them. Start with where you see every day.

The End. She has a lot more great stuff, but hoping these changes to my approach help.