Showing posts with label 40bagsin40days. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 40bagsin40days. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2014

A Move

Here's an update on how I'm doing with "decrapifying":




This has been a crazy week! We found out on Wednesday that we are moving. MOVING! I'm so excited, that I've actually been getting up early (and I'm not a morning person) to pack & declutter each morning. But, I also work outside the home, teach a Bible study on Wednesday nights & Thursday was our 15th wedding anniversary, so to say this week has been a whirlwind is to put it lightly.

But the good news for you is that I'll have TONS more stuff to post about on here now that I get to completely start from scratch at organizing a new place! And maybe, if I have time, I can share some moving tips that have or haven't worked for us. I've found a lot of ideas on Pinterest that I'm excited to try!

How have your organizing efforts been going?

Monday, March 10, 2014

With Purpose

So just a few posts into my blog and I'm already annoyed with the whole "She Organizes:" bit in every title. If I am, then I'm sure you are, too...LOL Okay, so I'm just going to stop now. I assume you know that "she organizes"...sort of like when you start a sentence with a verb, right? "Go to the store, please." The "You" at the beginning is assumed. So, let's just assume my post title begins with She Organizes and move on.

*deep breath*

I feel better already--look at that, I decluttered my post titles. Proof you can declutter anything! With that out of the way, let's move on to my next project.

My sister Kelly (who is way better at blogging than I am) told me about this on Facebook.

I'm super busy but I'm always looking for ways to declutter and organize (obviously), so the reason I'm excited about this challenge is simply *because* it's only one bag a day! Yes, I can carve out some hours to do a whole room, but I probably won't. I am a procrastinator by nature...as I've mentioned before. But doing one bag a day is a reachable goal. I started late (signed up Saturday, 3/8), but I did 2 bags of trash that had been put out on my deck (old paper bags, newspapers, etc.). I took Sunday off. I'm not going to get crazy and try to do as much as possible and then burn out in the first week (a pattern I'm all too familiar with)...I'm focusing on one bag at a time

Half the fun of this challenge is the social media aspect, but in all my excitement, I forgot to take pictures of my first two bags. So today I found some more papers (junk mail, receipts, school papers, used dryer sheets, etc.) and filled another bag! Here's Bag 3:


You should join me in this challenge! Click on the first picture above or go to this website to sign up. She also has tons of printables and exciting things to help motivate you.

Let me know in the comments if you're going to do it, too!