52 week
challenge – week 21
Home audit
Here it is
Sunday morning and I’ve only just read the challenge for the week. I checked it out on Monday and the put it
aside. Procrastination – maybe but well
it has been a tough week, work is a bit crazy at the moment and most days I’ve
been working 12 hours so it is what it is.
Thanks to
Deb (http://www.homelifesimplified.com.au/declutter-your-stuff/)
I’ve not been beating myself up, I’ve taken it in my stride and I accept
that during the tough weeks that not everything gets done when it should. I’ve
learnt to simplify my life and understand that I am enough and that if I
prioritise, set goals, make my lists I will get through everything. If I stop thinking about it and just get on
with it everything will be done.
So here it
is Sunday morning, muffins baked, apricot bites setting in the fridge, soccer
emails sent and its time to look at the home audit.
I like the
idea of changing what I can. After
living in our home for 15 years of course there are things that I would like to
change, but more importantly there is clutter.
We were in the Air Force and we moved every six years – this was great
because we would have a big clean up every time we moved – we decluttered
instead of packing. It was a good way to
keep the home in order but now that we have left the Air Force and set roots
into the Canberra Community I’ve found that my house is bursting at the seams. We have too much stuff!
I’ve been
far too sentimental and kept too much and this is one thing I am looking at
seriously – I want to keep things from our past, I want to have my memories
surrounding me. As I write this a thought has just occurred to me. Keeping
memories is very important to me but does it have to clutter the house. Instead
of the way I do things I could change it. I could put a bit of order into the memories,
get a few big containers and file them away (in an easy way to recover them
when I want). Maybe instead of keeping items I could write about them and add
photos – sort of scrapbooking with more words. Yes this does sound simple and
for heavens sake why didn’t I think of this before. I love writing and well scrapbooking is ok
too. MMM I will have to put my thinking
cap on and see what I can come up with.
Thanks Deb
for setting another Challenge that has hit the mark.
