Yup, it's about that time. Time for Christmas and all the stuff that comes in the house for it. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a nice, quiet month before Thanksgiving craziness set in? Oh, wait! There is! It's called October, and it is upon us!
SO, in addition to being essentially gluten free again (since I liked it so much), this month I will be following the plan from Rachel of Intentionally Simple and doing a nice little cleaning/decluttering challenge.
I'll be finally getting to do it with her. I wanted so badly to do this last year, but at this time last year, I was 1 week postpartum with my first baby and there was, to put it mildly, a snowball's chance in the center of the sun that I was going to be cleaning anything. Oh, and did I mention that we were only half moved into our apartment? Yeah.
So, this year, I'm happy to dive in! If you're with us, here's the link to all the days:
http://intentionallysimple.com/31-days-to-living-intentionally-simple/
I have each thing jotted down on my calendar. I'll probably be mixing up the days a little because of David's and my staycation and the company we'll be having that week, so I'm going to cross off each item on my calendar as I do it, instead of doing the days in the order they come.
Also, though I had forgotten that this was coming up, last week I cleaned out the baby's closet (Day 18 and 19) and gave away the things I didn't need that were lying around there. I also got rid of the unneeded clothes in our closet, but didn't get to the storage above the clothes, so Day 6 will be a little more stuff focused and less clothes-focused.
I really feel like being neat and decluttered is part of how you make space for amazing to happen in your life. If you hold on to all the junk, then there's no room to make things that you really love a priority. Last month, that meant releasing some junk I'd been eating so that I could ingest more good stuff, and it payed off big time. Though I've already prioritized this process somewhat, it's nice to intentionally attack it in your home.
SO, look forward to my weekly posts, likely to happen on each of the 4 Sundays in the month, as well as an update on how we saved a boatload of money by not going to the beach this upcoming week (sniff sniff) but still (hopefully) will have an amazing week off.
