Okay, it isn’t all that bad. It’s an easy read and the author is surprisingly candid with a great self-effacing humor. One of the first things she tackles is clutter. I hate clutter myself, although you wouldn’t know it if you dropped by my house for an unexpected visit.
She sites all sorts of research backing up her data. I love research! She quotes all kinds of people. I love quotes too!! Reducing clutter is under the overall umbrella of increasing energy. She has the typical “go to sleep earlier” and “exercise better”, but the clutter was the one I found most interesting. According to Rubin, one study that she found said that reducing clutter can cut down the average amount of housework by 40 percent. What? Sign me up for that!
I cleaned out my dresser drawers and closet. It took a couple of hours, but I ended up with a HUGE black trash bag full of clothes for Goodwill and an almost equally huge pile of clothes for a garage sale that I keep saying I’m going to have.
A few weeks ago, the boys and I went through their playroom and culled toys that were broken or deemed “too babyish”. We came up with a couple of trash bags and a couple of moving boxes worth of stuff. The moving boxes have been sitting up in the loft waiting for us to have a free Saturday (yeah, right!).
So, with Thanksgiving company looming around the corner, we are having a garage sale this weekend! Woo-hoo!
It probably won’t have everything in the sale that needs to go in it, but hey, it’s a start.
And, for the record, it did make me happier!
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