Last week, Paul and I ended up finding another house that we liked and were thinking of taking a look at it and if we liked it, putting ours up and making a bid on theirs. Since it was all coming a reality to me I started taking a look around our house and that’s when I saw our house in a different light and realized we do have a lot of stuff. Now I knew we had a quite a few toys as it seems like I’m the one who is constantly picking them up, but I never realized how much other stuff we had.
Needless to say I started my spring cleaning and ended up decluttering quite a bit. The sad thing is as I look around I still see where I need to get rid of more things. I really wish I would of taken before and after pictures in some areas like my closet. Here I cry about how I don’t have any clothes to wear, but my closet was always full. So I ended up going through it piece by piece. If I haven’t worn it in so long and I don’t see wearing it again it would go in one of two piles. Garage sale or trash (as some of them had holes or stains on them.. you know those “good” working around the house clothes). I also did set aside a few clothes that are to small for me that I pray I can get back into some day. I really didn’t want to get rid of them as I remember loosing the weight before and then finding I had NOTHING to wear at least I would have something to wear to the store to buy more clothes if needed. ~wink~
I just love looking at my house now as it always seems to be picked up now. Now I know why some houses look cleaner than others. The less stuff you have… the cleaner it will look!
It will be interesting when either my parents or Paul’s parents come over for the first time.. will they notice all the cleaning/decluttering we’ve been doing? I suppose it all depends if the kids are busy playing Lincoln Logs or not. If they are… I can promise they won’t notice as the logs will be scattered all over the floor. Oh well.. what can you do?!? We have to have fun at time too!