Free Space.............Free Mind!

Life here in rural Wiltshire has got very busy

I have doing a massive decluttering session and got rid of well over  1,000 things out of our home.  The result has been truly amazing I can now get the downstairs of our house and our bedroom back straight in about 30mins ( 10 mins a room).  Kids rooms and my office still are too be decluttered but with a 13, 11, 10 and 3 1/2 year that will take some time basically due to the fact that everything I put to go out when the 3 1/2 year old sees it he immeditaly wants to keep it even if it is not his.


I have been a follower of Flylady for a while but really couldn't get my head around the de-cluttering bit but I think I have finally got my light bulb moment!  It feels very obvious to say that less clutter make sit far easier to keep things clean and tidy but I also think you need to be ready to get rid of things.  The physical clear out that has been taking place of anything from clothes to books is starting to enable me to clear out the emotional and mental clutter that I have aswell.

I have started to do councilling which is really helping me to see what is going on in my life and the steps I need to take to change the patterns that I seem to have programmed my brain into following almost with out thought!  

Clutter is greedy it takes up your time and  energy! You have to find homes for it, clean it and dust it Where as when you have space you can start to change and think!


Generally I think that de-cluttering is good for us  sometimes it is forced upon us but I have found when this happen we just acquire more stuff to replace the stuff we have got rid off!  What need to take place is a total mind shift into accepting  that you don't need stuff to make you happy and in fact in some cases stuff doesn't make you happen it just make you tired


If you interesting in the picture at the top I got it from this website which also has a very interesting article on De-cluttering and all the positive benefits that come from it