YOUR BEDROOM IS NOT A GRAVEYARD FOR STUFF THAT HAS NO HOME!
Alas, in the midst of household de-cluttering, this is exactly what mine had become. So I’m in the process of reclaiming my “bridal chamber” with a few tips from the FlyLady. This insightful post hit particularly hard. I’ve spent so much time de-cluttering the common areas that I’ve neglected the most important area.
I love the questions that the FlyLady poses:
1. Do you sleep here?
2. Do you want the room to be restful and inviting?
3. Do you want to get up in the night and not bump into things?
4. Do you have trouble closing your drawers?
5. Can you find the clothes you are looking for?
6. Do things fall off the closet shelf and hit you?
7. Are you afraid to look under the bed?
8. Are clothes piled to the ceiling on the chair in the corner?
9. Is your cedar chest filled with stuff you will never wear again?
10. Can you walk between the bed and the wall or are there several piles of newspapers, books, trash and clothes?
11. Do you have to crawl into bed from the foot of the bed because there is no room to walk?
12. Is stuff piled so high on the dressers and nightstands you have forgotten what they look like?
13. Are the cobwebs becoming moth collectors?
14. Are the dust bunnies reproducing in the corners and under the bed?
15. Can you see out your bedroom windows?
16. Can you close your closet door?
17. Have the spiders decided to winter over behind your bed?
18. If you open the drapes does the room fog up from the dust in them?
19. Do you know what color your carpet really is?
Now, I can truly say that it’s not as bad as all that, but the laundry piled up in a corner…well, yeah. That would be correct. The master bedroom has become the laundry folding station. And the cluttered dresser top? Umhmmm. No more!
Four bags and two boxes of stuff…Gone! Goodbye graveyard, hello haven!
I am a traditional Catholic homeschooling mother of 9 children, married for 27 years to the most patient and sainted man. As converts to Catholicism in 1991, our family has only recently discovered the beauty and full expression of our beliefs in the timeless liturgy of antiquity, the Extraordinary Form also commonly referred to as the Traditional Latin Mass. An avid knitter, I also enjoy gardening, reading and immersing myself in the everyday graces of my vocation.
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We started with the basement yesterday and it’not finished. This is going to take a looooooong time. But I am grateful for your inspiration.
Hey:
Don’t throw that stuff out!
You’ll be sorry…
LOL, I beg to differ - my bedroom is EXACTLY a graveyard for stuff that has no home.
But I’m working on it.
Don’t throw it out, donate it!
I just saw a poor little girl from my parish hugging one of the multitude of stuffed animals I had just donated from our daughter’s room to the parish thrift shop. It made me so happy to see her hugging that bear that only collected dust in our home.
I absolutely agree, Leticia! We never throw anything away…our local thrift stores will take even clothing that is seemingly destroyed. They sell it to large companies for industrial rags. It’s amazing how many things we think are worthless, yet still have uses!