We don't celebrate Lent but when I saw this idea, I thought it was perfect for me. As previously posted, I'm really working on decluttering our home and I've made a few significant dents so far. I was checking my news feed on Facebook and someone had posted on Peter Walsh's page a link to someone's blog that talked about this goal. They were going to use Lent to rid their home of 40 bags of stuff in 40 days. At first, I thought "40 bags is A LOT of stuff! Do I even have that much?" The more I thought about it, I decided that I would make it be that much - we can definitely part with that much stuff and I was going to make it my goal. I started with my list of areas to declutter - I could only come up with 12. I figured I would add to the list as I went. Here is my list with scribbles and everything. I'll try to post my final list as well to see how I did. I have decided to do my garage sale on the Saturday after Easter. For now, my bags/boxes of garage sale things will be in the garage. That still counts. I will seal the boxes up and they will be out of the house.Trash and recycle are my other bag categories. I figured I will use any size from grocery bag to trash can size and they will all count. Same for the boxes - some of my boxes are quite large and some are not. It should all even out in the end. Regular, daily trash doesn't count for my 40 bags - it has to be a bag of trash/clutter that I've cleared from the designated space. I'm excited! Is that odd?
Ready, set, GO!
I love how the "Master" takes up 5 spots. That's how ours would be. :)
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