I have too much stuff.

Add into that that I’m a single mom with 3 kids, homeschooling 2 of them, working at a cafe, AND building my own business…I’m too freaking busy to keep up with it all. We need less stuff.

Now, I’m not going to go as far as to say I want to be a minimalist, because I’m also way too freaking sentimental and emotionally attached to things. I probably shouldn’t be, but it is what it is. Maybe with work I can learn not to be. Until then, however, my goal is going to be to pare down as much as possible.

Last night, I’d reached my limit with my bedroom. I always clean EVERYTHING else first. As usual, my own things come last (the timeless mom problem.) I have this nice room and I’m like, literally, tiptoeing through my own room to avoid stepping on things. Oh and also, all my clean clothes were still in a pile on my floor. Where the live. Perpetually. Like I’m 19 and living in a dorm or something. WTF.

Enough was freaking enough.

I got on Pinterest and perused as much Kon Mari as I could in a few minutes, and got to work. I folded and sorted the laundry, tossing the crappy pieces in a pile to get rid of. Then I opened my drawers and started tossing more, and folding what I had with her method that makes clothes stand up so you can actually see what’s in your drawers without making a big mess of it all. Then I went into my closet, once again saw too much stuff, and tossed what I could, clothing-wise. I still have a huge ways to go, but I filled 4 bags of trash/donate/sell. That’s a lot of crap that was in my way!!

Anyway, I can actually see the top of my dresser now too, which is cool.  It’s almost neat enough to arrange things on in some kind of aesthetically pleasing way. Neat.

Also, I’m thinking this needs to become a thing, so I’m putting together a free group so we can all figure out and support each other through this! Get info and sign up here!