10 Ideas To Declutter And Live in The Home Of Your Dreams

Here is my list for today on which I am thinking of ten ways to declutter and live in the home I want:

1.- Throw Things Out: 

I want to go through my house and look at all the things that "don't bring me joy", as Marie Kondo, author of the book "The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing", says. 

I want joy!  

I want to declutter

I never put it together that perhaps joy = declutter

home room = mind room...


She is onto something. 

Reading her book opened me up to new ways of looking at things around me and I highly recommend it.  All ten ideas are inspired by her.

2.- Visualize What It Would Look Like:  

There is a closet at the entrance of my house that has so many things is ridiculous.

I think it has old rackets we never use, for a game we never played, a kite, five umbrellas, old shoes from people I don't even know, a bag pack I never used, an old computer, blankets, and on and on.  

I did this visualization and I saw it as a beautiful closet, with decorations on the wall, nice lighting, and just two blankets on top, two umbrellas in a nice umbrella holder and a few coats.  Then empty hangers.  It looks beautiful, spacious, huge, in my imagination.

3.- Donate Things to Charity:

The Vietnam Vets are great in the north east, they pick up from your doorsteps any appliances or clothes, or things, in working order, which you don't use anymore.  I think it would be good to give things in good condition to them.

4.- Clean up: 

A while ago I used an organic liquid to fend off spiders.  Unfortunately the organic side had a bad side effect, which is that it got the walls looking darker, with lines of liquid glued to the wall.  I'd like to clean that.

5.- Organic cleaners:  

I've been getting into vinegar later.  I see a lot of people use it to clean and I wonder if it really does clean... I am so used to chemicals it might be time to consider this.  

6.- Books out:  

I've been thinking that some books I need to keep for research and that is true, but some others I don't.  I guess I could do a giveaway of my books to the audience of the Yoga Podcast, after all I have read so many books in prep that they may serve others as well... They may have markings though, in fact there is one book I read so many times I don't think anyone else would even want it (it was this book)

7- Replacing Lights And Anything That No Longer Works:  

There are many lights around the house that don't work, it is time to get them all working so any switch I turn on actually turns on.  I think this is philosophically important as well as practical.

8.- Using/Freeing Loose Change:  

There are several jars in my house with loose change, hair bands, pencils and other stuff. I want to get rid of the stuff, which clearly has been there for years and I won't touch it, and use the change, start getting those quarters out into circulation again, respect the value of money.

9.- Once The House Is Empty, live it once: 

Yes I am aiming for empty.  For space. Being in a few Airbnbs during the winter gave me that great feeling of extra space.  So I want to be in this house and feel it in all its emptiness.

I want to live one day in no-thing.  See what that even means. 

10.- Start with the living room:  

I think if I had a smaller coffee table in the living room it would help with not crowding it with stuff as it usually happens.  I think I will start there...

This is the book that inspired the list, highly recommended...

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