52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 20 Update

This week I tackled the coats as I continued work on the back entrance area of our home.

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The coat hooks don’t  look all that bad, but then this isn’t our entire coat collection. Before I expose you to the rest, I want you to know there are 5 people in our home, all wear adult sized clothing and we live in Indiana, a state where you can start your day out in a parka, and end it in a tank top;seriously not kidding, I have done it.

In case you are wondering about the hairbrush hanging from the string in the picture above, the story behind that begins about a year ago. I got really tired of having to hunt down a brush every day. My children seem unable to place them back in the drawer they are suppose to live in. In my frustration I remembered Beth Moore writing about how she tied her hairbrush to a drawer for similar reasons, so I decided to give it a try and it works! I swear that tied up hairbrush saves me 1 hour a week. (there is a mirror opposite it)

Remember me talking about the coat bin we keep near our front door? Well this is it. I decided if I was going to tackle the coats at the back door I might as well tackle the coat bin too. That way all the dead of winter coats will be put away until next winter.

To make myself take a good look at the over all coat problem in our home I stacked the ones on the hook on top of the ones in the bin.  Yeah, that is frightening. We have coats for deep of winter, coats for those summer Indiana down pours, coats for cool fall evenings, coats for running, coats for working around the house, coats for church; pretty much coats for all occasions.

In the end just one coat went in the giveaway pile and one coat went into the garbage, the rest either got hung up or put in these 2 bins. In these bins are the coats for the deep of winter, and since in is now mid May I think it might be safe to assume we won’t be needing them for several months.

These are all the coats I left out for the summer and into the fall. The big bin is actually empty. I did hang up a few coats I use for running and biking, in a very small hanging area we have at the top of our basement stairs.

The area still looks kind of messy but there isn’t much you can do with coat hooks to make them look neater when in use.

What area of your home did you declutter this week?

Don’t forget to join the Snail Pace Clutter Removers  Facebook group, where you can share your progress, and receive encouragement.

A few great posts to help you with your clutter roadblocks…

• How To Start Decluttering When You Feel Overwhelmed By It
• How To Declutter When You Just Don’t Feel Like It
• 4 Essential Items For Efficient Decluttering

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Update: I finished this challenge so below are the links to all my weekly updates showing my progress.

1. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week One
2. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Two
3. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Three
4. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Four
5. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Five
6. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Six
7. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Seven
8. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Eight
9. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Nine
10. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Ten
11. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Eleven
12. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twelve
13. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirteen
14. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fourteen
15. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fifteen
16. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Sixteen
17. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Seventeen
18. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Eighteen
19. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Nineteen
    
20. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty (you are here)
21. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-One
22. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Two
23. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Three
24. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Four
25. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Five
26. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Six
27. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Seven
28. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Eight
29. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Nine
30. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty
31. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-One
32. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Two
33. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Three
34. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Four
35. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Five
36. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Six
37. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Seven
38. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Eight
39. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Nine
40. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty
41. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-One
42. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Two
43. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Three
44. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Four
45. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Five
46. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Six
47. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Seven
48. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Eight
49. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Nine
50. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fifty
51. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fifty-One
52. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fifty-Two

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