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52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 26 Update

July 1, 2015 By Victoria 6 Comments

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Last updated on August 28th, 2021 at 07:53 pm

This week marks the 1/2 way mark for my decluttering journey! I am very excited about the progress I have made in simplifying our home.

Each and every week another area of clutter is gone and with it our home gets that much easier to clean.

52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 26 Update

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This week I worked on my nightstand area. I am not showing you the inside of all the drawers this week because…well….there are unmentionables in these drawers and I am not going to expose my “drawers”.  🙂

The middle drawer as you can see was shoved with books an paper junk, and I really wanted to get the basket of magazines gone.

52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 26 Update

 

There was a lot of paper junk hiding in those drawers. Most of it was magazine articles I teared out thinking I would make the craft, or try out the recipe.  I resisted the urge to look through them and instead dumped them all saying “there is always pinterest”.

52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 26 Update

 

I went through all the magazines and tossed all those that I had either read already or knew I wasn’t going to get around to reading. I try out a lot of magazines  through free subscription deals and honestly only read my favorites.

I know with in one issue of a magazine if it is going to be a new favorite and really need to start tossing new issues of those that are not must read titles into the recycling bin the minute they hit my doorstep once I have skimmed through them for coupons.

52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 26 Update

I got  rid of enough unmentionables to devote the bottom drawer of my nightstand to books to read as well as my copies of The One Year Bible (I have it in 2 bible versions thanks to yard sale finds and like to rotate versions each year, although this year I took a year off from them to do another type of bible study)

52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 26 Update

I did manage my goal of getting rid of the basket in front of my nightstand. Now if I could just get around to repainting both my nightstand and my husbands. They were both yard sale finds from years ago. I have grand plans of painting them to match and getting them the same drawer knobs so that they look almost identical but…well…perhaps another year I will tackle all my refinishing furniture projects.

What area of your home did you declutter this week?

What 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

52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 26 UpdateView the plan and grab your free 52-week planning sheet here

Update: I finished this challenge – 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
  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 (you are here)
  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
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  50. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fifty
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  1. Christy says

    July 1, 2015 at 11:07 am

    We have been going through a version of this too. Admittedly I have fallen off the wagon and this motivates me to keep on trying!

    Reply
    • Victoria says

      July 2, 2015 at 11:05 am

      Yes! I hope you get back on the wagon. Honestly the only thing that keeps me on it some weeks is knowing I have 100’s of people each week who read this series post. I don’t want to let them down. Bonus is my home is starting to look really good thanks to that.

      Reply
  2. MomofTwoPreciousGirls says

    July 1, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    If you have elementary schools or daycares close by they often are in need of used magazines (maybe not Cosmo or Glamour!). They use them for projects in the classroom. My kids’ school is always asking for some.

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    • Victoria says

      July 2, 2015 at 11:03 am

      Thanks for the tip. I have a few teacher friend’s so I will ask them and then if they want them start collecting them for them.

      Reply
  3. amber says

    July 2, 2015 at 8:54 am

    Yesterday I cleaned out the girls craft box. I found lots of things to toss and a few things to put in the end of summer yard sale pile. I also cleaned under my oldest daughter’s bed. There was only one thing under there to put in the yard sale box. The rest just needed to be organized.

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    • Victoria says

      July 2, 2015 at 11:02 am

      Great job! I find kids craft boxes can be time consuming, they collect so many little odds and ends.

      Reply

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