52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 40 Update

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Week 40! That means there are just 12 weeks left until the end of this 52-week challenge for the readers that have joined me since January 1 and me. If you joined later don’t worry I will still keep the Facebook group active after the challenge finishes so that people can keep going.

52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 40 Update

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This is the pile in the master bedroom that I have been dreading to show you. It isn’t that bad, but what I don’t like about it is it has sat by my husband’s side of the bed now for a year and a half.

In that time it has shrunk by a few boxes but never disappeared. It started when we converted our homeschooling area into a 4th bedroom. We had friends coming over in the middle of renovating, and I had to get the stuff that was in the homeschooling room out of the dinning room. So I stacked it all up beside the bed, and there it has sat for a year and a half.

I reduced it in size once about a year ago and had grand plans of finishing the job – then I got busy and sort of forgot about it.

Thankfully my husband never complains.

52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 40 Update

I decided the best snail pacing way to get through this clutter mountain is one box at a time.

I grabbed one box earlier this week and brought it down to the family room. I then grabbed an empty box from the basement and a garbage bag.

52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 40 Update

Just under 1/3 of the contents of the box went straight to trash. I put away another 1/2 dozen items or so in their proper places around our home. The rest of the items I tossed in the keep “but not sure where” box. Quite a few of the items in this box are home improvement items that I will let my husband put away in the shed by himself –he has his system for things out there, so it is best if I just let him do it.

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

View 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
  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 (you are here)
  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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