52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 40 Update
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.

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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.

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.

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…
- 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
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.
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week One
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Two
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Three
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Four
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Five
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Six
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Seven
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Eight
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Nine
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Ten
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Eleven
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twelve
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirteen
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fourteen
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fifteen
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Sixteen
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Seventeen
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Eighteen
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Nineteen
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-One
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Two
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Three
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Four
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Five
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Six
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Seven
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Eight
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Twenty-Nine
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-One
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Two
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Three
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Four
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Five
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Six
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Seven
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Eight
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Thirty-Nine
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty (you are here)
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-One
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Two
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Three
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Four
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Five
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Six
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Seven
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Eight
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Forty-Nine
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fifty
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fifty-One
- 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fifty-Two