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52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week 40 Update

October 7, 2015 By Victoria 2 Comments

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Last updated on August 15th, 2017 at 04:02 pm

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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

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.

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

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
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  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
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  50. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fifty
  51. 52 Weeks To A Simplified Home: Week Fifty-One
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  1. amber says

    October 7, 2015 at 11:59 am

    This week I am switching the girls clothes from spring/summer to fall/winter. We get ALOT of hand-me-downs. Yesterday we filled two boxes and a bag with larger size clothes that both of my daughters don’t like. There is no sense storing clothes that they will later fit into but don’t like.

    At first I thought I would take the clothes to a thrift store. Then I decided I would just post them for free on craigslist. Someone came last night and picked them up.

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    • Victoria says

      October 8, 2015 at 1:19 pm

      I am always surprised by how much time I spend as a mom on clothing needs. Switching seasons is time consuming when you are a mom.

      Reply

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