![]() ![]() How I thought minimalism was going to turn me into Marie Kondo overnight is beyond me, but I did. I tend to be more of a messy, disorganized individual who birthed three children cut from the same cloth. When I first went minimalist, I set high, unattainable expectations for myself and my home. Here are 5 Steps to Take Prior to Decluttering Your Home: Steps that when taken, make the rest of the journey just a little easier. Preoccupied with anticipation and hope, I’d missed some important first steps. However, as the dust settled, I found myself ill-equipped to maintain what I’d worked so hard to create. There was no time to pause and reflect because I was on a mission to take back my home from the infestation of stuff. I couldn’t get that stuff out of my home fast enough. Five years ago, I went minimalist on a whim, headed directly home and gutted my closet. We find minimalism and set out in hot pursuit of “less is more” without first establishing a doable route and the firm foundation to help hold it all together.īelieve me, I get it. We tend to do the same thing when decluttering our homes. I was so eager to get us where we were going, that I didn’t take the time to assess the path I was headed on. When it was all said and done, I had turned a two-and-a-half-hour road trip into almost six hours of travel! Now, the Canadians I know are quite delightful, however, that’s not where we were headed. While we were headed to Lake Michigan on the west coast, I managed to land us within minutes of the Canadian border on the East coast. Well over an hour into our trip, my husband glanced up from his phone and abruptly said, “69 East? Why are we on 69 East? We were supposed to get on 127 North.” I had the steering wheel in one hand and Cheez-Its in the other life was good. With my friend working remotely from the passenger’s seat and my husband in the backseat doing the same, I was in charge of getting us there. A few years back, we headed up north with a group of friends to spend the weekend at a family cottage. Whether it’s a weekend up north, road trip across the country or transcontinental adventure, when given the opportunity to take a trip… I’m in. ![]() This is a guest post from Rachelle Crawford of Abundant Life With Less. ![]()
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