We have been on the 'warpath' around here against clutter! This has been in the making for a little while now but it just recently started to actually happen! (=
Quite a while ago (maybe a yr or so) I picked up a book at a thrift store on clutter control. For a while it became part of the clutter! :/ But then one day I started to read it... and then read more... and then other books... and blogs... and 'googled' clutter control. All by moms who have or are having success in the clutter control area. Of course these moms had to be good mothers and wives with sound principles or their clutter control ideas were carefully handled! (Taken with a pill) Not that clutter control has anything major to do with principles (??it might??) but I don't want to shirk my family for the 'spotless' house! Or spend to much of my husbands hard earned money!!!
So now we are living a rather different life then we once were and that is what I am sharing! (=
The very first thing I had to figure out was to 'eat that frog'! Or to do the job I dread the most FIRST before any other jobs! I highly recommend the Eat That Frog book written by Brian Tracy. Even tho it might not be about clutter it still helps! (=
Also, use the 'slight edge' on everything. It doesn't have to all be done today but a little here and a little there must be done every day! And then maintained. Everyday.
Involve the children. Ask for ideas (and use them). Praise them at least 5 times for every correction you must give. And do a little here, a little there, everyday!
And draw every day from God Who gives us the strength to be Mothers! (=
Clutter control is just that. Controlling clutter! In my case with my tiny house that meant getting rid of it! At first it was hard but now 'things' get thrown out or given away quite happily because after all the only 'things' I get to keep when Jesus comes back is my husband and children! (=
So my encouragement to you is, if you don't like clutter and you DO like to be organized then you CAN do it!! (= I was one of the most disorganized 'phlegs' ever! So start reading and motivating yourself and let yourself go! (=
