Meantime, I'd go down to the creek with watering cans, empty milk jugs, pails, etc, just to get water to flush that brown stuff down! Don't you know that creek was uphill on the return trip, and a steep uphill to boot! The kids and I always made it an adventure. He didn't care, he'd still flush then leave for work where he had all the water he'd need, leaving the kids and I without any water (part of the reason he's an ex). I even used to put tape across the flush handle with a note to please not flush. My ex would ALWAYS flush and thus use up all of the water. I have a well and septic which require electricity to run, so during an outage there's usually enough water left in the pipes for one flush and one handwashing, or a bunch of handwashings, a few teeth brushings, and misc other minimal kitchen water needs. If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down. I think this goes a long way to letting your mind rest, almost as much as decluttering and tidying does. What has helped is removing the 'silent to do list' as much as possible (others on this thread have mentioned it) and also taking Marie Kondo's advice to remove words from your home environment (so minimising labels, removing signs with little aphorisms on them etc). When my place is messy, it usually means my mind feels a bit chaotic. I definitely notice a link between my environment and mental state. It's when any of those 4 actions get stuck that there is a snag. ![]() I think as long as long as there is flow and change in your stuff (discarding what you don't want, using up hoards of anything, periodic decluttering, and new things entering your life), that's healthy. You'll get back to it when the time is right. Sometimes you'll wrap a few layers back into the onion over a year or so. Sometimes you'll do two layers in a weekend. What doesn't.well, tweak it, nudge it along, think about why it doesn't work, let it evolve.Īlso decluttering is like layers of an onion, but it doesn't get peeled consistently. ![]() ![]() What works for you will stick and become a habit. To start with, it might be the tiniest routine, eg when I boil the kettle in the morning I will unload the dishwasher. I would say go with your own personal flow, rather than set something rigid and then get frustrated when it's not done. Just have to keep slowly creating good habits.Īnyone else going through this or have any words of wisdom? Consuming less and unsubscribing from all marketing and generally not bringing anything new into the household has helped not add to our existing mess. Set a schedule for tasks, versus doing them when I am inspired or over caffeinated. ![]() I think the way I’m going to tackle this moving forward, if I do indeed finish my well functioning house mission, is to just put a bunch of guard rails in place. I am also an adult that is now being treated for ADHD, so these things are probably connected :) I feel as if my physical space is intricately tied to my mental space. I barely take a moment to celebrate before moving onto the next area, because I just get the sense that until I finish getting my house in order, I can’t get my head in order. Lately, maybe it’s being home more because of the pandemic, but I am on a bit of a mission for mental clarity that also coincides with my house decluttering. In the past, I might’ve seen a big clutter area, cleaned it out and moved on, even if there are other areas of clutter to be tackled. I’m writing today though about the feeling that physical clutter is mental clutter. I know we all go through stages, especially seasonally, when you get the urge to declutter and start over a little bit.
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