11th to 14th

The purging spree is slowing down: I am steadily getting rid of at least 2 items everyday, but choosing them from any room in the house.

There are a few items I have already identified as "dispensable", but I am slowly getting rid of them in a daily basis… We have been producing huge amounts of garbage (even though we are donating most of the things, clothes mainly) and it is nice not to have to put dow three bags of garbage everyday :)

I have now reached another phase, after getting rid of almost everything that we didn't/couldn't use: I started to ask the question: "do I like this item?". A few items are leaving the house based on that criteria already.

The digital decluttering is probably the thing that is relaxing me the most. I cleaned up my personal and work mail boxes, then I just archived all items except the ones that still required an answer. I am archiving all mail at the beginning of each week. This means that my inbox is always clean and with just a few emails - very quiet. I have also removed all social network sound notifications of my phone. Even though I do this often, I had them on during the christmas holiday. I removed all of the "one-time" or "non-useful" apps of the phone as well, and this included Facebook (I only kept the messages app because the local friends group uses it a lot to schedule events and make invitations).

I have found that I do have a lot more free time now already. The housekeeping tasks are all up-to-date, and every things looks tidy and organized, which relaxes me a lot. The same happens at work: tidy desk (also related with my attempt of not using paper as much as possible), my little "tea and cookies" corner always ready, and two plants decorating it.

Now I need to start planning on what to do with the extra time. It is more challenging than it might seem.