36th day

It has been more than a month since I started the de-cluttering/organizing process. And it is great!

I am now on the second month of not buying toys-books-clothes-shoes-accessories and it has been a lot easier than I was expecting… The main difference I notice now is that I do not spend most of my at home computer time browsing online shops like amazon, book depository, think geek, alpha geek, and a few clothes brands - I spend time doing research on minimalism, simple living, and de-cluttering techniques.

A great day-to-day thing that I still notice every day is how clean and relaxing my mailbox is.. both personal and at work. Archiving or deleting email weekly has done wonders for my peace of mind concerning emails.

The house is definitively more organized, looks 100% tidy 95% of the time, and is also cleaner - somehow, having less things and having them organized and "not on top of other things" as helped a lot with our willingness to clean, and we have been able to maintain our cleaning tasks pretty much up-to-date.

I still have a few big items that I need to get rid of, but have not done it so far because I actually do no know how to do it in Norway - I will have to ask a local. We have an old iron board and also a broken suitcase that do not fit in the regular garbage, so we need to find out where to leave them.

For my things the purge process has been quite easy (apparently I am not very attached to things in general), but the common items and Filipe's things have been more difficult to handle. The drawers with Filipe's stuff are completely fill up with the lost items I found in other places and throughout the house de-cluttering. There are also a bunch of cables and electronics for which I need his opinion on what to do (most are not mine so I really do no know whether they are needed/working or not).

I did not register all the items I got rid of during this month and a few days, but my wardrobe looks quite spacious now, so I would guess I have reduced it by half (probably the same with the shoes as well). I tried to make a list of the things I remembered giving away but I really can not recall them… I am glad they are gone, whatever they were…

I still need to work a it on my office though… I have a lot of things to do at the moment, so I stopped taking the 10 minutes de-clutter break that I was doing in the first 2 weeks. I hope I can do that again soon.