• Minimal Living • Declutter in 30

It's said we spend 55 minutes a day looking for things. A DAY, PEOPLE. That's 2 weeks a year - just looking for things we cannot find! (For me, it's probably closer to a month☺) It's already November, and that means Christmas is just around the corner... and if you still haven't gotten your act together from last year and still have that hall closet jammed full of crap **slowly raises hand** then there's no better time than the present to start purging!

November is filled with many things. Cooler weather. Falling leaves. Holidays that makes your pants not fit. and 30 days. The perfect amount of time to declutter around your home - tackling one space at a time. Now is the time so you're not shoving the box of baby toys under the couch when your guests arrive.

I have spent the last couple months getting rid of quite a bit around the house and have been trying to minimize the amount of stuff we have. It's been so refreshing, and it makes tidying up the house a breeze! Who doesn't love that?

The plain is simple. Tackle one area on the sheet each day, declutter and get rid of everything you don't use, haven't used in the last 6 months, or forgot was even there. Do you need it? No - throw is out. Do you have something similar? Yes - throw it out. Is it taking up precious real estate in your home unnecessarily? Yes - Get rid of it. You can get rid of it by any means - Sell it. Donate it. Trash it. But get it out of the house the very same day, and cross out that day's box. Hooray! One are closer!

Now you don't have to use my sheet. You can make your own, pretty it up with whatever you like or that motivates you. Don't have an endless amount of baby toys laying around? Replace it with something else. Don't have a backyard that collects things like we do? Tackle the garage instead. Possibilities are endless - the point is just to get moving, before your Great Aunt Suzie arrives and starts fiddling through your drawers looking for the Ziploc bags just to find the stash of candy wrappers in the junk drawer. Happy decluttering!