{"id":148,"date":"2011-11-06T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/2011-11-06-clutterinspiration\/"},"modified":"2011-11-06T10:55:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T10:55:16","slug":"2011-11-06-clutterinspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/06\/2011-11-06-clutterinspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Clutter Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out I was indeed getting sick yesterday. Still feeling low: sore, scratchy throat and chest feels full. However, compared to most illnesses this is nothing so I&#8217;m not complaining. Being sick when you have a baby is a whole new experience. Good-bye long lie-ins in bed with tea and a good book! Hello walking girlie around the house and playing baby games all day! Though again, why complain? Husband took baby out for a walk and I&#8217;ve had some time to myself.<br \/>\nWhat did I do with my time? Well &#8230; okay, I admit it. I&#8217;ve chored it out. Clearing\/cleaning from breakfast. Putting away the rest of the clothes from my trip. Picking outfits for the week (with a level of detail I haven&#8217;t done before: jackets, belts, bras). Taking down winter coats, putting away fall jackets.<\/p>\n<p>I also dumped a few more things in the give-away box. Inspired by <a title=\"this blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.declutterdaily.com\/\">this blog<\/a>, I&#8217;m moved to add one item of daily decluttering to my life. I&#8217;d like to downsize our stuff even if we don&#8217;t downsize our space for a while. Since yesterday, I&#8217;ve added the following items to our give-away box:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 baby toques (don&#8217;t fit)<\/li>\n<li>2 washcloths (don&#8217;t absorb water)<\/li>\n<li>a button I won&#8217;t wear<\/li>\n<li>too-tight baby tights<\/li>\n<li>socks<\/li>\n<li>a book (I don&#8217;t feel like reading about infidelity disguised as finding yourself)<\/li>\n<li>1 small purse: strap is breaking, and it&#8217;s reached the end of its fit in my life<\/li>\n<li>1 movie (Footloose! Recommend. Anyone local want this on dvd?)<\/li>\n<li>3 baby headbands that never really worked<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nothing huge yet, though I have my eye on some of our glasses: we have enough and these are outliers to the set. I also am feeling a paper purge coming on as I haven&#8217;t decluttered our filing cabinet in a while. As I mentioned, my paper stash has dwindled significantly but I still have too much. OH for a streamlined office!!! I&#8217;m thinking about also finding what papers I can scan and discard, just to free up filing space.<\/p>\n<p>One strategy I haven&#8217;t fully implemented yet, though, is the &#8220;one in, one out&#8221; rule. I would think that this would be something I&#8221;d jump on, but not yet. I sometimes like my stuff, and even if I get a new BLANK, remain attached to the old BLANKETY BLANK. Winter jackets are a good example. I now have only 2 long down winter coats :). I had 3 last year but got rid of the biggest, ugliest one with the zipper that sometimes went. I think I&#8217;ll eliminate the fancier, prettier but maybe a tiny bit too tight one next, leaving me with a fully functional wardrobe of ONE serious winter coat. And though as soon as I wrote that my mind jumped to wanting a lovely stylish cloth coat for those times between &#8220;fall jacket that&#8217;s warmish&#8221; and &#8220;wow it&#8217;s cold! Break out the down!&#8221;, reason stepped in and told me that I don&#8217;t need more. I don&#8217;t need more!<\/p>\n<p>Now to seize the last few minutes before the return of husband and baby. Pay a bill or two; read a book?!; sort papers??? We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out I was indeed getting sick yesterday. Still feeling low: sore, scratchy throat and chest feels full. However, compared to most illnesses this is nothing so I&#8217;m not complaining. Being sick when you have a baby is a whole new experience. Good-bye long lie-ins in bed with tea and a good book! Hello walking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}