Storage

Our family of five lives in a 1400 square foot home.  We have no garage or storage shed.  We do have a storage room in the basement.

I had lots of stuff down there and have removed 3 bags to donate and 2 bags of junk!  I feel good about the space for the first time since we moved into our home.

 I have 5 bins for Christmas, a Christmas tree, 2 convertible toddler car seats and our camping stuff in that space.  Our summer screen doors are there as well.   I cleared out our nightstands and made little desk to accommodate my sewing machine and scrapbook stuff. 

In this space I have our stock groceries, gifts and art supplies. 

Working at Minimalism

I really don't want to be a minimalist in the true sense of the word.  I want to be able to organize everything I have and care for it properly.   Since I am not extremely organized in our home or in my mind, the best way to do that is to have less stuff!
I only want to keep things that our family truly needs or that we find beautiful.  Everything else must go.
The main room consists of three spaces, dining, kitchen and living room.
Since we have nice molding around our windows I got ride of the pointless sheers that only served the children to rearrange and drive me batty.  It seemed bare at first, but now I like it.  Less mental clutter.
I also got rid of all the paperwork on the fridge and set up a paperwork station above the staircase and out of the main room.  
I also centered the couch, which was pushed aside to make room for the Christmas tree and then we just put the swing there.  The baby will be moving to the nursery soon and so I decided to keep the bassinet in the corner for now. 

 To be fair this is the before shot:

Declutter bathroom two

The kid's bathroom is easier to clean because there is not much in there.  I think that is the whole idea of minimalism.  Less stuff, less to care for, clean up and wash.  It took me less than 10 minutes to declutter and clean up.

Going Minimalist... again!

I'm working on decluttering my house, again.  Clutter just seems to sneak up on me.

I started small in the bathroom, but threw out two bags of stuff! :)

before

after

before

after

this drawer was filled with junk...

It feels good to purge and get rid of things.  I also identified things that I can sell on the local Facebook sale page!