Live Green | Declutter | Simplify Life
Welcome to Week 17 of the 52-Week Decluttering Challenge. This week, we’re moving on to the bathroom. It’s one of the most-used rooms in our homes, and it’s where we start and end our days so we can enjoy immediate benefits from our decluttering efforts.
We’ll start with an easy task by decluttering under the bathroom sink.
In this week’s edition of The Sunday Spark, I discuss how long I think it will take to reach my retirement goal of reading 1000 books. Plus: the best plant-based milk for the environment, the world’s largest solar power site, why water is a precious resource, and decluttering books and magazines.
Are you an avid reader? Do you have piles of books that haven’t seen the light of day in years? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you’ll want to pay special attention to this week’s task in the 52-Week Decluttering Challenge. This week, we’re decluttering books and magazines.
Last weekend, I unplugged for 48 hours and returned feeling physically, mentally, and spiritually refreshed. This week, I took some time to reflect on gifts and talents—especially the undervalued gifts that society doesn’t always appreciate.
In addition to undervalued gifts, this week’s edition of The Sunday Spark looks at National Gardening Day, daylighting buried rivers, climate change and your morning coffee, and decluttering media.
Welcome to week 15 of the 52-Week Decluttering Challenge. This week, we continue our living and family room clean-up by organizing and decluttering media—CDs, DVDs, records and even cassettes. If you have a large media collection, you’ll want to join in.
I’m a big fan of seasonal decorations. It’s always fun to brighten up the house with a few holiday-themed items.
But, like everything else we own, these items can easily accumulate and turn into clutter. A good declutter of my seasonal treasures is long overdue.
This week’s task in the 52-Week Decluttering Challenge is decluttering Easter decorations.
It’s week 13 of the 52-Week Decluttering Challenge. We’re one-quarter of the way through the challenge.
This week, we move on to our living areas. This includes some of the high-traffic areas of our homes like living rooms, dining rooms and family rooms. We’ll start with decluttering our living area table surfaces.
When I decided to revisit my 52-Week Decluttering Challenge this year, I knew it was just a matter of time before I’d find something that would inspire me to reprise the Clutter Tales series. It took a few weeks into the year, but then I discovered my old blue suede bowling shoes. They brought back a lot of memories, but it was time to let them go.
Released this week, the 2024 World Happiness Report paints a worrisome picture of the mental state of young people in English-speaking countries, especially here in North America.
In addition to the World Happiness Report, this week’s edition of The Sunday Spark looks at the cost of loneliness, the 2023 Air Quality Index, the environmental promise of white paint, and decluttering accessories.
In week 12 of the 52-Week Decluttering Challenge, we wrap up our closet clear-out by sorting and decluttering a few miscellaneous accessories that we often overlook when we do a closet purge. Today’s task involves decluttering scarves, belts and jewellery. There’s a pretty good chance you’ve got a lot of these items taking up space in your home.
