{"id":17453,"date":"2023-07-18T22:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prettygreentea.com\/?p=17453"},"modified":"2023-07-18T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T21:42:07","slug":"overwhelmed-with-stuff-house-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prettygreentea.com\/2023\/07\/overwhelmed-with-stuff-house-edition","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelmed with stuff – house edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve got a lot to say and about 20 half written posts to finish and share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, the main thing is… I’m back and those posts will be making their way to PGT over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s start off with a little diary entry style post. Today I’m sharing a bit of a brain dump about the clutter and overwhelm in my house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I\u2019ve been having a huge clear out of our house because there is just so much stuff that\u2019s it\u2019s overwhelming. Like, REALLY overwhelming, to the point I can\u2019t function and I can\u2019t begin to organise anything because I don\u2019t know where to start. If you know me in real life you\u2019ll always hear that I\u2019m having a declutter and you\u2019d think that it\u2019s just never ending and while that\u2019s true it\u2019s mostly because it takes me so long to do. I\u2019ll empty a cupboard and then get distracted and do something else and so everything gets put back into the cupboard at the end of the day or hidden away into a random bag and there it hides \u2018Til I get super overwhelmed again and have a go at sorting things out. Even having a bag of stuff knocking about to go to the charity shop or to upload onto Vinted is just too much at the moment. Luckily we\u2019ve been able to get rid of some things by putting them outside of our house which just makes things so much easier and they\u2019re gone by the end of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Anyway, big changes are coming to my house. I think we’re fairly on top of the kitchen and try very <\/em>hard to make sure the kitchen is put to bed<\/em> at the end of he day. If that doesn’t happen then it rolls over to the next day and who wants that! Then, as I\u2019ve said, we are in the swing of decluttering and downsizing the amount of stuff we have. I\u2019m not even talking about getting rid of major stuff. I find empty envelopes in boxes and stacks of old birthday cards. Alongside this I\u2019m working on a digital declutter which is so freeing and means I\u2019m becoming more streamlined when I\u2019m on my laptop or phone. I’ve even put myself on a domain buying ban for a while because it’s time for me to focus on Dairy Free Daisy<\/a> (she says while writing here on PGT) <\/em>and put a pause on any new ideas. Finally we are setting house systems and implementing new daily routines to make everything flow smoothly. At the moment there are pockets of organisation and little systems here and there and they work beautifully… but it needs to be a house wide thing.\u00a0Pockets of organisation aren’t enough.

I\u2019ve created an ultimate to do list which to be honest, is a working list because I\u2019m constantly adding to it. I\u2019ll be honest, it is quite overwhelming having a list like this but with the fact I can tick things off and I can also take a few of the important tasks and put them on our fridge (we need reminders everywhere) it just seems to be working. Edit: Reader, the ultimate to do list is not working<\/em><\/strong>. Back to the drawing board.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m finding that I can’t even focus on writing because I keep thinking that I should be tidying something up or sorting through a box. It’s frustrating and holding me back from working on my blogs and a whole host of other things. I mean it’s 22:28 as I’m typing this and really the only thing I should be doing is getting cosy in bed a listening to a podcast. Speaking of which, I’m going to post this and come back with another entry tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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