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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, I'll admit up front that I need help with this too, but when I look at that missminimalist site it just looks depressing. She's downright monastic! Think I'll aim for something in between that and a hoarder. [/quote]

Know your limits, right? And know your goals -- I want to be able to find things relatively quickly.

I think we need to cut ourselves some slack when the kids are really little. There is probably going to be a fair amount of mess most of the time. It gets easier as they get older and you have time to clean out drawers, can donate things they've outgrown, etc.

I needed to accept that I was hanging onto a lot of things that I thought my kids wanted even though what was really happening was that I couldn't bear to admit that I had sunk a lot of money into something the kids didn't like or didn't like any longer. I kept imagining circumstances in which it would be handy to have something, rather than figuring out I could do to get something for little or no money if it turned out I needed it.

Also, if you've got lots of scrappy things (half-used sticker or coloring books, say), keep one and toss the rest. [/quote]

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