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[quote=Anonymous]I used to be like you OP.

A few years ago we were selling our house and we had to put in storage a ton of stuff from our main living areas and our realtor brought in a professional stager.  After the staging, it looked just like those homes in magazines and I loved it!  I realized that yes, it was very possible to have a home look that way and still live in it.

We moved and I have been able to maintain that kind of home for years.  Here is what it took:

Packing up all the stuff I thought was clutter to put in storage. Then getting someone else to come in and tell me that no, there was still clutter and to pack up more. :-)

Not buying anything new for the house - toys, decorations, craft projects, gifts for the future and so on - because we were moving and we had no where to put them for the short term.  Just not doing that for two months really curtailed the habit.

Since nothing but some minor paperwork and mail was coming into the house everyday, I was able to easily keep up with that by putting it away each day.  Laundry, groceries, and toys got put right away because we couldn't have any of it lying around.  It was also easier to do because I didn't have the exhaustion of looking around and seeing all the other clutter I had not yet cleaned up.  It made putting away those few things seem easy and doable not overwhelming.

Once we moved into our new home, we kept the storage unit and didn't go to it for almost 2 years. We finally cleaned it out one Saturday morning.  We thought it would take hours but it actually took only about 1 hr and we got rid of 95% of the stuff.

so maybe consider decluttering like you are going to move. then go ahead and pay a stager to come in and stage the rooms.  You would be amazed what seeing your home in that state can do for your motivation.

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