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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yay, OP!  Good luck and keep plugging away!

I'm a reformed hoarded/excessive clutter person, and whenever I get down about how bad my house is I have to remind myself how far I've come!   Keep the end goal in mind but don't forget to congratulate yourselves on baby steps![/quote]

Please tell us how you reformed! I'm realizing I'm a semi-hoarder, and that I am disorganized, and have lost control of my house. 
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I do as a PP said -- slow down.  I have very firm rules about what I can and cannot do.  I don't like being the kind of person who says "No, we can only do one activity per week" or "No, we can't have so and so over for dinner without planning it a day in advance" --  because I want to be more of a free spirit, go with the flow person.   But I have come to learn that I cannot keep up a spontaneous life, and still manage to keep things under control.

Some firm rules I have:

I do NOT go to bed until laundry has been done for the day.   Done means folded and put away.   I don't worry about laundry piled in hampers, but any laundry in the basement must be washed, dried, folded AND put away befor ethe day is done.

No one is done with clean up until everyone is done with cleanup.   The whole family has to help with clean up.

If someone asks me "Do you want...?" or "Could you use...?" the answer is ALWAYS NO!!!   (No thank you!)   I don't need anything.  I have too much.

We keep NO magazine past one month and NO newspaper past one week.      All magazines and newspapers go out in recycling once a week.   If we didn't read it in that week or month we aren't going to read it.   And there will always always always be more!

Any food on pantry shelves that has been there more than a month unopened must not be very good.   Yes, that organic barley quinoa sure looked interesting in teh store and it cost a lot but guess what?  If it hasn't been cooked in a month, what makes you think it'll get cooked next month?  THrow it out now.

Any food on the shelf at the grocery store that looks kind of neat?   Don't buy it unless you have a dinner planned in mind.  If you buy it you MUST serve it within the next three days.   You may only buy one such food per shopping trip.

I put something out to the curb with a sign saying "Free" every single week.

I take something to the thrift store every single week.  Even if it is just a small bag, don't let it hang around for the kids to pick through.

If I'm decluttering and I look at something and think "This might come in handy....someday"  I put it in the donate pile.   If I'm SURE it will be useful I keep it.   But if I am only imagingin scenarios where it might be useful, I get rid of it.

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