Take the LT Purge Challenge

Have you ever looked at your house and seen it as others would if they walked in unannounced?

Don’t cringe. Get up and do something about it.

Here’s my advice for the day. Grab a garbage bag and take a tour. Anything that your eyes fall upon that you don’t love, haven’t used and don’t have a place for, put it in the bag. Free your space of the things without meaning, so the things that actually mean something can take center stage.

It’s a freeing experience, to toss what doesn’t have meaning. You streamline your space and clear your head. Don’t take time to hem and haw over whether to toss or not. The whole point of the exercise is to be ruthless, to learn how to overcome the indecision that at times paralyzes us all. That’s when we fall into a rut and lose sight of our goals, blinded by all the needless stuff that really surrounds us.

Your challenge is this: How many items can you toss? Ten? Thirty? Fifty? The reader who gets rid of the most and sends a photo of their magnificent out pile to linearthoughts@comcast.net will win four free hours of in-home organizing. Get motivated! Worst-case scenario? You wish you had back what you tossed, and you go on eBay and find it again.

Get started and see how far it takes you.

Good luck!

LT