Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. This is episode number 111. And it's the third episode in our

October monthly experiment of decluttering every day. We're playing the min's game, which means that

every day we're going through our house and removing day one, we removed one item of clutter,

day two, two items and so on until the end of the month.

And it is now the middle of the month.

How are we going then?

We're working to that magic 498 items.

And the last week we doubled, funn enough the previous week's total each having to declutter 98 items

you know So I really struggled, like in last week's episode, we spoke about how we'd really struggled with the previous week's

decluttering. How did you find this week? I'm curious to see if you feel the same way I do.

Heaps easy. Heaps. It was, though, wasn't it?

Yeah, I just, there's a few things that helped us make it really easy.

For example, we're getting our house painted at the moment.

So we had to clear out a number of our rooms. And in doing so, enjoyed decluttering each room as we went.

It was that, I mean, look, I admit that made it definitely. So much easier. Easier. I think we could have declotted more than 98. I mean, of course we would have could have, but it just made it really easy. I think that's definitely part of it. But for me, I also looked at our stuff more dispassionately this past week than I did the week before, because we

didn't have a lot. That was the thing that I was kind of coming up against. And I'd spoken

previously about not wanting to include the kids' toys and things like that in our tally of 500

items each. So, well, to me, there's a, you know, a significant chunk of things that could maybe

disappear from their rooms.

It's not the point of this experiment.

It was more about challenging our perception of what was enough and what was clutter

and what was worth keeping and what we were kind of keeping just out of habit.

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