Hello friends and welcome to the mini edit from Edit Your Life. In these snack-sized mini

episodes, I answer your questions about everything from self-care to parenting, to relationships,

to home, and more. Think of me like that friend you text or call when you need a quick piece of

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Today's mini edit is about spring outdoor microgoals.

It's probably not surprising that my head has been thinking about spring refreshes given

two wonderful recent conversations, the first on doable decluttering with Deanna Yates and the other on

simple home refresh tactics with Paige Lewin. I thought it would be fun and useful to share about

this topic with my micro goals lens. I originally was going to share a general home microgoals mini edit,

but as I started jotting down ideas, I found I had a lot of ideas.

And I thought it would be more useful and less overwhelming to break these episodes up into

different home zones. So let's see how this evolves. But at the moment, I can already see

separate mini episodes playing out for the closet, living area, kitchen, basement, and garage. It's actually a little

exciting. Please feel free to ping me with feedback, as this is very much in progress. But I did hear

from a lot of folks in my survey at the beginning of the year that they wanted more on home

organization and decluttering and really appreciate the small wins approach. So here we are.

Now, the recent episode on Simple Home Refresh Tactics with Paige Lewin was mostly focused on

indoor changes, but the part of our conversation about outdoors, where she advises cleaning

things up as an essential first step, really got my wheels turning. I know that doesn't

sound like rocket science, but I think in general, as a culture, we are tuned to changing things

in terms of purchases. So just getting the baseline in order was a really good reminder,

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