Day 8 of the Spring Fling and it’s time to get some rest and reclaim your bedroom!
Is your bedroom where all your “stuff” goes to hide? Is this the place where the stash and dash gets “stashed”? If so, it’s time to reclaim your bedroom so you can relax.
I KNOW that I sleep better in a room free from clutter. I’m not distracted by all the things that need to be put away and dealt with. (And bonus! I have a lot smaller chance of tripping and dying if I need to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.)
It Gets Better: Reclaim your Bedroom
It does get better, the more you work on it. And you deserve better in your bedroom. You deserve a place to rest and restore without having to look at bags of Goodwill donations every single morning.
Make this room a priority. I want you to have a retreat — a place where you can close off the door and just be, in peace.
Instructions
– Set up your three boxes/totes and two bags.
– Make your bed so you have a clear space to work off.
– Set a timer for 10 minutes and FLING!
Anything that doesn’t belong in the bedroom, get it out of the bedroom. Don’t use your closet to store your kid’s hockey equipment. I want what’s in there to bring you peace. If you don’t use it, don’t love it, and wouldn’t buy it again, get it out of there!
Bonus
Bring some life into your bedroom.
We share a fence with a neighbor. About once a month, we have to cut back their hedges on our property. This has always been a source of frustration. (We have a hard time gardening for ourselves, much less our neighbors.) But now, I’m turning that frustration into an opportunity. I’m taking the blooms from those hedges and filling up mason jars around my house. Having fresh flowers in my room gives me a sense of peace.
Can you bring something new into your room? A new pillow, a picture frame, fresh flowers?
If you are really going great guns, I would suggest cleaning out your nightstand as well and stocking it with essentials: cough drops, Tylenol, lavender oil, a reading light and a good book.
Share Your Fling
After you fling, either tell us about it or share a picture in the comments. Remember, each day (at the end of the Fling) there will be one winner, randomly drawn from the comments, who will receive a copy of The Cure for the Perfect Life from Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory. So share below and tell us about your fling.
I cleared lotions and creams off the dresser and put them in the bathroom cabinet which I had cleaned out last week. Dresser looks so much better. Also had cleaned out dresser drawers so made room for more things in there too.
My bedroom has a long way to go but I did get rid of a lot of clutter in my daughter’s dresser that is in my room. Also put away most of the things in a hamper that came out of my other daughter’s room a couple weeks ago when I helped her in her room.
We tackled our bedroom yesterday! It looks so good. It makes me smile each time I walk in there now! No more piles of kids clothes all over the room!!!
Focused on getting 20 items gone today as I was short on time. What a difference it made to the top of my dresser and jewelry box. I can see more of the surface which was encouraging, found out I can start a large extra button collection, and already feel a little more peaceful in there! Every bit helps.
My bedroom is one of the hardest rooms in the house to keep neat, today I clean my nightstand and the dresser. Small victories right?
I was not as energetic today but I did get rid of odds and ends. And put lots of things off the dresser and back to other rooms. I am hoping tommorrow goes better.
Unfortunately most of the problem areas in our bedroom don’t belong to me ?. So, I did what I could and worked on my nightstand. Garbage and toys brought to me by retriever-like children–gone. Spent a little more time in the office to finish up.