Our bedrooms are supposed to be restful sanctuaries…a place to lay our head and hopefully forget about the demands and stresses of our day to day lives.

Well…let me tell you…this was not relaxing. As our door is childlocked and generally kept closed during daytime, our bedroom had become a dumping ground for so many random storage items.

I’ve tried decluttering before, working bit by bit but always lost motivation part way through and never really making headway…as the clutter would end up being moved to other rooms.

Well, with four child-free hours a few days ago, I literally gutted the room of everything except for furniture and piled it thoughout the rest of my home.

I firstly went through the items that were strewn throughout our kitchen, living room, hallway and bathroom, being incredibly ruthless as to whether that item was really necessary to keep and if we had room for it. I had no choice but to keep up the process as our bed was quite literally covered and unable to be slept in!

I had three handy laundry baskets – Keep, Donate & ‘Unsure’ plus a bin for tossed items. This is how I usually organise and I’ve found it really helps speed up the process so as not to linger too long on each item.

After that, I proceeded to go through drawers one by one. I found some useful dividers in a random box and re-folded items. I was sick of picking up jeans and other items, and tossing aside cause no longer fits me… (after two kids back to back…a lot of my clothes don’t fit anymore…but I am in process of losing more weight) so I assigned two cube storage boxes to keep items that were slightly too small.

I’ve never been so ruthless going through items but boy, was it totally worth it! I cannot believe the huge pile of donation items I ended up with on our front porch and our garbage bin was 1/3 full of broken items and packaging.

This is what I accomplished…in four hours whilst my 4yro and 2yro were at kindy/daycare.

The challenge will be keeping it this way and not allowing any clutter to edge it’s way back!