{"id":400107,"date":"2019-03-18T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/decluttering-downsizing-and-spring-cleaning\/"},"modified":"2019-03-18T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T09:38:10","slug":"decluttering-downsizing-and-spring-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/decluttering-downsizing-and-spring-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Decluttering, Downsizing, and Spring Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Winter is still holding on, but Spring is very close. Around here that brings a lot of work in the vineyard, sheep shearing, lambs being born, and switching out seasonal items in our house.<\/p>\n

Over the years I have got in the habit of using the change of the seasons as a time to declutter and get rid of items that we don\u2019t use anymore.<\/p>\n

Moving back to NC from Alaska I learned about getting rid of a lot of stuff living on an island that is isolated meant that people would leave a lot of stuff behind. We had people give us way too many things we didn\u2019t use. We had an apartment that is bigger than the house we built and live in now. It took two truckloads and countless trips to the thrift stores to rid ourselves of the excess. We mailed a few basics back to NC and left with nothing but a carry on bag. It was a fresh start, and it set a standard for not having a bunch of stuff we don\u2019t use.<\/p>\n

Now when we change from the colder parts of the year to the warmer and vice versa, I always ask myself if it is worth storing something to use the next time the seasons change. This avoids storing things that you won\u2019t use, and it makes it easier to keep things decluttered every year.
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It is hard to get started and it can seem totally overwhelming!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

If you have a\u00a0lot of stuff then it can seem like you just don\u2019t know where to start. Start with a single room or space and then go from there<\/p>\n

Get others involved so it is not just on you.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kids and teens can help and they will probably like it a lot more if you give them some choice in what items need to go to charity, in the trash, or sold. I know that some of you may have kids that are hard to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Winter is still holding on, but Spring is very close. Around here that brings a lot of work in the vineyard, sheep shearing, lambs being born, and switching out seasonal items in our house. Over the years I have got in the habit of using the change of the seasons as a time to declutter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}