For Lent this year I decided to do the 40 bags in 40 days Challenge. The goal of this challenge is to give away, get rid of, trash 40 bags of stuff in your house in 40 days.
I have a list of 28 places in our house that I will be going through. During these 40 days I want to work on simplifying our lives. We have WAY too much stuff! Hudson has enough toys for 20 kids and our cabinets are over flowing with things we hardly ever use. Well not for long my friends! I'm cleaning it all out.
To me, Lent is a time of prayer, self-reflection, sacrifice, self-control and renewal. A good home de-cluttering can go hand in hand with this season. I hope this helps me to stop and think "do we really need this?" or "is there room for this?" before I buy things. I have always had a tendency to think I NEED things when in all actuality I do not need it at all.
I am going to post before and after pictures as I go through some of our closets and such. Today I tackled my desk area. Sheesh. I filled an entire trash bag from two drawers.
Before: This drawer would hardly close sometimes
After: Look how much of the side of the drawer you can actually see! Why do we collect so much junk??
Before
After
What are you doing for Lent? If you decide to do the 40 bags in 40 days let me know and we can hold each other accountable!
I'be got my list, and my trash bags.
Remember LESS IS MORE
Less of me and my stuff and more of Jesus!!!
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