Junkyard

Yup. My current place looks like one. I try to crop or angle the junk out of my Instagram shots most of the time, but no matter what, in reality, the piles of clutter are there. My first excuse? Well we moved from a 110 sq m flat to squat at my in-laws' condo. It has been 6 years of squatting. Here, we only have 2 bedrooms to ourselves. From 2 kids, we grew to double that number. 6 of us stayed in 2 bedrooms. Things just started spilling out of our bedrooms when we didn't have enough storage space. Shelves of books overflowed. Storage boxes of snacks overflowed. Toys were everywhere. Books--story books, school books, assessment books, they just kept increasing. There was no space to store them. My kids didn't have a study table of their own as there was no space to put any. They had to do their homework, art work, etc. at the dining table, of which 1/3 of the table top space was again, filled with piles of letters, snacks, medicine, vitamins, batteries, wallets, watches, brochures, odd Lego pieces. It was an eyesore that everyone just gave up trying to clear after a while.

It was BAD. 

For the past few days, I have been decluttering. I bet I've thrown away at least 20 bags of junk. And that was just from 2 areas in the living room area! My kids are like, "Wow Mom! The place looks so nice now!" Ha. Ha. Ha. 

I think there's gonna be at least 30-40 more bags of junk to throw away! 

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