What I learned this week:  Ok this week I share two tips about decluttering.  The first one really is such a great motivator for your brain which is to walk around the house with a trash bag and look for trash to throw away.  While you are doing that you keep telling your self that you deserve to have a clean declutter home and that decluttering is easy.  These two things help your brain start associate finding trash and then decluttering as a good and fun thing which it may not have been before.   Then after you do that you go and look to see if there are a few things in your house that you have no problem donating.  That video with the Clutterbug lady is below.

The other decluttering tip that I really liked was that to make declutter just a part of your life.  Have a few boxes around your house that are for donation and when you come across something that you can get rid of then you just put it in the box.  Make it just part of while you going through your life instead of an extra step.  I think this is also a great step as I learned to become.  Someone who declutters it is just part of you life - so a box of donation bag is just always somewhere and you just are filling it.  

Then I share the story about when our pipe burst after a polar vortex while we were out of town on an anniversary cruise.  We had only been gone maybe 12 hour before our kids had to face this crisis.  But they did such a good job, calling neighbors and friends to help, turn off the water and then clean it all up.  When we got home I wouldn't even have known.   These polar vortex's which we just had are super fun but now we know to make sure to keep this particular pipe warm when it happens.