30 Day Minimalist Challenge!

I really just want to take this moment and apologize to all the people who follow me on Pinterest. You have probably seen me pin tons of different challenges, most of which I never actually do, but this one is different. I found a fairly easy 30 day minimalist challenge. See, the biggest struggle I have with cleaning in general is I always try to do everything at once. Which then leads to me getting angry and deciding to give up and just let our house be a mess. However, this "challenge" split it up so well that even I could do it. Plus, it's called a challenge which makes it even more fun in my overly competitive mind. Anyway back to my point, we started this yesterday and it already seems to be going super well. Zayden and I decided we were going to work together on it since he is really the only kid okay with becoming a minimalist and he's super excited about the thought of getting rid of things that we don't use. Yesterday the challenge was to get rid of five things, we decided to get rid of stuff from the boxes that have been sitting in the hallway for about seven months now. Once we decided what we wanted to get rid of and bagged it up we were quite proud of our accomplishment(Jason made fun of this because it was so easy). Todays challenge was a little harder for us because it required cleaning my least favorite room-the kitchen. I don't know why, but our kitchen never seems to get a deep cleaning. Maybe it's because no one sees the point because we mess it up ten seconds later? I'm not sure, but the challenge today was to clean the counters. For us to do that we had to actually decide what needed to stay and what served no purpose. If you know me, you know I love candles, probably more than a human should and my collection from Yankee Candle is quite large. While cleaning the counters I had to decide what to do with them and sadly that meant getting rid of some. I will admit, the ones I got rid of didn't have much wax or I didn't enjoy the smell, but that's not the point! I love having a sweet smelling home and it pains me to get rid of things like this. I keep reminding myself, things don't make you happy memories do. I think I will survive without a few candles and I am very proud that I'm making such large leaps with the minimalist journey. It's hard at times because so many people say I can never do it, but I know what being a minimalist truly means and I'm okay with not being the perfect one. My main goal is to make sure I don't end up on hoarders one day to be honest, because sometimes I feel like we have so much stuff that we're headed that way. I can't wait to see what our house looks like at the end of our challenge and I really hope I can stick to it!