The progress is obvious now!

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I'm really thrilled with just how much I've been able to accomplish at home this week. I hadn't expected it to be much, because I wasn't feeling well on Monday and spent a lot of time lazing about. But on Tuesday I buckled down and began tackling the clutter in the living room. The kids' toys went into a storage bin to be organized later, several boxes of assorted things went out the door to be donated, scrubbed down the kids' table and chairs, and I even broke out the carpet cleaner and tackled the worst of the spots on the carpet. (I owe huge thanks to sharon6345, because it was her advice that led me to purchase a bottle of LA's Totally Awesome All-Purpose Cleaner and that stuff did wonders for the strawberry stains the kids left on the carpet.) I didn't feel like doing much yesterday, but I cleared all of the clutter off of the coffee table. Today, I dove back in after getting home from work. The boxes of books I want to sell have gone out to the car. I filled several more boxes with things to donate, and my husband put them in his car and drove them over to the thrift shop across the street. I'm down to a stack of empty boxes in the corner of the living room and three or four plastic bins to sort through, but the majority of the junk in the room is GONE! This is such an improvement over the way it was... and I admittedly still have a ton of work to do on the apartment as a whole, but this round of cleaning is going much better than any I've done in the past because I'm so focused on decluttering as I go. It's real progress, not just shuffling things around so it kinda sorta looks a bit better. I'd keep working on it this evening, but I have to work in the morning and don't want to overdo things tonight. It's amazing how addictive this newfound feeling of freedom is!