31 Days to Downsizing without Moving Archives

Organizing your home – one task at a time

Published on 03/09/2013, by A Thrifty Geek in 31 Days to Downsizing without Moving.

“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time” – Unknown Organizing your home can be a little over whelming. I have learned it is not a task that you can just start and finish quickly. Remember my 31 day challenge to down size my home? Well I got to 13 and didn’t

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31 Days to Downsizing without moving Day 13 Jewelry & Accessories

Published on 10/02/2012, by A Thrifty Geek in 31 Days to Downsizing without Moving, Frugal living.

Jewelry and Accessories are two things that I collect a lot of but I am a creature of habit and only carry and wear a few items for long periods of time. I have been carrying the same orange purse for over 4 months now. If the purse doesn’t match, I normally will just

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31Days to Downsizing Day 12 Choosing the right car or cars for your family

Published on 09/25/2012, by A Thrifty Geek in 31 Days to Downsizing without Moving, Frugal living.

My husband and I have chosen to be a one car family at the moment. We often need two cars but we make do. It has cut down so much with gas, insurance and maintenance from our budget. It has been a blessing to ride with him daily to work and get picked up. Our conversations have been wonderful

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31 Days to Downsizing Video and Entertainment Cabinet Day 11

Published on 09/20/2012, by A Thrifty Geek in 31 Days to Downsizing without Moving, Frugal living.

When my kids were little we would buy every Disney movie that came out. (Yes, on VHS) I have a cabinet full of movies that are not being watched and we don’t even have a VHS player anymore to watch them on. I still have this urge to keep everyone of them. I don’t know

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31 Days of Downsizing without Moving – Resources

Published on 09/17/2012, by A Thrifty Geek in 31 Days to Downsizing without Moving, Frugal living.

It is always great to read other people’s perspectives on how to organize and downsize. I never pretend that i have all the answers and I love to read everything that I can get me hands on about organizing and living frugal. I think it might be alittle bit of an issue in my life

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31 days to Downsizing Without Moving day 10 minimizing your cleaners

Published on 09/16/2012, by A Thrifty Geek in 31 Days to Downsizing without Moving, Frugal living.

Have you noticed there is one long isle down both sides at the grocery store that is dedicated to cleaning supplies? It is crazy. You can get a cleaner for the tile, floor, hardwood, fabric softener, laundry detergent, glass cleaner…. And the list goes on. I had a shelf full of items. You know me

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31 days to downsizing without moving. Day 9 Hauling it off

Published on 09/09/2012, by A Thrifty Geek in 31 Days to Downsizing without Moving, Frugal living.

Our first trip to Goodwill and Homeless shelter and it looks insane. I can’t believe I have been able to get ride of all this stuff. I have been downsizing for the past three weeks and the whole back seat and trunk is full of stuff. Here are a couple of things that I have

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31 Days to Downsizing Without Moving Craft Room Day 8

Published on 09/01/2012, by A Thrifty Geek in 31 Days to Downsizing without Moving, Frugal living.

My craftroom was out of control. I had so many projects started and never finished and just laying around on the table. I was able to downsize my craft room just by cleaning up. Here is what I did. 1. Took all the scrapbook paper and stacked it up neatly. I did not keep scraps

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31 Days to Downsizing Without Moving. Day 7. Surprise in the closet

Published on 08/30/2012, by A Thrifty Geek in 31 Days to Downsizing without Moving, Frugal living.

Oh my!!! I started on the closet in our bedroom that is our daughters room ( she is now in her own home). I had no idea how much stuff was in there. This closet serves as a storage for her things that she doesn’t need right now or her off season clothes. Plus items

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31 Days to Downsizing Your Home without Moving – Strategy for the week

Published on 08/28/2012, by A Thrifty Geek in 31 Days to Downsizing without Moving, Frugal living.

When you are downsizing your home, it is impossible to tackle it every day. Especially if you have a family, work, social, church, etc. I tackled a lot over the weekend and very excited about how much stuff I was able to purge. But once the week has started, I am not able to focus

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