My old roommate and I used to have an activity that we called “Liberation through Clothing Donation”. As much as we hated dealing with cleaning out our closets, we loved the feeling of moving that bag of undesirable clothes out of our bedrooms and dropping it off at the GoodWill.
For the past few years, Heather has hosted a Clothing Swap, which enables us to go through each other’s bags before hitting the women’s shelter where we now donate our clothes.
And now I’ve just learned about the 27-Fling Boogie. This is a phrase that comes from the FlyLady, who is an online trainer of housewives and husbands. If you don’t have a housecleaner or nanny, you should definitely explore her site.
If you just want to feel good in about twenty minutes, try her suggested activity:
As fast as you can, take a garbage bag and walk through your home and throw away 27 items. Do not stop until you have collected all 27 items. Then close the garbage bag and pitch it. DO NOT LOOK IN IT!!! Just do it.
Next, take an empty box and go through your home collecting 27 items to give away. This will change the energy in your home and bring about good feelings. Every time I do this I feel better and my home is becoming decluttered in the process. As soon as you finish filling the box, take it to the car. You are less tempted to rescue the items.
Rule of thumb: if you have two of any item and you only need one, get rid of the least desirable.
Friends, you know this would be a better way to spend a nap than Internetting. And I know where to start with my purging - my makeup bag and jewelry box. What the hell am I storing in there? Quite a few things that qualify as trash.
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Do it! I want to know how it goes… or come do it at my house.
As a (trying to reform) crap collector, I love this idea and will try it this weekend.
i’m the biggest horder. not as bad as that one woman on oprah (ok that was nastee) LOL
but…..i think i’ll start with my shoes. holy cow i cannot believe i just wrote that. but…it’s sooo necessary. it’s not funny anylonger i need to do it or do something. i llove your site.
great idea. does the flylady say how to find the time to do it?
Can we start with little toys that are a pain to pick up? Hehe!
I’m pretty sure my own makeup bag is pretty scary. Thanks for the reminder to get rid of stuff. My closet really needs an overhaul!
I LOVE FLylady. I have used her ideas for awhile now. My sister was “down in the dumps” one day and I went over to hang out. She was complaining about her house, specifically her play room. So I got two garbage bags and had her do the 27 fling boogie. We threw an entire bag of trash away, and another to donate. Which I took, so no one could go through it later.
It is amazing how much better she felt after only about 45 minutes, and how much better her play room looked.
Cluttered home, cluttered mind. Cluttered minds will lead to deppressed ones. So get a new attitude, and fling it girl!
I’m so glad to hear that you are also a flylady fan. I’ve been a closet flylady follower for about a year now and it’s really helped my house out. I guess I’ve always been embarresed to admit that I like her because her site is well, so housewife-y, but her system works so well!
Speaking of a 27 fling boogie, my familyroom is driving me nuts it’s so cluttered. I think I’ll go do a quick cleanup while Mr. Rodgers is still on!
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