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Lorri
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Posted: July 05 2007 at 8:23am \| IP Logged

I am hosting the Loveliness of Clearing the Clutter in just one month! Why am I telling you now? Because I want to make sure that anyone who wants to participate has lots of time to actually clear out their clutter! You’ve got one month, so take a picture of your clutter and then get to work. When you’re finished, take another picture and blog about how lovely your new space looks. Submit your post via email to justlorri at gmail dot com. Make sure you get both r’s in my name! If you don’t have a blog and want to submit your pictures, email them to me and I’ll post them on the day of the Fair.

If you have no clutter in your house, let us all know how you do it! Have you recently cleared out some clutter? Show us how nice your home looks now. If you’re like me and are battling the clutter monster, let’s use the next 4 weeks to do make some serious headway.

I’ll be accepting posts from now until August 3rd. Don’t worry, I’ll remind you again.

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Posted: July 05 2007 at 8:41am \| IP Logged

Now here is a loveliness fair to motivate

I love it, great idea!

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Posted: July 05 2007 at 8:58am \| IP Logged

Lorri wrote:

If you have no clutter in your house, let us all know how you do it! Have you recently cleared out some clutter?

...if you decide to have 80+ guests at your home for an outdoor wedding reception...and there is the possibility of storms...you can get rid of a lot of clutter FAST

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Posted: July 05 2007 at 9:05am \| IP Logged

LOL Paula! I can see how that would work.

This is perfect timing! I'm seriously working on organizing/decluttering so we can make room for this new baby due in Sept! This is a great way to motivate myself to continue. My "before" pictures may be a little lacking (i.e. I've started already and pictures are few and far between) but I think I have enough to show the difference between mess/clutter and the "new look" LOL

Please post LOTS of reminders to keep us clutterbugs on track!

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Posted: July 05 2007 at 9:35am \| IP Logged

Paula in MN wrote:

Lorri wrote:

If you have no clutter in your house, let us all know how you do it! Have you recently cleared out some clutter?

...if you decide to have 80+ guests at your home for an outdoor wedding reception...and there is the possibility of storms...you can get rid of a lot of clutter FAST

LOL

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Posted: July 05 2007 at 10:36am \| IP Logged

Oooh, thanks for the heads up, Lorri! Will do!

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Posted: July 05 2007 at 10:41am \| IP Logged

Ack! No fair! I won't be home until Aug 4th!
Well, at least I will be able to read the fair and get some inspiration for my own de-cluttering binge.

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Posted: July 23 2007 at 7:42pm \| IP Logged

Just a friendly *bump* of this post to remind myself and others!

I'm almost done with as much decluttering as we can right now, but I need batteries for my camera, and some time to organize some shelves before I can blog about it!

Prayers for success for anyone who is working on this.

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Posted: July 23 2007 at 9:57pm \| IP Logged

Amy,

I don't think I took any before pics, but we have (dh has helped me a lot) to clear up clutter and get things more organised before our upcoming school year. Well, I still haven't tackled the basement yet, so I'll take pics down there, so you can see some befores!

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Posted: July 24 2007 at 8:33am \| IP Logged

Thanks for the bump! I was going to post another reminder today.

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Posted: July 24 2007 at 10:44am \| IP Logged

Oooohh... Lorri, I missed the first post. And I'm not sure I'll be done. But I'll definitely be reading for inspiration and post if I can!!

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Posted: July 24 2007 at 11:42am \| IP Logged

I just saw this but I'm getting on board! Too bad I didn't take a "before" picture of my kitchen pass-through but I've got plenty of other spots to work on!!

YEA!

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Posted: July 27 2007 at 3:55pm \| IP Logged

Maryan wrote:

Oooohh... Lorri, I missed the first post. And I'm not sure I'll be done. But I'll definitely be reading for inspiration and post if I can!!

Don't worry if you're not done! If you want to blog about your progress - what prompted you to get started, what your "method" is (if any) and how wonderful it feels to get rid of the clutter - then go for it!

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Posted: July 28 2007 at 4:21pm \| IP Logged

hey i just saw this What a great idea!

i actually took some "before" pics to motivate myself a few weeks back...now if i can just finish in time for the "after" pics

Maggie

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