periodically I will take a hand mirror and look at the room through it--amazing how a shift in perspective makes certain things pop out at you!
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Posted 1 year ago #
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I love the idea of using a mirror -- I'll have to give that a try.
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I have also done the photograph thing (read about it on Apartment Therapy years ago, I think) and it has worked well. Piles of magazines or the like that have become part of the room really stand out on a photo.
Another thing I did just two weeks ago was to crawl on hands and knees through every room: A friend and her toddler came to visit, and though I considered myself pretty decluttered, I know know what can easily be tugged down, chewed on and pulled out of shelves, LOL :o) Definitely need better cable management ;o)
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lol, trillie, what a mental image!
susan, I love that channeling idea :)Posted 1 year ago # -
@trillie: That's probably why you're supposed to sit for ten minutes in a part of your home where you normally never sit - during the Home Cures each Spring and Fall I mean. It works like a charm every time and I wonder why I didn't remember this one as I wrote the OP. The funny thing about photos is that they go overly 2D if you know what I mean; like you said about piles of magazines for instance. They jump right at you!
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Oops, that should have been "know now" instead of "know know" ;o)
And yes ninakk, I actually did the Home Cure once (for anyone interested, we're talking about this book: Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure), and I loved the "sit where you never sit" part. I actually rearranged the room after one session! Crawling around - moving - and imagining where a toddler might reach, is a different approach. You're less concerned with how things look, but more with what is loose enough (like cables) or lightweight and colorful enough (not the sewing machine, but maybe the box next to it containing yarn and needles, eek!) to be interesting to a child.
Re: the mirror - I think that's a fascinating idea and I've been looking for a small mirror I KNOW I have. Time to declutter inside my bags and purses! ;o)
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I babyproofed my house for my first kid, my second kid had to just spit out the stuff he put in his mouth, too difficult trying to babyproof a house when you have a 3 year old with billions of bits of tiny Lego :) My older son was an extremely inquisitive toddler, he took apart the bathroom door lock, posted my credit cards through the gaps in the floorboards, you name it! Trying to anticipate the stuff he'd get up to was pretty interesting...
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