![]() ![]() They were sad, upset, angry and just plain mad. The kids cried when they told them about giving up these things. Oprah’s crew came into the house and documented the whole thing. The One Week Experimentįor one week, the parents let each of their three children pick five toys to keep… 15 toys in total. They had them in closets, toy boxes, in bins, etc… The sad part is that I think that is very common. The parents said that they had more toys than any child should have, which I’m sure so many of us can relate to. The mother of the house felt like all she did was work to buy them things and then she couldn’t even keep up with what they had because, even though her home wasn’t messy, it felt cluttered, like they had ‘too much stuff’… So, Oprah asked this family to give something up for one week. I was listening to a re-run of The Oprah Show on the radio the other day and she was interviewing a husband and wife with 5 children, talking about how they were stressed – as parents, as a married couple, as homeowners and just in general, because their children seemed to be acting entitled and no one was appreciative of all of the “stuff” that they had ( clutter = stress. We spend hours and hours trying to clean, find things that we’ve misplaced and just organize our stuff that we miss out on times with our family. We are so busy trying to keep the house clean that we are losing sight of what really matters. Read on to see what works and how to start decluttering now.ĭo you know who gets lost in this mix of cleaning & decluttering every day? Our family. ![]() Clutter also affects your life and your family, but there are solutions that can clear your home of unwanted clutter and clear you of unwanted stress. In fact, I shared in a previous post some studies that prove that clutter & stress are linked.
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