today's goal was organization! while M was at camp and B slept (a two hour nap- horray!), i locked myself in the worst room of my house- the catch all: playroom, office, storage, guest room, art room, etc. you name it, that room is it. and it's about half the size of a normal bedroom, yet it houses EVERYTHING in the world that doesn't fit into the rest of my house (which is a lot.)
So, today, i cleaned. i threw out, i sorted. i threw out a 2010 ikea catalog. i threw out a sheet of paper with three pen marks on it. i threw out about seventeen magazines that had half the pages ripped out. these are the things that i have saved. why? why? why?
i've been this way for as long as i can remember. i keep things "just in case."
the other day, i found a 'stash' in M's room. First was a set of christmas snowmen picture holders living under a hat. Then, there was a piece of string that had come on a gift i had received two weeks ago (i don't even know where she got that from!) She had saved a subscription post card to the food network magazine in her dresser. When i asked her why she had these things, she answered "just in case." (her words.) she also has about five red plastic spoons that come in the haagen dazs single-serve ice cream cartons (a surprise her dad used to bring home for her when he would have his own 'single-serving' pints.) she keeps those "just in case" (again, her words.)
genetics are an interesting science. maybe in my next life i'll study them. but for now, i have a whole lot of "just in case" stuff laying around my house from the two of us. my goal is to finish in three weeks (before my sister and her family come to visit!) if i can't succeed in this amount of time, there is no hope for us. but, i've got a good feeling about all of this! i think, maybe, hopefully that this will be the time that we succeed! fingers crossed!
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