Check out this posting on Small Notebook.org
Janet Jackson's guide to Decluttering
smallnotebook.org/2009/09/07/janet-jacksons-guide-to-decluttering/
I'm down to 2 weeks before I have to have all my stuff packed up and ready to move to Florida and I really need to start heeding the call of "what has my stuff done for me lately" - when will I use it again, why am I keeping it, what does it do for me today. I really do want to live a simpler life. But wow have I got "stuff" and just physically sorting through it all, making all these keep / pitch / donate decisions is difficult and time consuming.
All young people should have to work a day in a pack-rats home going through this process of downsizing and decluttering - just to show them what NOT to DO in their own lives. Our stuff owns us, rather than us owning it.
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Feb 3, 2009
Talk about a FULL HOUSE
The House if Full!
That's what my late dear husband always used to say. And he was correct!!
Every nook and cranny of our home is filled to the gills with STUFF!!
Both he and I were/are packrats, and collectors of many things.
We subscribe to at least 10 publications, kept lots of our junk mail too.
I print out tons of paper - with information on how to do things, like crafts I'm going to make - (but rarely if ever do - LOL) and recipes, and other assorted items I deem to be "printable".
I have stacks and stacks of this STUFF.
Well this madness has got to stop at some point - and the stopping and the starting some action time for me will be this April - when I return from my Snowbirding vacation in Florida - and get back in gear in my home in Buffalo NY.
I have decided that it's time for me to make the house
ready for SALE.
That means getting rid of, sorting of, dreading of, dealing with
- the "STUFF".
I did however find some helpful information online -
and websites that will "help" me
>> insert pause here << while I print these pages out and file on top of the Pile
of STUFF right next to me
Find:
100 Reasons to Get Rid of It
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/100-reasons-to-get-rid-of-it
here's the complete article to print out
http://tinyurl.com/atunmz
First Published: March/April 2007
Copyright 2008 Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. All rights reserved.
If quitters never win, and winners never quit, than who is the fool who said,
"Quit while you're ahead"?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wish me luck.
It certainly doesn't help much that I am a Procrastinator Extraordinaire!
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."
Dawson Trotman
That's what my late dear husband always used to say. And he was correct!!
Every nook and cranny of our home is filled to the gills with STUFF!!
Both he and I were/are packrats, and collectors of many things.
We subscribe to at least 10 publications, kept lots of our junk mail too.
I print out tons of paper - with information on how to do things, like crafts I'm going to make - (but rarely if ever do - LOL) and recipes, and other assorted items I deem to be "printable".
I have stacks and stacks of this STUFF.
Well this madness has got to stop at some point - and the stopping and the starting some action time for me will be this April - when I return from my Snowbirding vacation in Florida - and get back in gear in my home in Buffalo NY.
I have decided that it's time for me to make the house
ready for SALE.
That means getting rid of, sorting of, dreading of, dealing with
- the "STUFF".
I did however find some helpful information online -
and websites that will "help" me
>> insert pause here << while I print these pages out and file on top of the Pile
of STUFF right next to me
Find:
100 Reasons to Get Rid of It
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/100-reasons-to-get-rid-of-it
here's the complete article to print out
http://tinyurl.com/atunmz
First Published: March/April 2007
Copyright 2008 Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. All rights reserved.
If quitters never win, and winners never quit, than who is the fool who said,
"Quit while you're ahead"?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wish me luck.
It certainly doesn't help much that I am a Procrastinator Extraordinaire!
“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."
Dawson Trotman
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