We've been trapped in our house far too long. Summer temps of 100+ have forced me to look at every spot in my house and realize that we have fallen in to the trap - everything is bigger in Texas - which includes clutter piles and junk. As the home size increases, so does the area available to leave things sitting, stacking and stuffing. I love our key possessions but have little need for all the crap. I want to gut it all. I've been through this so many times with little success, yet today, this time, I am even more determined. This becomes a little harder when one lives in Dallas, the land of show and "stuff". Rather than "decorate", I want to make the foundation more pleasant to look at there by eliminating the desire to beautify with junk. The name of the game here is to find the biggest for the least amount of money. I hope to spend the least amount of money to have the smallest need to buy things in the first place. Oh the challenge. I fall in to all the traps, including the two biggies: "But I paid a fortune for that"and "I might need/want/use/wear it one day". I even do it with the kids stuff. I should have learned my lesson from three years ago when we moved boxes down here from Canada that had already been sitting in storage for two years, only to return them to storage here.
A simple way to start, as I read on one of the many blogs I was scanning, is to place maybe items in a box and stash them to see if you ever go looking. I so desperately want to be organized. Baby steps, as Fly Lady says. Baby steps.
Today. The first day of the rest of my life. Remove. Toss. Minimize. Wish me luck.
