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State of the union
May. 26th, 2014 01:16 pmI have two closets in this room. I say this room since by the end of summer I will have a new room, somewhere. We still haven't even found a place to look at, let alone pin our hopes on, but I digress.
Anyway, one closet is a walk in and was turned into doll-world. (There are pictures, it's just I'm lazy and the computer is kind of needed for house hunting. You understand.) The other I kinda filled with boxes and basically instituted a "Do not enter" policy because after the first four months or so, I was really tired of boxes. I'd foolishly thought we would be staying here longer than we are, so I thought I'd be able to tackle it "later."
Later, of course, is now. I've spent the last two days feverishly trying to go through an entire closet full of boxes. Which is about as fun as it sounds. First you have to move around enough to get to anything of interest (which means this stuff you've moved you'll also have to come back to later) and then you have to figure out where to start. I'm currently in that really messy stage where my room looks awful but there's some method to my madness.
The plus side of moving in the last year is that the experience is still very fresh in my mind, so I've already got eight of the smaller boxes tossed aside, ready and waiting for either someone else to claim them or trash day. I've also got four boxes of things I really shouldn't have moved last time. So that's a start. I've got two more boxes I think I'll end up using elsewhere (so they're empty now) and a couple that are half started and either going to be combined or finished off with the contents of the closet.
The difficult thing is that I'm one of those people who will hold onto crap well past the time I should let it go. However, once I've decided it's time for it to go, I want it gone NOW. So yesterday I made a mess and today I made a noticeable dent.
Thing is, I'm tired of looking at boxes. I want to go swimming and enjoy a holiday for once.
So that's my plan. Hopefully the pool will be clear of people for awhile soon so I can get my swim before resuming the great clean out.
Anyway, one closet is a walk in and was turned into doll-world. (There are pictures, it's just I'm lazy and the computer is kind of needed for house hunting. You understand.) The other I kinda filled with boxes and basically instituted a "Do not enter" policy because after the first four months or so, I was really tired of boxes. I'd foolishly thought we would be staying here longer than we are, so I thought I'd be able to tackle it "later."
Later, of course, is now. I've spent the last two days feverishly trying to go through an entire closet full of boxes. Which is about as fun as it sounds. First you have to move around enough to get to anything of interest (which means this stuff you've moved you'll also have to come back to later) and then you have to figure out where to start. I'm currently in that really messy stage where my room looks awful but there's some method to my madness.
The plus side of moving in the last year is that the experience is still very fresh in my mind, so I've already got eight of the smaller boxes tossed aside, ready and waiting for either someone else to claim them or trash day. I've also got four boxes of things I really shouldn't have moved last time. So that's a start. I've got two more boxes I think I'll end up using elsewhere (so they're empty now) and a couple that are half started and either going to be combined or finished off with the contents of the closet.
The difficult thing is that I'm one of those people who will hold onto crap well past the time I should let it go. However, once I've decided it's time for it to go, I want it gone NOW. So yesterday I made a mess and today I made a noticeable dent.
Thing is, I'm tired of looking at boxes. I want to go swimming and enjoy a holiday for once.
So that's my plan. Hopefully the pool will be clear of people for awhile soon so I can get my swim before resuming the great clean out.