January Appointments with Our Organizers, 2013

[blessedw2]

YAY!!! for our dear declutters.

[Nancy]

Blog post about setting up a get organized binder that I'm reading.
http://www.ourlittlecoop.com/2013/01/cr ... amily.html

[ellyphant]

decluttered one poinsettia that kept dropping leaves

one book and one plaque donated to thrift store

one pillowcase has now become rags

old tv picked up at curb

And so it continues, bit by bit.

[Harriet]

A big article in the regional paper, with photo, etc., about a woman with a big clutter problem, who decluttered 10 things a week for one year. All I could think was a question mark. If I'd (or anyone I've known with too much clutter) only decluttered 10 things a week, we would not only make zero progress, we would be hard-pressed not to be worse off at the end of the year, since new things would have had to come in. I don't get how it was a story at all. They mentioned several of the items, and they were the usual - small odd kitchen utensils, for instance. I marveled at how naive it was. It was as if neither the woman nor the writer really thought it out, or had any real experience making a change in a house, or had awareness of all the many books and programs, etc. about decluttering. Finding only one thing that could leave per day, and sometimes two ? To battle a big problem? If Peter Walsh read that article, he would be so puzzled!!!

Have decluttered in bathrooms and now moving on, with this week, to "office". Greatly needed!

Is anyone else in the office with me this week, or are you in other rooms.

I'll be interested to see her pages in the future, Nancy.

Wow, freeing up the space of a tv is a lot to do, ellyphant.

[BookSaver]

For a more realistic story of decluttering, last Saturday I discovered Nony and her blog:

http://www.aslobcomesclean.com/2011/12/decluttering/

(not sure which rabbit trail I followed to her)
Yes, I got sidetracked watching her videos, but I was depressed and they cheered me up. She took rooms that look like mine, and made them livable.

[Ivy]

Booksaver, Thanks for the link! I'll go look at the site more closely now that I've bookmarked it. It looks like a really gR8 one, too! Thanks!

[Harriet]

Enjoyed that rabbit trail, too, BookSaver.

Have done a Feng Shui "27 decision boogie" at my desk for office week. 27 items either flung, filed, or taken to the right place. Found the notes I took at Curriculum Night - something I'd just mentioned to dd that she'll need for next week. It's still an amazing maze of papers. On most of these, the decision has already been considered too hard to make at least once - that's how they ended up on my desk.

Maybe next I need an evacuation. Everything off the desk surfaces and onto a sorting surface while I clean the desk. Then a sorting attempt. It's a big "computer furniture" type desk with 2 drawers, and has a hutch with 5 cubbies and 2 cabinets, plus the hutch top is holding baskets and storage drawer sets. A person could get discouraged! I need to get the Bobby McFerrin song, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" playing while I work!

I know I'm a good Organizer, and worth every penny I pay me. I can do it!

[blessedw2]

cheering all of you as you gain space and peace as you declutter

[Nancy]

Trash day #2 prep. is done @ dd's dgson did that today.

[Harmony]

Pretty big declutter at my desk was done last week with some bits this week.

Big job in master bedroom underway. Does anybody else notice that clutter gets really dirty? Maybe it's our humidity down here, but stuff gets spots on it and needs wiped, to say nothing of all the dust. I have filled up the large kitchen trash can and the box is ready for G-W.

I know someone who works at G-W and his Mom told me they take any clothes with a spot or anything on them to a bulk place where they get sold by the pound and shipped overseas. I never have anything like that to donate. When a piece isn't 100% it goes in my work drawer and gets used until it's in tatters and covered with paint, or other stuff like that! If I could stay the same size, nothing would ever get donated here!