I've been driving around during the day for the past three days due to snow days off school; amazing how everyone can get to the mall, but not to school, isn't it? Enough on that topic.
What I have noticed as I've been eyeing the Christmas decorations on homes is sun porches and garages with windows. There are boxes stacked to the ceiling! Rather than parking cars in the garage or sitting out on the screened porch sipping lemonade (in the summer), these families have built-in storage units! My thoughts plagued me: "What could they possibly need that is out in the cold?" "That is oppressive to have an entire section of your dwelling unusable because of STUFF!" On the Clean House show the other day, one family had two off-site storage units they were paying $450 a month on. Maybe these people with boxes littering their screened porches feel they're getting a bargain.
Let's get personal here. Do we have a room in our homes that is unusable or at least that we won't let company enter, because it is full of stuff? Make it your goal to free up that space for living, not for storage.
3 organizing containers went to the office at work as they were empty at my house and needed at the office. I also got rid of one other item. I don't know if I'm going to have the time to get to my 1,000 item s gone goal! I'm at 959. We'll see!
ReplyDeleteGo, Julie, go! You can get rid of 41 items in 12 days. Let's see, that's 3 or 4 items per day. Easy!!
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