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Feb. 28th, 2009 01:00 pm
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In my zeal to do something every day (Well, almost every day!), I've done a modest load of laundry (items I found while I was busy in my room)---including my cranberry chenille sweater and the taupe pants I've been searching for for months. It's all in the dryer now---and while I was waiting for the spin cycle to finish, I cleared off the top of my dryer and dusted it.

It was long overdue, and I was rewarded by excavating three pairs of panties, my turquoise knit dress, and a plaid top I'm going to wear to work today, because anything goes on Saturday. The rest of the week, I usually wear skirts or dresses, but today it's gonna be denim capris, my rediscovered blue plaid top, and probably my generic-Sketcher-type flats.

Added more stuff to the outgoing boxes---one truly dreadful sweater in particular!---at the moment, I'm on the fourth box of clothes and I'd like to make it up to five or six. I really need to get it all organized. I have a squillion solid knit tops in assorted solid colors, I really ought to get them all in one place and root out the ones that are over the hill. There are a few items that I KNOW I ought to rid myself of---the Clinton and Stacy voices in my head are not kind---but while I may part with the polo shirt that makes me feel like an extra on The Sopranos, I'm still not ready to let go of my Pineapple Connection shirt with the dragon on the back. Hmph, maybe I'll wear that today instead....

Also found out that, as puffy as my ankles are at the moment, they have been much worse---I tried on a little beaded ankle bracelet that I removed a year or so ago because it was SNUG, and was delighted to find that there's currently several fingers worth of wiggle room. Go, me!

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Date: 2009-02-28 09:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jdsgirlbev.livejournal.com
Hey...can you send some of that energy and determination my way? I seriously need to get my roomie Catherine, and Andrew, her son, (not blood, but still family, and I love 'em) to throw stuff OUT. At almost 15 Andrew doesn't play with things in the tub anymore...so rubber duckies and that ilk should be tossed. Cath is holding onto dresses her MOTHER wouldn't wear because they're too "old and fuddy duddy" (and her mom is a minister) But can I convince them to just let GO? NOOOO!! *headdesk*

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Date: 2009-03-01 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Family don't end with blood! (Ooops, channeling Bobby there....)

I've still got tons of crap to go through, and that might just be literal, I've probably got a couple tons of books alone! And 'zines, and bales of paper clutter and boxes of who-knows-what...at this point, I've got a few oasis in a desert of junk. I'm getting to where I'm less overwhelmed, but that's mostly through telling myself that it WAS worse and can only get better from here.

I don't know what your roomie's clutter issues are---sentiment? Fear of poverty? Feeling overwhelmed? Sloth? All of the above? I can relate? Can you get her to pack some away and chuck it if she doesn't need it in six months? I'm trying to be realistic about how much I love things versus how much use I get out of them (and at this point, whether I can get money for them).

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Date: 2009-03-01 07:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jdsgirlbev.livejournal.com
Cath's isues, and Andrew's too, I think come partly from sentimentality, partly from "If I throw it out, I'm going to need it in a month!" and partly from being overwhelmed. I had the same basic issues, until I had to try and fit three housefulls of STUFF into one house...that already had MY stuff in it! I got over the sentimentality FAST! Plus, a friend started to help one day, and I kind of drew on that energy until it somehow just got done.

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Date: 2009-03-01 03:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
I was hoping for a little more help from my friends than I actually got, but it did help kick things off. My problem is, I've lived in the same house since 1974, I inherited my parents' possessions, my late brother sent down a boatload of stuff when he thought he was going to move down, and I'm a packrat myself. It's the trifecta of clutter!

I'm at the point where the walls are closing in, I'm mentally exhausted by all the junk and I'm just plain tired of living this way. I have a vision of how I want my surroundings to be, and this ain't it.

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Date: 2009-03-01 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jdsgirlbev.livejournal.com
I'm at the point where the walls are closing in, I'm mentally exhausted by all the junk and I'm just plain tired of living this way.

Oh. I hear THAT.

Being in the wheelchair doesn't help either. I'm not physically able to do some of the stuff that just plain needs to be done.

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Date: 2009-02-28 09:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com
Yah! for keeping the momentum going! Bit by bit, you're going to reclaim your house. *\0/* (that's my cheerleader emoticon)

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Date: 2009-03-01 06:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Woohoo, with pompoms, no less! *feels encouraged*

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Date: 2009-03-01 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cbtreks.livejournal.com
Have I mentioned how impressed I am with your ongoing cleanup? Our little apartment doesn't look too bad but it needs some work and each weekend I figure if I just clean all day Saturday - or even part of Saturday - I'd get it done in a couple of weeks and what's left would be maintenance. Do you think I manage to get off my butt and do anything but read or go to a movie on the weekend? No. So my hat's off to you! (It's about to turn into a bigger issue - we're getting our stuff out of storage in Las Vegas soon - but that's a whole entry in my own lj!)

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