I have an old pair of adult mittens. They weren’t mine to begin with, I think they belonged to my mom. They’re dark blue suede with fake lambswool on the edges and the cuffs and seams. My guess they’re from the 70’s or early 80’s. Somehow I ended up with these, and while I recall…
Slogan stolen from Tim Gunn of Project Runway. As I mentioned, my new kitchen is not ideal. One frustration was a lack of places to store my pots and pans. I had a cabinet over the wall oven where I could stack pots and pans, but getting out the one I needed was a sometimes…
That’s right, 33 contractor bags of garbage have gone out to the curb during our moving so far. More to come. 4 rooms nearly complete, and that’s including the attic and basement, the two worst areas of the house for cluttery crap. Way to go, us! Of course, this begs the question why the heck…
4 truckloads. That’s what the mover estimated it would take to move when she came through our house. 4 TRUCKLOADS?!?!?! nothing like having someone else with experience tell you objectively how much crap you own. The ruthlessness is not going as well as I’d hoped, because there is simply not enough time to be objective…
Life took me away from cleaning for a bit in order to prepare for the first in-person sales from our craft business. After a few days of rest and recuperation, I dove back into the craft room cleanup project. And I’m happy to say that it’s as done as it’s going to get for a…
When you’re decluttering a massive pile of stuff, you can come across things given to you by people no longer with you. Things bequeathed, given, or just things that can evoke a memory.
Big cleaning jobs take time. I have to remind myself it didn’t get this messy in a day, it won’t be cleaned in a day. Currently headed into finishing up week 2 on the craft room. Progress is made every day towards the goal. 4 totes full of fabric are removed and ready for donation.…
I’ve been working on the craft room for 1 week now, and I’m happy to report that I’ve made great strides. I’d go so far as to say I’m perhaps halfway done. The breakdown of what needed to be done (a.k.a. the project plan): gather fabric from around the room and move it out clean…
Hi, my name is marie, and I have a problem with having too much crap. Today I’m specifically pointing out my craft crap. I have several different hobbies, none of which I’m about to give up, and the stuff around them has simply overwhelmed my craft room…
Today I’m spending time at my desktop computer, reinstalling Windows 7 to see if I can get some speed back into it. This generally takes a long time, and mostly involves a lot of thumb-twiddling between steps. So, I decided to tackle a project in the office. Today’s project is “The Spaghetti Box”. The Spaghetti…