Damn it! I swore I wasn't going to make a resolution in honor of the new year. I think they're stupid and pointless. It's rare that someone sticks with theirs.
Still, without me even trying, I have stepped right into the pit of a resolution.
I am going to be more organized.
My mother is the type of person who has everything organized. She has covers on the couches. If there's even a speck of dirt on the floor, it gives her heart palpitations. My father is a pack rat. He keeps anything and everything. I know you're supposed to inherit 1/2 your chromosomes from each parent. It would appear I am a biological anomaly. It seems that I got all of mine from my father.
When I stayed with my brother, I found his pantry to be startling. Everything is in order, stacked nice and neatly with all the labels facing out. You would think it was a sign of a disturbed mind, but it's not. Whereas my mother's absolute need for cleanliness sometimes makes it difficult to function (no, I'm not being sarcastic), my brother is a brilliant well adjusted person with lots of friends. How is it that he got such a wonderful balance? I want that.
Since I was not born with the neatness gene, I need to over-compensate. I have got to find some way to make up for my failings. I started following Kamrin's lead by simplifying, but that has come to a halt. We did get rid of some clutter, but there's much more to do. It has gotten worse since Chanukah.
Today, we took the first step. We reorganized our bedroom and we're going to move a piece of furniture out of the office and into our room. Once we do that, it should be an avalanche of organization. That will give us room to add book cases wherein we can store lots of the school clutter plus I can take my craft supplies and photographs out of the giant plastic boxes which take up far too much room, sort them into smaller boxes and put them on the shelves.
We've been stuck in a holding pattern. We can't clear out one room because first we need to do something with another room, but we can't start that room because it has things that need to go somewhere else.
Here's hoping that we don't lose momentum and that we wind up with a straightened relatively clutter-free home in the not-too distant future.
ETA: I'm going to try to commit to this monthly checklist. I can do one thing a day.
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I hear you on both accounts 1. i hate resolutions 2. I need to be less of a pack rat and more organized. Sometimes I think my living room is the abyss of all things lost in this house.
We are moving 2 doors down this month so that should help de-clutter some stuff. My husband HATES throwing stuff away, so this should be interesting.
If you know of a way to get a husband to part with magazines, let me know.
I am making three resolutions this year:
1. I resolve to be gentler to my children this year.
2. I resolve to craft/sew more.
3. I resolve to clean/declutter the pigpen, er, house.
I'm going to try to combine 2 and 3. Storage bins? Hanging organizers? Oh yes!
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