Cleaning and Uncluttering

Honestly, I should be taking pictures of my progress with cleaning up and clearing out but I'm more than a little embarrassed that we have amassed this amount of...stuff. 'Cause that's what it is, just stuff. Odds and ends that we have stashed away in a closet or dark corner somewhere. Piles of boxes we have moved, moved and stacked up but never opened. We've been married 10 years and some of these boxes I have never even LOOKED in! I had no idea what it even was. 

So, I've been sorting things out. Keeping what we love, throwing away the obvious garbage and giving away what we can. And you know what? It feels so good. We are seriously thinking about putting our house up for sale this fall and I don't want to move all of this again. I don't want to pack this much stuff. I don't really want to take a whole houseful of things that I don't love to a new home so it can feel clogged up and cluttered too. 

I want my house, whether it be this one or the net one, to feel like a home. Warm, inviting and happy. That's hard to do when you have to move this stack of crap to get to that stack of crap and hope what you are looking for is in there. I'm by no means a minimalist, I require too much stuff to be one, but minimizing what you have to live better is a truly powerful act. 

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has saved too much, been to sentimental, who thought that the leather jacket you bought 4 kids and many pounds ago is still going to be cool when you finally fit back into it (not so much...lol). It has just felt so good to tackle something like this and to finally just let it all go....just let it all go. 

So, that's what I've been up to. Well, you know, besides being a teacher, mother, wife, stepmom, writer, crafter and overall busy lady. I still have a long way to go...but I'm closer to the peaceful, clutter free house that I want today than I was yesterday or the day before. It's withing my reach! Feel encouraged if you have something big you need to tackle and have been putting it off. When you decide today is finally THE DAY to start on your project, you will never look back and wish you hadn't. That's just my take on it anyway ;)

New recipe tomorrow!!