After a weekend mixed with relaxation and productivity, I have made some progress in being able to see more floor space in the house. They were small steps, but I'll take each one! I spent most of Saturday early afternoon in the office, going through piles of stuff I had created while cleaning out each nook and cranny in the room. That is one of the downsides to taking on a project like this....chaos creates more chaos. And I have a tendency to leave that chaos sitting there for weeks. But, not this time. Getting the office in better shape was something that Michael wanted to do over the weekend, so that was good motivation for me!
I still had lots of Christmas left over in the office and it was time to finally put it away. Not so much in decoration, which there still was some, but in things I'd cleared off from other places and put in containers in the office....see that pattern? Got to work on that LOL All of Grandmother's angels were on top of the piano, so they got wrapped and packed away. And I made myself take each box out to the garage and put up on a shelf so that they wouldn't just sit there for weeks on end for me to walk by in the office. And my box of wrapping supplies and gift bags..they needed to leave the office finally as well...so they did.
I had amassed several good stacks of books. Three stacks to be exact: books to keep I haven't read, books I have read to keep and books I have read to get rid of. Thankfully the books to get rid of was the largest of the three stacks. Now, there were many good books in there but I knew, in my heart, that I would not read them again so it's time to let someone else enjoy them. I really enjoy reading biographies of celebrities from the Golden Age of Hollywood and have many that I've bought from the used bookstore. Even though I enjoyed them, I won't read most of them again so they had to go.
Even though I am definitely making progress in the office area, there's still a ways to go. I am quite intimidated by cleaning out the top of my closet in here. I think it's a mixture of the fact that there's so much stuff shoved up there and the time it's going to take to do it. This could possibly be an all day process of taking it all down, sorting it and putting it back...or not putting it back. I just know that I cannot do only half of it and leave it for another time. That would create a mess in here and defeat the purpose. Maybe this coming weekend I will tackle it. We shall see!
So, that's the update on my progress. Taking it one thing at a time. It makes me feel better once it's done so I know that I'm heading in the right direction. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
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