Feeling pretty well back to normal (still stuffy and blowing) today so I started on kitchen counters. Getting some Christmas stuff together and putting away. (candles-cups) Putting honey all together to take to sale, filling the sugar and flour canisters so throwing sacks away, also throwing out old plastic straws to cups, plastic silverware from take out meals gathering for Ryan to take to work. Several plastic lids laying around so have them put into sack for church. Was saving the Pringle cans for an ideal I had but just kept lids and threw containers away. Will just get more if I do it.
Lana, I opened my ziplock and plastic ware drawer this week too...and for no reason, just grabbed all those misc utensils we'd picked up again the past year and in the trash they went. It's was a great feeling to have no 2nd thought and just do it.
But, I came in this thread to share a good feeling I had today. We are getting new floors on the main floor of our house. What that means is I've had to pack up EVERYTHING for the most part, other than the furniture or dressers with the drawers. I don't want knickknacks falling off the walls from hammering or anything like that, so I was just safe and packed it all. I thought as I did this I'd find even more stuff to purge, but you know what, I maybe picked a handful of stuff....5 or 10 things that I thought "okay, I'll go ahead and get rid of this". I've worked so hard the past several years working through what I call my Spring Holiday Grand Plan, that I feel like I'm in a good place in my main living area. I have thought that maybe when I go to put it all back, maybe I'll like the bareness of things even more...like my closet...and decide then I'll toss something else, but we'll see.
On a Christmas note, one of the things I also decided to do was get rid of ALL the card cases for my Christmas CD collection and it's BIG. I've had them in one of those big zip up folders for YEARS, so why keep the plastic, just to keep it.
The more I think about this, the more I have to share. I have big news about my brother and HIS stuff. So my adult brother lives here and I've had to move his stuff so many times over the past 13 years, that mentally I'm drained from it and it causes a lot of issues sometimes. He's disabled, so basically what has to be done, I do. When we packed up his house 13 years ago, he filled 6 or 7 HUGE boxes full of DVD's. It was a collection he just wasn't willing to part with. Well, those DVD's have sat in those boxes this whole time. I've moved them to the storage shed, I've moved them around in the storage shed, I've moved them to the new shed we built for his stuff in the back of our house and he STILL wouldn't get rid of them. I've tried so many ideas to get him to part with them and he just wouldn't. Well he FINALLY told me Thursday HE DOES NOT CARE WHAT I DO WITH THEM. He says he got what he wanted when we moved them from the storage shed and kinda blamed it on my husband for them being brought here the last time. I know it's a coping mechanism, so I didn't push back and just said THANK YOU. Then yesterday, he also had me fill the back of my trunk with rocks and crystals that were his mothers and that I've also had to tote around for 13 years. There were also 3 boxes of rocks and crystals he got scammed on tik tok into buying too. They would just randomly show up at our house and "he didn't know how it happened". The best news ever, is that they FINALLY all went to the bead and rock store to be sold on consignment. Now, he's worked at this bead store for 10 years and they've never made it there before, so when he told me they were going this week I didn't believe him. But yesterday he said load them up, I did and they are GONE. You guys...i know it sounds crazy, but when you've done as much as I have and had this inner turmoil, the relief of him making those 2 decisions feels like it's lifted 1000 pounds off my shoulders. To know I don't have to touch those items again, is such a relief to my soul.
