I used to joke with my parents that a family of five was living in their attic using all of the "stuff" that they kept up there. Well...what goes around comes around... I realized that I have also been fostering a family of five that has been able to live in our storage room. Not really...but you get the idea. I may have watched one too many shows about hoarders, but I was getting a little concerned about the amount of "stuff" that I was taking from our storage room in preparation for a yard sale next week. We have lived in this house for 9 years and there were things I hadn't seen since we moved in. I think that breaks the cardinal rule of cleaning and organizing... if you haven't used it in some amount of time, get rid of it... apparently in my case the rule is "if you haven't used it in 9 years, get rid of it". The crazy thing is, I am a neat freak - a constant organizer... but the storage room has become an abyss from which things are rarely seen again. This week, that ends. I am cleaning house - so to speak. The storage room is slowly being cleared of anything and everything that I can sell at the yard sale or give away. But more than that, I am going through the house too and getting rid of things that have outlived their usefulness. It's time for a fresh start. If it's not nailed down or breathing, I'm getting rid of it.
*Have nothing in your home that you don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. - William Morris*
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