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Back to work tomorrow, maybe for the whole week, I don't know for sure. Things get crossed off our "to do" list one by one, and new items get added. But we accomplish things every day.
We helped someone move yesterday. She'd been in this house for fifty-some years. After the first twenty years, the house was too full of stuff, so they rented an apartment next door for storage and office space. That too, was filled with stuff. Last year, her husband died, and she moved to a condo. The completely full apartment needed to be empty by this weekend, so people came and helped move stuff back to the house next door, or take things for charity, or to the dump. I understand that the house is sold, but doesn't need to be empty for several more months. It may take that long to sort through the rest of the stuff still in the house. Plenty of hands made short work of the moving, however, and pizza was enjoyed by all!
By the end, everyone was talking about clutter and saving things, and how it effects their living space. I'm a total hard-nose about clutter, and I probably need to have more compassion for people who aren't like me. I know a number of very good people whose homes are packed to the rafters with stuff. I am not better than a person who cannot throw things away, I'm just different. I do, however, believe that throwing things away is better than not. Saving something for years because you "might" need it someday, isn't the way I'm willing to live. I've moved so many times, and I've always lived in small spaces, purging is just easy for me, and it takes seeing how other people live to realize that I'm not in the majority.
We helped someone move yesterday. She'd been in this house for fifty-some years. After the first twenty years, the house was too full of stuff, so they rented an apartment next door for storage and office space. That too, was filled with stuff. Last year, her husband died, and she moved to a condo. The completely full apartment needed to be empty by this weekend, so people came and helped move stuff back to the house next door, or take things for charity, or to the dump. I understand that the house is sold, but doesn't need to be empty for several more months. It may take that long to sort through the rest of the stuff still in the house. Plenty of hands made short work of the moving, however, and pizza was enjoyed by all!
By the end, everyone was talking about clutter and saving things, and how it effects their living space. I'm a total hard-nose about clutter, and I probably need to have more compassion for people who aren't like me. I know a number of very good people whose homes are packed to the rafters with stuff. I am not better than a person who cannot throw things away, I'm just different. I do, however, believe that throwing things away is better than not. Saving something for years because you "might" need it someday, isn't the way I'm willing to live. I've moved so many times, and I've always lived in small spaces, purging is just easy for me, and it takes seeing how other people live to realize that I'm not in the majority.
