Not quite a horder - decluttering
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Oh goodness Blessings - I've always liked natural wood best. But your picture of the white room is pretty.
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It would look nice as natural wood, but might not be possible depending on how it was finished originally. We moved into a house with dark kitchen cabinets (and all avocado walls and ceiling). I was so happy when we started stripping and found the dark color was part of the varnish and we were able to get back to natural wood.
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Wren, I'm laughing about your dad. My dad was a home builder, and we're in the midwest where there is lots of hardwood used for everything. I'm pretty sure I could never have my dad to my house if I dared to paint the woodwork! LOL
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Why go to all that work? Put a couple of white or blue vases or picture frames in and/or on the bookcase, and a couple of wooden picture frames on your night table or dresser. If you're really getting into it, add a pillow or throw that is a gold or brown print or solid, maybe with white and/or blue in the pattern. Your beautiful piece of wooden furniture will integrate just fine.
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I vote white or whitewashed. I am stuck in a house with all older dark woods and I dream of white wood.
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Blessing - how nice you've drawn us all out of the woodwork - no pun intended.
I feel so guilty that I've fallen off the sorting & tossing track. Must at least do some serious tidying this weekend. My BFF who's husband died two weeks ago will be coming to town to stay a couple of days each of the next few weeks. The guest bed is covered with all the Christmas shopping.
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I am trying to convince my husband that we should move (reduce some debt) but there is no way I will ever convince him with the current condition of the house. So, I plan on spending this winter doing a slow purge. One room at a time.
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I have two rooms that have priority right now. Our bedroom and our spare bedroom. The spare is more like a storage room with a bed in it at this point! My son works here on the weekends (he is a caregiver for some of our kids who are disabled) and thats where he stays. I'm sure he would appreciate not being in the horde. LOL
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What do you gals do with all your BC papers? I want to have a burning man of all things pink and related to information on BC.
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My hospital has a patient portal where I can find all my tests and doctors' notes. I don't print anything. If I did, there'd just be one more messy, sloppy pile somewhere on, under, or around my desk.
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I was diagnosed two days after bringing home our newly adopted daughter. Her adoption documents got "dropped" somewhere in the house. I know I had them when I applied for her Social Security Number in June or so. Now if I could just isolate WHERE in the house those documents are. Surely they are in a pile, or a laundry basket or grocery bag full of papers that were shoved away quick when someone was coming to the house. So very frustrated with myself.
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I noticed, many, many years ago, when I move from an apartment to a house, that having more than one place to stash stuff was dangerous! Multiple junk drawers! Multiple places to shove a laundry basket or stack of papers! And, of course, I have no self discipline when it comes to organizaiton.
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Bankers boxes. The bane of my existence!!! And they're so cheap at Walmart!!!
Doing extensive organizing? Label the box "KAISER" and put all Kaiser-related papers in there.
Company coming over? Grab a box and sweep everything on the counter into the box. Label it "SORT"
Anyone want to take a guess as to how many "labeled" boxes I have vs how many are marked "SORT"????
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I was at my office, looking under the desk, and discovered one box piled on top of another. They've been there for a year, at least. Not sure what's in them, but I do remember I wanted paperwork out of sight. I guess I must have wanted it twice. I was tempted, of course, to see what was in there, but I was actually in the middle of some much needed organization, so of course, I spent my quota of organizational time. I guess those boxes will remain right where they are. If they haven't bothered me for a year, I guess there's nothing in them that can't just sit there. Now others might suggest a trip to the dump. I'll meditate on that.0 -
I threw out all my BC stuff except 1 huge sweatshirt from the fire dept in hot pink. I have not worn it but I kept it. I cleaned out most of my BC stuff saved on the favorites from my computer. I get my 3rd mammo next month and then the rest can go.
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Hi there,
I am new to this thread, but I love to read stories of decluttering. Last year while battling my second round of BC I began collecting a lot of stuff that I thought I could use for my DD's wedding in May. Well, as treatment went forward I realized that I was not going to be able to do the things I had planned. Much of my wedding stash was being stored in the guest bedroom. Well, after the wedding I came home unloaded the stuff and went on vacation for 3 moths. Then I came back to all that lavender stuff in the bedroom. I also had to go through 2 surgeries…more breast reconstruction and rotator cuff repair. I have had my dominate hand in a sling now for 7 weeks. ARGH….Now to the declutter. I decided to have all the downstairs carpet (bedrooms) cleaned this coming Saturday. So last Sunday with the help of my husband we began to tackle one bedroom each night. One car load has gone out to Goodwill and another load will be going tomorrow. It is so liberating to have STUFF leave. I hope to have the floors cleared by tomorrow night so that the carpet people can clean. But now I fell motivated to continue my clearing even further when the carpets are clean. I just want to get out of this brace/sling and do some other projects. But as of now I am proud of my effort
Happy Clearing!
Jenifer
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Jenifer - welcome. good for you!!
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Jenifer, you give me inspiration. My kids bedrooms have become a haven for clutter since they grew up and moved out. I have one kid coming back for Thanksgiving on Thursday and if you could do it in one evening, so can I. Today I will work on that bedroom and get it back in shape! Welcome!
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Good luck to you Mandy. I use to save stuff for yard sales, but I am too old to deal with that anymore. I look at something and think " I have spent more on a bad meal at a restaurant " …then I am able to LET IT GO. Holidays will be more enjoyable with less clutter! Best wishes
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You gals are awesome! I think my goal is to do one room a month. Sometimes I get so overwhelming. We bought binders to put the BC stuff, yet we have files all over the house. Last night my hubby said he is ready to start decluttering too. We had to move my Nana to assisted care and we realized how much stuff we had, because as you go through another person's possessions you think you don't want someone to have to dig through your piles of stuff.
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FDM, And I remember how little of her stuff I wanted. I'm sure my kids will be the same.
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