lhamo
10-21-12, 5:42am
I believe I have succumbed to the curse of too much storage space.
I did a major declutter of the kids rooms, today. Got rid of a humungous bag of clothes that are too small for them (they will get recycled by the building cleaning lady), another bag of shoes, set aside another smaller bag of practically new/barely worn clothes that friends might want, and have another set of school uniforms to offer to people. I have set aside some of the better quality/less worn stuff from DS to see if DH wants to hang onto it for DD (I thought that was better than just getting rid of it without consulting him -- he's away for work this weekend). I also got rid of some old stained pillowcases and sheets with holes in them.
But in spite of that progress I am still a bit annoyed with myself because while sorting through the linens I realized that in spite of the decluttering effort I still have 26 spare pillowcases! We have lots of pillows on our beds (at least 2 per person), but that still means I could change every pillowcase in the house three times without washing the old ones and STILL have extras. And that is even after getting rid of some. AAAGH! I was going to get rid of more, but as I was putting all the bedding back in the storage space we have for it (drawers under DD's bed) I realized there was plenty of space and we don't need it for anything else, so decided to just keep them. I won't have to but more pillowcases as long as I live, I guess.
I am actually terrified about filling up all the storage space we have in this apartment. When we moved in we had to make a second trip with the moving truck because all our stuff wouldn't fit in one truckload (part of that was poor loading skills on the part of the movers, but still. And that was with virtually no furniture of our own. After we got everything unpacked, we still had tons of empty storage. But it has gradually been filling up over the 3.5 years we have lived here. There is no way I want to move it all, especially not to another city or continent. MUST GET DH ON BOARD WITH DECLUTTERING! He is a serious packrat. The utility room is a disaster area partly because he insists on keeping nearly every box that comes into the house. Plus all the styrofoam packing material. The cupboards filled up long ago, now we have stacks of boxes. And a ton of crap from his office that he promised me over a year ago he would send back to them but still hasn't.
I know lots of people struggle with not enough storage space, but the opposite is almost as bad because you just aren't forced to deal with stuff piling up until there is so much of it its overwhelming.
At least I feel like I got something done this weekend. Also filed backstanding insurance claims and mileage requests for flights we didn't get credit for, and figured out what we owe the local hospital for treatment earlier in the year. Crossed a large proportion of the stuff I had put on my mind dump list earlier this week off -- nice feeling! But 26 pillow cases -- still trying to get my brain around that one....
lhamo
I did a major declutter of the kids rooms, today. Got rid of a humungous bag of clothes that are too small for them (they will get recycled by the building cleaning lady), another bag of shoes, set aside another smaller bag of practically new/barely worn clothes that friends might want, and have another set of school uniforms to offer to people. I have set aside some of the better quality/less worn stuff from DS to see if DH wants to hang onto it for DD (I thought that was better than just getting rid of it without consulting him -- he's away for work this weekend). I also got rid of some old stained pillowcases and sheets with holes in them.
But in spite of that progress I am still a bit annoyed with myself because while sorting through the linens I realized that in spite of the decluttering effort I still have 26 spare pillowcases! We have lots of pillows on our beds (at least 2 per person), but that still means I could change every pillowcase in the house three times without washing the old ones and STILL have extras. And that is even after getting rid of some. AAAGH! I was going to get rid of more, but as I was putting all the bedding back in the storage space we have for it (drawers under DD's bed) I realized there was plenty of space and we don't need it for anything else, so decided to just keep them. I won't have to but more pillowcases as long as I live, I guess.
I am actually terrified about filling up all the storage space we have in this apartment. When we moved in we had to make a second trip with the moving truck because all our stuff wouldn't fit in one truckload (part of that was poor loading skills on the part of the movers, but still. And that was with virtually no furniture of our own. After we got everything unpacked, we still had tons of empty storage. But it has gradually been filling up over the 3.5 years we have lived here. There is no way I want to move it all, especially not to another city or continent. MUST GET DH ON BOARD WITH DECLUTTERING! He is a serious packrat. The utility room is a disaster area partly because he insists on keeping nearly every box that comes into the house. Plus all the styrofoam packing material. The cupboards filled up long ago, now we have stacks of boxes. And a ton of crap from his office that he promised me over a year ago he would send back to them but still hasn't.
I know lots of people struggle with not enough storage space, but the opposite is almost as bad because you just aren't forced to deal with stuff piling up until there is so much of it its overwhelming.
At least I feel like I got something done this weekend. Also filed backstanding insurance claims and mileage requests for flights we didn't get credit for, and figured out what we owe the local hospital for treatment earlier in the year. Crossed a large proportion of the stuff I had put on my mind dump list earlier this week off -- nice feeling! But 26 pillow cases -- still trying to get my brain around that one....
lhamo