Life

[Marilyn]

Sounds like we're all to some extent in the same boat.

Janet, only thing is I'm not off work enough to do this every spring, so we have to whittle away at it on the weekends and just commit to making forward progress over the next few months.

Diana, my hubby gets into my boxes before I'm even in the room, and starts tossing things. The only thing he does understand and let me do is rummage through his discard pile and pull out things I just can't part with. He accuses me of being a packrat, but you should see his stuff, he keeps things that I would toss, too.

Gina, we've been living here almost 6 years, and last weekend when the big shelves fell and we had to go through a bunch of stuff, there were still 3 moving boxes in the garage unopened from our last move. You'd think the stuff could all be chunked, but we found pictures of our girls when they were little, and other special things. Organization experts will say that if you don't touch it in a year, you don't need it. That's crazy, there are lots of things you don't touch in a year, and do we really need our children's baby pictures and other special things, not to survive, maybe, but, yes we do need them!!!

[Janet]

I feel that way too Marilyn, about the baby pictures. They mean more to me than any object in the house.

[judy]

It is a lot of work, but decluttering can change your life a bit. I think when you have things under control at home and not cluttered, the rest of your environments start to become less cluttered.