One of my resolutions is pretty boring, but a resolution nonetheless... I plan to do some major de-cluttering and organizing. I have way too much crap I need to either organize and use, or get rid of!
I love this GIF. Happy New Year, Roy!
I hope everyone has a great year in 2014!!
Roy
LOL...I'm having an enforced organize and get rid of week or three here with the move. I'm not the one with "stuff", but my pack rat hubs is finding he's accumulated much more than he thought possible. (Therefore we will have a dumpster delivered in the -15 degree weather now headed at us!)One of my resolutions is pretty boring, but a resolution nonetheless... I plan to do some major de-cluttering and organizing. I have way too much crap I need to either organize and use, or get rid of!
My other goal is to set aside more time to spend with my brother and sister. I keep in touch with them pretty well, but I want to get together and do more stuff with them.
I'm sure I have many more resolutions I will make, but that will keep me busy quite a bit!
I have two "tricks" to getting rid of stuff. One, which is really cruel to do because it just causes someone else to have too much stuff, is I first try to donate stuff to family. That way I sitll get to see it, if need be?, and helps them by not having to go out and buy something hopefully. The other thing I read in a organizing book one time is if you can't quite let go of something, but don't need or use it, take a picture of it. Amazingly, I've done this quite a bit and it helps just to go through the pics and say, oh yeah, I remember that thing. It serves dual purpose as a record for your taxes too if you're itemizing your deductions so you can show your donated items.
Thank you Debi! I love reading your posts! You're right about being happy about the little things. I remember hearing about some study that was done on happiness, and the people who were the happiest were those who were happy about all the little things in their lives. It makes sense since most of us don't experience great moments of happiness on a daily basis, so if we don't feel happy about the little things, we won't have much else to feel happy about.
Yes, I used to use the picture trick when we were helping to move someone into a long term care facility and their things had to "go." We often made scrap books for new residents. We have already donated the "good" stuff to a Christian charity here in town who give it to people in need. It's the 30 empty paint cans, extra tarps, piece meal lumber, broken "I might need it someday" items that the dumpster will be holding! Hubs has difficulty letting go of bent nails sometimes....lol. It's garage and barn territory and it's all his!
