I'm an Organizing Junkie

In our house we have a saying. Every so often I yell “walk-about” and the kids know that this means time to take a walk-about and pick up items around the house that are “out of place”. It could be a stray sock, books, toys, hair elastics, anything. The items get collected and put back into their proper home. Its…
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So soon I will be having a garage sale….the ultimate purge……as I’ve been organizing the house I slowly move things to get rid of to the storage room in my basement. I do it ever so slowly so know one ever knows something is missing. I’m getting pretty good at it I must say although if I had my way…
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In my world if I open a cupboard and something falls out on top of me, I don’t get frustrated as some might. My heart races, time stops….everything else ceases to matter…what matters is that I know in that moment that my habit will be fed. I must feed it…now…not later. At once the entire cupboard gets emptied and I…
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So I had a friend over today and she was surprised that my home despite being organized still had that lived in feeling and that got me to thinking. What is my goal when organizing my home? Its not what you might think. So I thought I’d clarify. I know I said “a place for everything and everything in its…
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