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What Shall I Wear Today? Summer Dresses.
I’m so guilty. When we moved from Wisconsin to Utah, I had to part with so much that was taken to the local dump. When the guy at the dump had a heart attack, we wondered if his heart was stressed by all the stuff we unloaded there. Yes, you’ve busted me and I promise to un-hoard my stuff – – um, someday!
Oh dear Neva! Poor man! Sounds like you had a jolly good clear out when you left Wisconsin 🙂 There’s nothing like a move to clear the decks a bit, but the lovely clutter soon creeps up on me again! Ha Ha, hope the un-hoarding begins – er one day!
What a hilarious beginning to a blog with some extremely useful tips! I really love the idea of photographing kid’s work and art and storing it digitally. I’ve not heard that one before. I just went through and sorted my linen closet last week and was amazed at how many odds and ends there were and how I had three double bed sized sheets and guess what? Not one double bed! Anyhow, I took everything down to a local animal shelter and they need that stuff in the cold weather so it was a win/win for everyone. You write in exactly the style I love to read – – do you have a book out with a collection of all this?
Hi Stephanie, and welcome to this little corner of the blogosphere! So glad to meet you and also that you relate to this post! I’m so glad that your local animal shelter benefited from some of the linen you don’t use anymore – what a good idea – that’s another option to Salvos and charity shops. Thanks for the tip 🙂 I am so chuffed that you enjoy the style of this blog – no I don’t have a book out, but one is in the making. Please pop back often, won’t you?
I’m so guilty, guilty of being a hoarder. I’m exactly the same, I get sentimental about gifts that people give me and can’t set them free once they have served their purpose. I was just nodding my head at your conversation with your husband, because we have the same conversations about my wanting to hold onto stuff. I am going to try and heed your very good advice and de-clutter. I’ve really got too much crap!
I think there are a lot of us at this age particularly that have over the years become hoarders Kathy, and I’m glad you can relate! Yes, it’s the sentimental stuff that gets me too. Good luck with the de-cluttering! Let us know what goes first!!
He He Jill! I can picture those sort of scenarios exactly. Moving doesn’t actually help me at all 😉 I do love mementos and things … but they also take up head space don’t they! Good luck with your next ‘cull’ Jill, I’ll be thinking of you 🙂
Oh Jo I never thought of you as a hoarder – after all those international moves I thought that hoarding wasn’t anywhere on you radar! Me – I am a hopeless hoarder. My aunt told me years ago – “you can’t do anything about it Jill, all our family are hoarders”. So I thought, it’s in the genes, I can’t do anything about it, so it’s to hoard. Probably wrong! When we packed up my in-laws home/shed – my goodness! the stuff that hadn’t seen the light of day for years! I came home and thought why do we buy stuff, hoard all this stuff, why? The kids won’t want it – they are probably hoarding their own stuff! I resolved to go through and have a huge clean up. Sorry poor eldest son and his wife….one day you are going to have the huge job of sifting through all my treasures.
Great post Jo – I can relate – and no I have no tips. Other than move house, and chuck out as you go, but that doesn’t have seemed to have worked for you!