moving and downsizing is exhausting enough
But add a semi-annual release on top, and I’m ready to collapse. I’ve fallen behind on just about everything. I’m forgetting things. It isn’t good. But, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We are mostly moved in, just a few more pieces of IKEA furniture to assemble. We have longer-term projects
Mission Downsize: Day 19
Nineteen days sounds like a terribly long time, but I suppose with all the changes we’re making, it really isn’t that long at all. Only a week ago we signed the contract for the condo. In that time we’ve made three trips to IKEA, assembled a whole lot of furniture, painted the girls’ room, gotten
Mission Downsize: Day 13
Shouldn’t we done by now? I suppose I should give us at least a month to rid ourselves of the possessions gained over the last two decades, right? And why oh why does downsizing involve lots and lots trips to IKEA?? The garage sale emptied the garage enough to allow us to start clearing out
Mission Downsize: Day 11
Tomorrow is the day that we sign the contracts to buy our new condo. Things really are moving forward FAST! Downsizing is moving forward quite nicely. I’ve listed a bunch more on the downsize blog, and lots of things have been placed on hold, bought or taken. Our bedroom set and the porch furniture are
Mission Downsize: Day 8
Rob has been hard at work on the “business side”: checking the closing documents, wiring money, filling out HOA/condo paperwork, purchasing homeowner’s insurance. It’s all quite boring with no real tangible results, other than making it possible for us to move. The girls have finally come to an agreement on new bed linens for their
Mission Downsize: Day 5
And, so the mission continues. We haven’t moved along as fast as I had hoped we would, but we are moving forward. We all feel great about the downsizing. It is wonderful to feel the stuff moving out of the rooms. The girls are busy picking out new linens for their room so we can
Mission Downsize: Day 0
Downsize? What? As we’ve been slowly telling our friends, last weekend, while I was in Texas for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, we made an offer on a condo near the square in Decatur. After a couter-offer and some negotiation, I electronically signed (real estate has entered the 21st century!) the agreement to purchase
sorting – 11 sep 2011
As Chloe worked on putting together a Lego set last week, she grew frustrated with the unsorted legos. So she decided it was time to do something about our bulk boxes of Legos. I don’t know if this project will get completed, but I’m happy to have seen it start, at least!
One Step at a Time
As you probably know, I’m not a huge fan of clutter. One way to stop the clutter from becoming an issue is, of course, to make sure that there is a net outflow of crap from the house. I don’t buy plastic junkies for the girls. I discourage them from buying it for themselves —
Tomorrow is March already??
I’m not ready for it to be March already!! Where did February go, I wonder? I more inspired than ever to make this a great, energy building month. My goals continue to be to avoid junk food like chips and sweets and calorie drinks. I did fairly well on that in February, and I’m hoping
mixed up files
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, we’ve been spending time decluttering, organizing and simplifying. Years ago, when I had 10 CDs and 5 DVDs, I didn’t worry about putting things back in the right boxes. I had so few, it didn’t matter. I’d find the one I was looking for quickly enough. When
It’s the Blueberries, I’m Sure!
Uh oh. Having been home for two weeks straight, eating better (it’s the blueberries, gotta be the blueberries), and, perhaps, the arrival of a taste of spring have brought me loads of energy. I’m getting all my usual things done with lots of energy to spare. With this energy and time, I’ve been tackling all
CD Shuffle – 12 feb 2011
This week, the girls and I have worked on sorting through our ginormous CD collection. We’ve cleaned out the car and all the other nooks and crannies in which our CDs hide. We’ve decided on which CDs to keep and which to not keep. We’ve made piles of CDs that need to be ripped into
One Small Step
A bunch of my friends on Facebook have started to post simple thing they do each day that bring them an “incremental step” towards being who they really want to be. I’ve avoided this movement for a while, but, this weekend, decided it might fit well with my plans to find more energy. There are
Room of the Week
While writing yesterday’s post, it occurred to me that I have been planning to outline my de-cluttering strategy but haven’t done it yet. I have partially been held back by a garage full of “Goodwill” items, but as I tackled that pile yesterday, I’m feeling much better about the process! Executive summary: Completely empty the
Buy Nothng Day Thoughts (reposted from Dec 2008)
As I sat down to write my post about Black Friday, I remembered that I had written one in the past. And it exactly summarized what I was about to say. So, instead of reinventing the wheel, I’m simply reposting my Buy Nothing Day Thoughts post from 3 Dec 2008: On so-called Black Friday, I
What’s in Your Cart? – Sponges
As I went through the grocery store this week, picking up items on my shopping list, I realized that while I try to make good choices, I don’t always know what the best choice is. To inform myself to make more intentional choices, without totally overwhelming myself, I decided to try to tackle one item
De-Cluttering, It’s Not For the Faint of Heart
Hello, my name is Gwyneth. I’m clutter-phobic. If you’ve been to my house, you know. It’s true. Clutter drives me nuts. I can’t relax and be comfortable in my own house if there’s clutter. In your house, I’m perfectly at home if you offer me a glass of water or a cup of tea, no
So Many Ideas, So Little Time
I admit, I’m not the most creative person in the world. I like to believe that I have some inkling of my strengths, my weaknesses. So, when it comes to my Photo365 project, each year I improve on the number of days for which I post a photo, but my skill only very slowly, if
Multi-taskers R US
The other day I was working on a project for work and also chatting via IM with a coworker in France. She worried that she was keeping me form my work, but I reassured her that I was very steadily working through my tasks while working. Instead of the chat being a distraction, the chat
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