Showing posts with label hoarding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hoarding. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
New Achievements Of The Weekend
I must have watched at least 4 episodes of Hoarders: Buried Alive this weekend... whheeww! All in the name of research, right? My paper outline is due this Thursday.
It did inspire me too to do more than one drawer decluttering. Here are the before and after pics. Oh, and these, nothing went back in them this time (or misteriously appeared in my bathroom). That's progress I say!
Saturday, March 5, 2011
First Step Into Freedom !
It wasn't hard at all, even on a Friday evening post-working week tired!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Diminishing, Decluttering, Minimizing...
I'm not a hoarder.....
There is a big BUT here, though.
I have way way too much 'stuff'. Stuff which at times - lots of times and an increasingly growing amount of times - suffocate me. Stuff of all kinds... Clothes, Shoes, Books, Art Supplies, This, That.... A lot of it, JUNK. Emotional junk, art junk, junk junk junk. Lots of nice stuff too. Or that I perceive to be nice. But the truth is, it is weighing on me. And it's just too heavy.
I have been reading a lot about hoarding and hoarding behaviors for a paper I have to write for school and present at the end of the semester. As a consequence, I have also come across numerous blogs and websites on the subject of minimalism.
I have no plans to become a radical minimalist, but I've been thinking lately of how nice it would be if I could 'simplify'. Simplify my wardrobe, my drawers, my pockets... I am so so tired of the clutter. So tired of picking up and putting away (in crammed places).
So I will. I will use this oh so abandoned blog (because I just spend too much time and am so busy sorting and putting all the STUFF away) to jot some notes about the process of minimizing, simplifying and decluttering my life and my surroundings.
I don't even know WHERE to start! I will find a place. Or a drawer. Or something.
Good luck to me :-)
There is a big BUT here, though.
I have way way too much 'stuff'. Stuff which at times - lots of times and an increasingly growing amount of times - suffocate me. Stuff of all kinds... Clothes, Shoes, Books, Art Supplies, This, That.... A lot of it, JUNK. Emotional junk, art junk, junk junk junk. Lots of nice stuff too. Or that I perceive to be nice. But the truth is, it is weighing on me. And it's just too heavy.
I have been reading a lot about hoarding and hoarding behaviors for a paper I have to write for school and present at the end of the semester. As a consequence, I have also come across numerous blogs and websites on the subject of minimalism.
I have no plans to become a radical minimalist, but I've been thinking lately of how nice it would be if I could 'simplify'. Simplify my wardrobe, my drawers, my pockets... I am so so tired of the clutter. So tired of picking up and putting away (in crammed places).
So I will. I will use this oh so abandoned blog (because I just spend too much time and am so busy sorting and putting all the STUFF away) to jot some notes about the process of minimizing, simplifying and decluttering my life and my surroundings.
I don't even know WHERE to start! I will find a place. Or a drawer. Or something.
Good luck to me :-)
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