Facing Where I Am And It's Scary.

[Mim28]

Well I decided to get off the couch and try to do something. I am normally an organized person or so I thought. I opened my office door and just cried. It's not that it's a mess. It's like I am seeing for the first time in a long while how bad things have gotten. I sat down and cried and now I am just throwing things out. How did this happen? Has anyone else gone through something like this?

 

[hodge]

Oh, wow! No, I can't bear to throw things out! Even research from my old career. I put it in the basement, where, yeah, it might be getting moldy, but I did put it all in archive boxes and then plastic garbage bags.

 

[Mim28]

Oh, wow! No, I can't bear to throw things out! Even research from my old career. I put it in the basemen...

Yes I save everything but make sure it's usually organized. I just am looking at some of this stuff and asking myself why? Why did I feel this was so important? I've wasted my life organizing crap I didn't even need to hang on to. I want peace and happiness. This stuff isn't bringing it.

 

[Mim28]

Oh, wow! No, I can't bear to throw things out! Even research from my old career. I put it in the basemen...

It's good that you protected them. Basements can mold makers!

 

[hodge]

I know the feeling. That's why a few years ago I hauled all my research into the basement and also hauled tons of my books out to the loft in our garage. I didn't want it around me anymore. I can't read anymore, anyway. I did injure my sternum doing all that heavy carrying for days on end, though, and ended up in the ER one morning because of that. Not cool. But it was worth it to get all that stuff away from me. I just had to take a bunch of Advil for about a week and it healed.

 

[EveHarrington]

I moved 3 months ago. My closet is nice and organized------with my winter clothing. The rest of my bedroom looks like a bomb went off. I start to unpack and within an hour I get completely overwhelmed. Then I stop for oh, the next month. :-/

 

[hodge]

Yeah, I keep all of my poetry in a metal box and kept it in the basement for a few years. I finally went and investigated it and found a lot of mold, so I brought it back up to my studio.

 

[hodge]

Lol, Eve. Our bedrooms probably look pretty similar! My closets are perfect, but the rest of the room? Forget it. Hubby's bad about this, too. Luckily, haha. My dresser's okay. But we have a few chairs in there, which you would never know because they're covered with clothes.

 

[Gadgie]

I never realised just how many clothes I had until my sister came over from Holland, and cleared all my late wife's clothes out for me, as I just couldn't do that, I was still upset.

That was two years ago now, but I was totally amazed when I saw what was left, as it was all my clothes?

Seems daft keeping it all, as I never wear them any more, Im just a sluff really? I did however give my suits to the charity shop, as I will never be wearing them again, as I won't be getting married again! Lol.