I have a few friends coming over tomorrow to work with me in my office/sewing room. In order to get there (it’s the bonus room over the garage), one has to walk through our bedroom and closet – in an area I commonly think of as a junk pile. It’s full of nooks and crannies where I feel compelled to stash stuff that has no apparent home.
So today, I was motivated to do something about that. Not so much to make a good impression, as out of necessity, since you have to be pretty skinny and able to leap small buildings in order to squeeze past the piles of crap.
I spent 30 minutes running all over the house putting things away. A pile of pants the boys got for Christmas that I’d never taken the time to have them try on, a box of supplies from the kids’ school’s silent auction we did in November, a stack of photographs that used to be tacked up on the dresser but have been sitting in the floor for months while I figured out what to do with them. You get the idea here.
Does everyone have a hallway or corner like this?
I’m amazed that I totally knocked it all out in 30 minutes. I’ve walked past that stash hundreds of times and grimaced, wishing I could pick it all up. And today I did.
I feel so, SO happy when I declutter. Something about free, clean space improves my posture and entire well-being.
So I’m glad Husband did the carpool/karate gig today. I had 2 hours to get things done around the house. The QUIET, lonely house.
It was heaven.
