I’ve admitted before that I’m a slob. Some people have tried to excuse this for me, saying that I’m too busy ‘creating’ to bother with this. To this, I thank them for being kind, but say, HOGWASH. Every once in a while, my clutter and stashing bothers even me, and that’s when I finally do something.
I showed you the food side of the pantry that I finally cleaned up a few days ago. The trigger for this was that my husband needs to eat as sugar-free as possible, so we are getting rid of a lot of foods that neither of us should no longer eat, clearing the decks for a new emphasis on making condiments, sauces, etc., that are not filled to the brim with sugar. Due to the purging and reorganizing, I can now find things quickly and easily, concentrating on the MAKING, rather than the FINDING.
I hate to have to admit I’m such a slob, but with the glorious supplies side of our pantry, I have now stuffed and jammed as much as the shelves will hold – and more. I’m going to take a good, long look, get rid of a bunch of ‘stuff,’ and reorganize the rest some that we don’t have to climb into the shelves to get things, hoping nothing falls on us.
Even UNDER the shelves is jammed full.
All I can say is, “What a mess!” I’m determined to make sense out of this, though, and hope to be able to report significant progress by the end of the day.
Strength – don’t fail me now….
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Looking good – don’t weaken now!
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I made it through, and the pantry looks a whole lot better now. I made some good decisions on where to put things I use all the time, and it was obvious I needed to go through things and purge. I’ll put it on my calendar to do much the same thing in six months. At least I’m INTENDING to do better. Thanks for the encouragement. MUCH appreciated.
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I am currently drowning in junk, and all my good intentions have so far come to nothing. 😉
Nice to see someone who is making progress – you have inspired me and I have made some progress over the weekend.
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Oh, I’m so glad my efforts inspired you! Now that the pantry is in pretty good shape, I’m going to work in our master bathroom today. This may be worse than the pantry. I have two really full sets of shelves, plus full drawers, plus more-than-full jewelry holders. This will be a several day project, but the first thing is to get everything out of the drawers and off the shelves. Please send encouragement.
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You can do it! You’ve just proved that, and you’ve made me start on clearing my 30 year old hoard of miscellaneous junk. You are Superwoman.
Was that encouraging enough? Now breathe deeply and start…
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Yes! That was wonderfully encouraging. Many thanks. :0) I just finished the shelves in the master bath, throwing out a ton of ‘stuff.’ Tomorrow I’ll tackle the drawers and then do some much-needed cleaning. I’m not sure that motivating you to clear your ‘hoard’ of miscellaneous stuff would be a welcome thing, unless you’re happy to be working on it. It’s a lot of work, but “I” feel good getting rid of a bunch of stuff, finding things I didn’t know I had, and getting things clean – at least for a short time. I hope your results make you feel the same.
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Yes, I definitely feel better for clearing stuff out, particularly as “stuff” is a very polite term for some of the rubbish I’ve kept. 🙂
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I’m glad to hear that you’re feeling better as you go through your ‘stuff.’ I think the polite term applies equally to both of us. :0)
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