Organizing Wednesday!
After bemoaning my lack of progress last week, I was determined to accomplish something this week.
I have a desk drawer/junk drawer that had become a catch all for all sorts of miscellaneous items. I finally cleared it out and put it in some order. Enough so that I can look in it and find the stapler and the scotch tape.
Something I have found to be both fascinating and disturbing is all the beads we have. I have two daughters and my older one was quite craft minded. Now it seems that everytime I clean out a drawer or a storage container I find beads.
Last summer I finally got smart and designated a storage box to the bead finds. Now when I find beads in a drawer, I put them in a sandwich bag and into the storage box they go.
It’s funny how it’s not the big things that cause the most clutter in our house. We don’t have a pile of chairs sitting in the living room or a shelf full of beds in the bedroom. It’s the small things that accumulate. The beads, the safety pins, the thumbtacks, the buttons, and so on. Someone with a lot more intestinal fortitude than I might just throw these things away. I can’t quite get there yet so I just gather them all together in one place. The good thing is I will never have to buy another safety pin or thumbtack for the rest of my life.
If you are under forty you can skip the next section.
My other big accomplishment for the week was finally clearing out the tampons in my bathroom cabinet. Early next month will mark the end of that phase of my life i.e. I am officially in menopause! Okay, I kept four of them – just in case – but the rest are gone and my bathroom cabinet is a little less cluttered. Now, my question is what can I do with the tampons. Does anyone take tampons that are wrapped but not boxed? Would my daughter want them? Do I suck it up and throw them out? It is back to my Organizer’s Guilt!
Oh well!
Sandra