Urge to purge
Apr. 8th, 2009 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Spent four hours with the pro. organizer today. Yes, I know how to clean my own shit up, I just don't do it unless there's someone here keeping me on task. I don't have to like reality, but I get more done when I admit it is reality.
Anyway, of the 22 or so boxes I had in my office, half are gone. Most into one of three (18x18x18) boxes marked "trash," "recycling," and "shred." (The "recycling" one is too heavy for me to lift safely.) A few have been re-boxed into four (smaller) plastic bins to be stored in the garage for whenever I have the desire and fortitude to deal with them. And I have one file-sized box of stuff I need to do something with - mostly put into files, I think.
She comes back for three hours next week, hopefully we can dispatch the remaining boxes then.
In those eleven-ish boxes, I found only a handful of surprises and only two items I've considered "lost somewhere in this house." One was Lessons in Taxidermy, which I just bought a second copy of last week, so now I have one to loan out if you're interested, and the other was the new Nordstrom card I received last June and never took off the letter and put into my wallet. Now I can do that. (Just did!)
I'm tired, and I think once I'm rested I'll be happy about this, but while it's great progress it's not actually what my goal for the day was, which was to get some of the immediate projects that need to be addressed organized. I think I can do that on my own tomorrow, though. Except I've got to figure out when to do Maggie's Easter basket. Darn holidays.
Anyway, of the 22 or so boxes I had in my office, half are gone. Most into one of three (18x18x18) boxes marked "trash," "recycling," and "shred." (The "recycling" one is too heavy for me to lift safely.) A few have been re-boxed into four (smaller) plastic bins to be stored in the garage for whenever I have the desire and fortitude to deal with them. And I have one file-sized box of stuff I need to do something with - mostly put into files, I think.
She comes back for three hours next week, hopefully we can dispatch the remaining boxes then.
In those eleven-ish boxes, I found only a handful of surprises and only two items I've considered "lost somewhere in this house." One was Lessons in Taxidermy, which I just bought a second copy of last week, so now I have one to loan out if you're interested, and the other was the new Nordstrom card I received last June and never took off the letter and put into my wallet. Now I can do that. (Just did!)
I'm tired, and I think once I'm rested I'll be happy about this, but while it's great progress it's not actually what my goal for the day was, which was to get some of the immediate projects that need to be addressed organized. I think I can do that on my own tomorrow, though. Except I've got to figure out when to do Maggie's Easter basket. Darn holidays.
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Date: 2009-04-08 11:17 pm (UTC)pretty and easy, i used fake eggs from michaels.
i got a pro to help me in the terminal stages of the aged parent's apartment, and i think i'll do it for me too.
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Date: 2009-04-08 11:45 pm (UTC)Organizers are much like therapists. If you've found one you can work well with, they're totally worth it, IMO.
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Date: 2009-04-09 12:04 am (UTC)Maybe I should borrow your copy of Lessons. Both of mine are long loaned out to ? I have both softback and hardback in Swedish, however.
Easter. Oh shit.
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Date: 2009-04-09 04:44 am (UTC)I'm thinking of commissioning a work, if you're game. Our dentist took a marvelous photo of Maggie a couple of years ago which I was looking forward to bringing home. Yesterday I found out they'd got rid of it. But it would make a good drawing, too, and I think you could do a nice job of it.