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Finding "Happy Homes" for the items you no longer need and your extra stuff makes it easier to let go of them.

The link in this Better Homes & Garden article http://www.bhg.com/health-family/finances/how-to-get-rid-of-almost-anything/ has lots of places for you to consider. Need more ideas look on this website under header Residential and you will see even a larger selection.

The other day I had something happen that reminded me how we can be "visually blind' to our surroundings. My daughter asked me where the mini blender was, so I looked where I thought it was and didn’t see it, and then looked in several other cabinets I don’t use a lot. When I found it, it was in a cabinet I am in all the time and it was sitting right out front.

This same situation can happen with clutter. We get so used to seeing it we don’t see it.
I remember years ago when my children were growing up, one day I looked at a flower arrangement on a table – really looked at it.

When I wrote about my printer problems, I hinted that I went ahead and used the vacuum cleaner for the rest on my office. Well, in all honesty, I started but soon realized this was a big project. Because I leave my door open almost all summer, cleaning my office is more like cleaning a patio. I have to evict spiders and their extensive webs and get rid of the moth graveyards.  You get the picture. Well, today I tackled the project. Once I started, I wanted to run out and quit.
 
My office is one big room, 14x14, with a small loft area upstairs.

After a great week at the beach enjoying surf, sand and shrimp with family, I came home to computer problems. Talk about coming back to the real world with a reality jolt. Immediately having a speech to give and a class to teach just added to the pressure. A few other issues needed to be resolved such as office phone problems.  I realized, instead of plowing ahead, I needed to pull back and allow myself some recovery time.

 
Here is what helped. I stopped and got my house in order – everything from the trip put away. Then I did the same with my office.

Taking my own advice....

Yesterday when I tried to close the drawer which holds my plastic lids for storage containers, I realized I had to do something. Lids were trying their best to jump out, crawl out, or fall out the bottom; there were just too many pieces in the drawer.

Time to have a Lid Party!  So this morning I took all the lids out and put like ones together.  Taking all of them out at once would make me finish the project. Next, I emptied the drawer that was filled with all the bottoms and put like sizes together.