Whew!  It seems sometimes the more I try the worse it gets, I feel like I am being sucked in by STUFF everywhere in my house!  I have been battling this for a few months and I have a plan of attack  (I hope!)  I really need to go through every room in my house and just de-clutter and put stuff in boxes for a yard sale and do some deep cleaning and knowing that has just stopped me in my tracks. I also want to do some painting and decorating ….again I have a couple of rooms in mind and instead of motivating me and getting me going I just seem to get nowhere!

What I have decided to do is TRY to concentrate on one room at a time and just be brutal! (Which is hard for me because I am a saver……) I tend to add things instead of getting rid or something when I get something new…..this is not a good habit!  (I am not a hoarder or anything….nor do I have OCD……but I can agree I have too much stuff!)  To top it off I am a bit chronic at watching the HGTV channel and seeing those people decorate and organize and beautify is so fun….but it seems to have a paralyzing affect on me!…..sigh……

Part of what overwhelms me is not having the time to do what I’d like to do…..I have enough time to keep up with the laundry, the kitchen, the floors, the ironing..(barely!)  and such and when it comes to the creative cleaning and organizing…..I have been too busy putting out the fires that it doesn’t get done.

Well, I am happy to say yesterday I bought some material to re-cover the seats on my dining room chairs and to make some curtains for the back door…..(the dog has done a number on them as she freaks out every time I leave and has pulled them down……!) With this in mind I am going to start on my dining room and living room and work through the kitchen and then the bathroom etc etc…..and hopefully in a few weeks/months I will have some positive results!  My husband remains skeptical and I am sure once he reads this blog he will try and fix my dilemma and do his bit to help me get organized!  Bless him!  (Honey, just relax and let me try it my way, I will send up a white flag of surrender in defeat if I can’t do it! Then by all means…..HELP!)

The change of seasons sort of energizes me so I am trying to take advantage of that internal feeling and get started…..(which sometimes for me is the hardest part).  I will keep you posted on my progress or lack of it…..

If any of you have some encouragement you can send my way, some great organizing tips…..I would love to hear them.  Or, if you are a bit like me and get easily overwhelmed and paralyzed, let’s talk about that too as maybe together we can work through it!

Let’s get organized!!!!

Grace

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