Not quite a horder - decluttering

oh, Barb, its sounds wonderful!!!i have tried, but just haven't done any sewing in a longgg while.. used to do trapunto projects, a lot of them, but my hands a re too bad, as you can tell by my tyoing.. can you give me an idea, (in a pm) how to put ther little circles on a strapless bra, so i can out the detatchable straps on?? ive tried to figute it out, and oanns has no instructions. the strapless i have to wear the dr. put the port in the wrong place!!!! wont stay up, the ends curl in.. and reg. bra straps irritate the port..

  if its not a good time, try to think after the new yr how i could try.. i made my own foobs, but the btra excapes me...thankx.3jays

I am way better at keeping things in place, than making the new places, for the things. I would like to say a box a day but I usually don't stick with that myself. I am a great procrastinator about getting a mess cleaned up but I am so much happier working in an organized space. 

When we moved in here I had just had surgery a few weeks before so I didn't do the packing just the record keeping of what was in each box. I had a good notebook of numbers and notations that should have kept it all straight. I even made signs for each room and put them on the walls with notes for the placement of furniture and boxes.   When everyone paid attention it worked perfectly but upstairs out of my sight is where the big mess came about. My DH is not the best in household stress and he ignored my signs and tons of things that were to go else where became huge stacks in my sewing room. Things were moved from Chicago that should have never went on the truck, but I really had no say in it because I wasn't doing the packing. Then I became overwhelmed with trying to even make a start in a room filled with boxes all too heavy for me to lift. It was chaotic and so disheartening for me.Now I am hopeful. 

It is hard to explain how I get so down when my wishes are ignored, I feel like I can never get back up again. I was still in a depression from when my mother died when I go BC and we moved so that probably has a lot to do with it.

I will get back at you about your bra strap situation, if I forget hollar at me okay? 

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for the bras, I swear by the "ahh bra from rhonda shear.. at hsn is the cheapest... but i use an underwire way under where my gitls were, for good nights.. but they need the straps to the side. bc the port healed over badly, so can't wear any sraps...

    dont worry for now, Diane... neccessity is the mother of invention...

 i "jiggeed " up one for new years.. an ironing board snap to keep the liner on ( it has snaps on both sides, and i bedazzled it!!!dorsn't look too bad, and it'll pass muster! i'll letcha know..hahah

  Im still having trouble with breathing, a bit. gonna get an erays, i think we snapped a rib, but im not wearing a belt, its too painful.. it;; have to heal as it is!!!my ribs protrude,cause i had a radical..no breasr rissue left, at all...oh well.. whaddya gonna do???Hope the New Year will be good to all of us!.3jays

Teka,

Make sure they are not colored candles. The color can "seep through" and you can't ever remove it.

yes, that is better.

Back on diet, exercising.  Got rid of a little 'stuff'.  Not much but it's something.  Hope to do a little each dey, even if it's only one kid's book!  (my boys are 24 and 27 and not likely to be any grands anytime in the next 20 years!)

Oh, joy, joy, joy!!!!!  My 3 sisters came for a few days to help me out, check up on me, see with their own eyes how I am doing, etc. We had a WONDERFUL girls weekend, and they helped clean out the refrigerator, review the wardrobe (donated to the Rescue Mission), sorted a duffel bag full of jewelry that I have had for over 10 years since my MIL died and left it for us to sort out and dispose of, and the coup de gras was that my youngest sister cleaned up and sorted ALL the papers on my desk!!!!  I was able to catch up my bills tonight with minimal effort as they were all collected in one place, and I think I can keep up with it now that it is not so overwhelming. They also did some scrapbooking and are helping me put together an album for DH with all his Boy Scout and Eagle Scout badges that he had saved in a box.  It will be so nice to be able to give it to him so he can look at them rather than stuck in a box in a closet somewhere.

I fed them well - took them to some great restaurants - best I could do for now. I am SOOOO grateful for them!

Happy New Year to all of you, and here's to simplifying life!

Linda, that sounds soooooooooo wonderful to hang with your sisters.  And to get things done to boot, very nice!

I have 2 sisters, one in NYC the other in NC.  We are also very close but not sure I would get any work out of them. 

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Several years ago we sold my parents house and they moved in to my house.  My dad had 3 of everything, mowers, shovels, tools, etc.  Got rid of much of it when I moved after they both passed but still had lots of stuff.  Then my aunt died Oct 2010 and she was a pack-rat, actually not quite as much as you see on the TV show "Hoarders" but not much less.  She had never married and had no kids so it took 6 of us cousins about 8 weekends to clean out.  Some of it ended up here.

Most of all that is all gone now through yard sales and donations.  I still have lots of clothes that I need to get rid of as they just sit in the closets (I have three huge closets) and I know they can be useful to someone not so blessed as I am.  Guess I'm just tired of being so materialistic.  Now you have gotten me motivated to do some more this weekend.  Would love to see my den become a den again.

3jays, I had a colleague who kept a "Christmas" tree in his office all year long.  He put decorations on it for the season or nearest holiday, so it was a Valentine's tree, St. Patrick's tree (I think that was his favorite!), a 4th of July, Halloween, and Thanksgiving tree, and also changed with the seasons.  It was a great way to enjoy little trinkets and decorations all year long and it was a lot of fun to walk into his office!

Did I tell you that we took decorations down on Jan. 6th, which I consider the proper day to do that, and the tree came down in 10 minutes, just as quickly as it went up. It just collapsed on itself to become a flat circle of greenery with ribbons, decorations, and lights, and was quickly put into the box it came in and stored in the closet.  My DH did not grumble at ALL about the tree this year, and he is truly Mr. Scrooge himself, with a touch of Mr. Grinch mixed in!