clear the clutter

It is awesome to have closets, my kids have a place for their own clothes and that makes a world of difference in the new house.
My closet is huge! And now we have more rooms.
I got rid of so much stuff when we moved, but I still have to sell/donate other things.
I’ve been giving things their place and then sorting out the boxes that I packed all mixed up.
I just hope I end up soon, it is a bit overwhelming, specially with those few last boxes I packed from the old house where I just tossed stuff in from wherever.

I will beat this goal! I hope soon.

Thus staying away from 43 for a while.
I’ve been taking everything out of closets and boxes, under the beds, just anywhere and rearranging everything as if I’m moving in, but there are piles of mess to sort and discard.
It has been an adventure to to this because with my ADD I sit and read each magazine, I start three jobs at the time and finish none, I start two separate boxes of the same things and then find out I could have store the contents together, and loose so many things on trips from one room to the next, like the tape I was happy to find right away to label things, but because I needed a marker to write on it I lost the tape when I went to get the marker then waisted an hour tying to find the tape to find out I had lost the marker while finding the tape…finally I got another marker and kept the tape as a bracelet in my arm.
Little Pepa follows me around “helping” unsort the things and reclaiming the things to discard… making me even more confused than ever…where is the pair for this shoe? I put it here I’m sure!? (Pepa holding it full of toys walks around me, awe you looking fow a shoe mommy? I’ll hep you find it! She runs off and brings me shoes that were already put away, I say not that one so she dumps it and goes to get another, until I notice her cargo “the shoe” and I say that one! But that is MY boat mommy! I say sorry give it to me, and so she takes her sobbing porcupine and people to a new boat.
I miss you 43ers so much, I’ve missed the latest events of each one of you, but I don’t forget you, I’ll catch up as soon as I can.
The pingos also have science projects due soon and we are working on that…
Take care I love you.
Wish me luck tackling the 13 head clutter monster and keeping the kids happy and interested in their projects.

Ugh! It seems like for every thing I take out 7 pop out…
I know it is not possible and eventually I’ll get a grip of the untameable clutter.
I can’t keep every paper the school sends me, I don’t need them!!!
3 boxes of stuff are out for donating, now I just have to take them.
I’ll keep this up every week, baby toys are not longer needed, YEY! .... (buaaa this cry is because I have babies no longer they are all big)

WHY??? because I keep everything! I’m a pack rat! I pick stuff from the trash because it has potential of becoming art or of still working, I don’t know. I keep stuff for sentimental values, my grandmas old chewed up hat, or I keep things that I may need later but when I need them and can’t find them I buy new ones anyways. I keep presents that I didn’t like because it will hurt the feelings of who gave them to me if I get rid of them…
Not only everything I clear will unleash guilty feelings and fear of regret but I also dislike tedious jobs, it hurts my brain I’m so easily distracted of what I’m doing that I end up reading the book I’m trying to give away, I try every single piece of clothing I cleared out of the closet and sometimes like it and keep it, or I save it again to make a pillow out of it, maybe even start making it… and then put it away before is finished, only to turn it into a bag next time I find it ( I would forget it was going to be a pillow).
My clutter is a source of creativity but also a great source of frustration, of not finding what I need when I need it and of making disasters every time I try to get something under a pile of stuff…
I decided to clutter up my computer instead and take pictures of the things I keep for sentimental value, give them to people who needs them, that way they got used…
I have clutter everywhere even inside my head, that is why I can’t think, actually I think too much too many things that are in disarray.
The problem is starting where? I get tired after a while, I try to clear up stuff but the place I want to put it in is already taken by something else that has no place and room.
My sweet grandma used to say, one place for each thing and each thing on it’s place, but not only do I have too much stuff I also don’t have room for even the stuff I need to keep…
I live in a slide number puzzle.
It would be so nice if real things where like computers, sit and click…cut and paste…
I could create a folder where there is no more room in my closet and put the hats that don’t fit, then take the whole closet file and stuff it in another closet file that has all the closet files of the whole house, so when I need to find something I just go to…. whatever….you get the point.