mermaidgrl23

I have serious emotional attachment to my towels and linens. I can’t part with them! Sure, it was easy to toss out all of the ragged, torn towels; but want about the perfectly good stuff. There only fault was being a color scheme that no longer suited my bathroom! OK. I hate to admit it, but I pulled all my towels out of the cupboard three days ago and washed everything. Then I sorted them by color set. And then I stared at them for the past 48 hours trying to decide which ones to toss. I had something like 58 different towels. It’s just my hubby and me! Sure we have the odd guest, but get real… who needs that many towels! I love the pure white; I love the gray. Why do I have purple and green. But they are in great shape; how does someone just throw them out?

ohhhh, therapy required!

I am looking to develop a larger range of meals that I can cook for family and friends, from scratch. Most of my standbyes are traditional home cooking.

Here are ones I can do right now:

1. Chicken Pot Pie
2. Beef Pot Roast
3. Lasagne

There are other things that I can cook, but I wouldn’t call them my special dishes.

I have been sorting clothes and counted 22 t-shirts that I would consider “staying home” attire. I have neatly folded them and put on my closet shelf. I know that at least half of them must go, but having trouble letting go.

My hubby has the habit of turning the TV on in the morning and letting it run all day as background noise. When it is on, I find myself sitting and watching it – whether I am interested in the program or not. I have literally wasted entire weekends staring at marathon episodes of Cash in the Attic on the BBC. How sad is that? My husband doesn’t sit and watch it, he is still able to move about the house and accomplish things.

Now, the minute he leaves the room I switch off the TV and turn on my CD player to quite relaxing music. I find that I am able to free myself from the sofa and actually get work done in the house.

I am having a difficult time this morning moving through some of my “hot spots”. A hot spot for me are items or groups of items with emotional attachment. I was surprised by the feelings I had when I started sorting through a large bin of stored table linens – table cloths, napkins, tea towels, etc. I began willing enough quickly tossing odd napkins aside; but I soon found myself reaching over and pulling a few of them back. “These will look great in a bread basket” “I can use this as a table cover”. I just couldn’t bring myself to give away any of my perfectly good linens.

Honestly, I think I change my table cloth about four times a year; Christmas, Easter, Thankgiving and then I have my everyday one. How do I rationalize keeping seven to ten different sets?

Then there are the “tea towels”. For some reason I began buying cute tea towels on our trips to the UK; but I have never used them. They are kept in a drawer, still in plastic wrap – I am saving them – but for what? I have trouble the the whole “keep sake” “souvenier” thing – but that is a completely other story.

Today, I am going to toss all of the pristine tea cloths into the washer and put them into regular use. But I am not sure how to move past the table linens problem.

Yesterday I filled a large trash can with just crap I had in dresser drawers. I started a “give away” box, but at the end of the day it was still empty. This stuff wasn’t even worth passing on!

Sometimes I get side tracked by trendy things, but for the most part the practicality of wearing only a few colors makes sense. For years I have worn black as my main color and then mix in a few brights. Right now I have black and brown as my mainstays – solid tops, skirts and pants in each.