celebrate the next Discardia, from 21 Dec 07 to 8 Jan 08

That was wonderfully freeing and fulfilling – I may have to add it to “enjoy first quarter 2008 by having one new and fulfilling experiece…”

I’m most pleased with the attitude adjustment from discarding the nonproductive and unfulfilled internal whining I was listening to.

I’ll be excitedly anticipating the next Discardia season! I wonder if it might be appropriate to “regift” (no new stuff) to people who can appreciate the sensibilities of Discardia?

Discardia finished up yesterday. I was feeling a bit disappointed this morning that I didn’t end it in some grand fashion. However, I remember what its creator said about overblown expectations of specialness. And I did go to the movies with my sweetheart, which is something we don’t do often any more.

I found the whole experience very valuable. Things that I’d been putting off got done (you know, those small annoying tasks that take 5 minutes), useless or unwanted things got thrown, other things got rearranged. It was absolutely worth it.

I think Discardia is going to become something permanent in my life. I’m looking forward to the next one in March

I love this goal. It has pushed me to rid my world of certain things (like 6 bags of perfectly good but unneeded or outgrown clothing to Good Will), but more importantly it has prompted me to look around and actually see and assess the clutter and excess that surrounds me. But I will need to come back to this, perhaps in another form, or via a different goal. So I’m not giving up, exactly. I’m just giving up for now. Discardia blessings, all. Hope it was Happy.

Wouldn’t that be cool. To just throw away the button and stop freakin the heck out. Especially when you know things are going to be okay. That’s it. I am disposing of my friggin freak out button. Maybe I should burn it so I won’t go diggin in the trash later. :/

Cleared the basement. Yay! Discardia works for me.

Found this on my Facebook page today -
“This is an excellent time to eliminate whatever is unnecessary and outworn in your life, from clutter and disorder in your environment, to an unhealthy relationship or even a long-held attitude or belief which keeps you from going after what you really want in life.”

HOW did that happen?

Big pile of stuff in my front hall, waiting to go to Goodwill. Woo-hoo!

Yeah, I still have lots of stuff in my house that can be reduced, plus boxes and boxes of things from my Mom’s house… but there will be more Discardias to celebrate. I think I did pretty well for this one.

I only have one day (half a day, actually) left, but as soon as I get home this evening I am going to discardia-ise my house from top to bottom. Shouldn’t take too long as I’m a bit of a(ahem! an incurable!) neat freak, but there are niggling bits of paper and such. Yes, that’s right, I get niggled by paper.

Then I am going to sit down and draw up a big list of everything that is weighing me down/ pissing me off/ polluting my stream of kind and generous thinking (oho, but there have been a lot of things of late), and I am going to discard that, too. I am going to write one action to take against everything I write down, and I am going to pin that to my notice board and then take a very deep breath and take all the rubbish out of the house on every level you can possibly think of.

And then I shall finish that skirt!

Some of these things will look oh so easy and ARE NOT. Others you will think took tons of time and in fact were quick.

But here goes and I will add to it as I create the rest of it.

Kitchen

Wash Dishes
Put them away

-Clean the pantry
Wash all the cabinets-
Wash the counters
Wash all the things on the counters

Clean all my Blue/White
Clean out the refrigerator
Clean the oven
Clean the black splash
Stock the pantry {oh hell that means shopping}
Take the Trash out
Sweep
Mop

Living Room
Put up the new curtain between the kitchen and LR
Dust the 15’ ceilings.
Wash all my boxes
Put the chair piece on the wall
Hang up all the now clean laundry

Clean the computer

Clean out all the pictures

Clean out all old programs

Make a new computer table

Bring the piano bench in for the computer chair

Clean the air conditioner filter
REMOVE ALL action figures

Set up the sewing machine
Clean out the black cabinet

Clean out the closet {good Lord and sigh}
Bring in the new rug
Hook up the scanner
Hook up the printer
Move one book shelf to my room {sigh.. that means emptying all the books}

Take the recliner to my room

Move the T.V
Move the couches.
Clean under the couch {yeah, now I know why Kj does his cleaning so fast}

Clean under the cushions

Put everyones shoes in their roomsPut up the vision board

Move my other two boards up some to accommodate the new table height
Put in the new web cam program
Put the tree hanging on the other wall

Sweep
Mop

Hallway

Move the mantle to my room
Hang all the pictures
wash my surviving earrings
Put all earrings in their place.
Move the books from the hall
Dust
Make the new curtain
Hang the new curtain
Sweep
Mop
Wash the doors
Put on the wall my treasures that make me smile

Bathroom

Clean the tub

Clean the sinkClean the toilet

Clean out the closet {shitdamnfuck}

Go through all the darn hair conditioner and shampoo, deodorants

Put away all the towels and wash clothes

Sweep
Mop
Spray the door so it stops squeaking

My Room aka Den of Love… LMFTO

Take my gowns off the wall

Take the Indian blanket down
Put up the new curtains
Put the Indian blanket on the other wall
Move the dresser

Move the trunk

Clean the closet {sweet mother of God}

Dust
Hang all the clothes up

Put the blue trunk in the closet

Organize closet

Measure all the tables so it saves time

Take out the piano bench

Make a new lamp shade

Wash all pillow case {all nine million}

Change the sheet

Put all dirty laundry in the laundry room

Clean off the trunk

Clean off the table
Sweep
Mop

Misc
Go through all pictures for scanning.
Frame my Key holes
Put all my pictures in their frames

Find all my fabric

Separate it into darks and lights
Gather all accessories

Fix sewing machine
Clean all my candles and place them

Tend to all my plants

Re pot my pineapple

Make my sisters and mothers surprise present

Take a picture of said surprise present
Go through all my albums
Go through all bills
Pay the bills

Clean the flower bed in front

Water all the plants
Clean out the flower bed in the back

Clean out my new car {windows and vacuum}

Clean out my other two cars so they can be sold
Make my Kick ass Kinky head board
Go through my books {does the torment never end}

Wash my wedding dress

Cut my wedding dress up so I can use that most awesome material
Start Savannah’s quilt
Start Yessica’s quilt
Move that little table to lord only knows where
Fix Kev’s door knob
Do laundry
Clean all the fans
Put my crystals out
Gather the treasure that I have collected for others
Write the love letter

Print all the pretties that need to be printed
Make my Doctors appointment
Pick up my meds
Clean out the make up bag.

Answer all emails
Contact those whom I need to
Meet with Kj’s teachers
Take Sari to her SAT test
Finish sanding the table
Streak Sari’s hair
Streak mine

Stain all my picture frames {then cut my foot}
Give back all the books I’ve borrowed {oh this is gonna HURT}
Start using my exercise bike again {soon as this body flare up is over}
Cry and cry more cause of the major work I have to do.

Kids Room
They are on their own.

purchased another book today (positive that I will love it) and some 80% off Christmas and 50% off craft supplies

sigh

discussed with my husband the possibility of going through the kitchen and giving away some of the unused dishes/wedding gifts/baking utensils

smile

realizing that the mindset required for “use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without” makes it more difficult to “discard”, I’m trying to concentrate on giving away so someone else will benefit

Seems like the Japanese have their own version of Discardia

I feel that celebrating Discardia will become a regular thing for me.