#no more hoarding

Really fucking proud of myself this weekend so far.

I cleaned out the storage room. This has been hanging over me in at the top of a massive to do list for years. Finally it has been rid of most of the junk (I literally cannot lift the old filing cabinet in there) and can actually be used for storing OUR stuff. Costumes are now in there with the friggin Christmas tree and all the decorations and stuff.

This cleared off almost an entire shelf in the hallway. This shelf will now have the job of supporting the seedlings that we will be planting for our indoor/outdoor garden.

I have also cleared out the corner of piled up stuff next to my sewing desk. All the scraps of foam that I will never use (because it has literally sat there for years and I haven’t used it yet, so I probably never will) went in the garbage. The drawers for organizing that just sat full of junk forever have been emptied of junk and are now properly storing my crafting tools, scriggly supplies (string, tubes, and hook and loop tape), and thank you cards for my customers. Unfinished projects are now where I can see them, and have access to them so perhaps they will be finished this year. With everything out of the way and cleared out, I could now use the bottom two shelves on the bookshelf and actually put all my comics, graphic novels, and manga away. I even had space to put my file folder full of patterns away and sorted newer patterns into envelopes so I could store them.

It’s a lot of work, but every time I get a little more done it feels better. I’m trying to stay on top of my habits too. Put my mug away when I’m done my coffee, put my sewing things back in the tin when I’m done, don’t leave scraps lying around, that kind of thing. It hasn’t been easy. I have slipped a couple times and had several mugs to put away, or realized this morning that I’d left a ton of scraps on the coffee table again. But I think the important part is I’m trying. Change doesn’t happen overnight. But it will happen.