Happy New Year! 1-1-11. I am going to try to keep chronicalling my steps to be a less cluttered, more organized person. This is the year where I only keep the things I love. I don't want stuff in my life that's not useful or beautiful, that fills up space and creates distractions.
It's very hard for me to throw things out that could be potentially useful. My family, especially my father, saved everything that could possibly be used again. He didn't realize this but he was the world's greatest recycler, but we also ended up with a lot of stuff that did not get used again. Many times he would be able to fix something or find something without buying it. And you can do that if you have the space and you remember where everything is.
So you can save it, if it really will serve a purpose someday and you have a space for it. Or better yet give it to someone who really can use it. Or don't buy it in the first place.
Today's Boston Globe talks about people that buy gifts or get gifts, and realize they don't want them. But it's too much effort to return them. So they stay and clutter up the house. I think that is one of my biggest challenges for this year, is how to get rid of gifts I don't want or need without feeling guilty. Most of last year's xmas gifts that I didn't want I gave away, by donating to raffles, or taking it to the Take it or leave it, or some items I simply tossed out. I really felt guilty, but I also felt relieved. These were gifts I could not return. My mother-in-law gave me this white casserole dish with lid she found at a house sale. I thought it was ironstone, but it was new and the lid did not match. I wish that I had loved it, but I didn't. Sorry.
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