At the moment, the temptation of the flat surfaces seems to be winning.
But I have a plan.
I've spent the last week or so clearing out the dross: going through clothing and sorting it into things that go back into drawers and closets and things that go into a rather large (and overflowing at the moment) donation bin. These will be going out to charity donation later in the week after I teach tomorrow.
Yesterday, I ran around the house with a trash bag and recycling bin and threw out obvious bits of junky clutter: the inevitable McDonalds happy meal toys that collect as remnants of having an 8-year-old in the house (although far fewer than there used to be because we've been eating a much more healthy, homemade diet these days); old school papers; scattered newspaper remnants; an assortment of half-finished craft project cast-offs; and all sorts of other odd little bits and pieces that came from who knows where.
And I learned this: we buy a lot of junky crap on impulse. That has to stop.
I've also been going through closets and drawers and casting out old, useless dreck. Just going through my make-up and ridding myself of expired or too old products was an eye opener. Literally. I had four separate opened and expired tubes of mascara and another unopened one, all scattered about the bathroom from various trips in the last few years where I'd forgotten a mascara and gotten another one on the road, and then forgotten that it was stashed in a travel bag...my brain is a sieve, clearly.
Why do all of this now?
Because winter is coming. Once it hits, we'll be inside a lot, hibernating from the ice and sleet and snowy nastiness, and I'd like the "inside" to be a less chaotic and cluttered place to be. For my own sanity, if nothing else.
Some people do spring cleaning, I do it this time of year.
It's a sort of almost-birthday present to myself: the gift of more sanity, more space, and a little renewal.
(Photo via Christopher_Hawkins. Lovely, isn't it?)
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