Don't you wish you could just put a Garage Sale sign in front of your house rather than deal with the clutter to get and stay organized. I know I do and have wanted to!
Let me introduce myself to you. My name is Dawn Shive and I have been dealing with trying to stay organized my whole life except for the few times I have lived by myself with very little in the way of "stuff". Namely when I was just out of school and could not afford things. Hence, no clutter.
I have always been a collector of things depending on my interests at the time. I have cupboards full of all kinds of kitchen gadgets based on the premise of "what if I need that while I am in the middle of a recipe?". I am a full time RV'er now living in a park model in an RV park. Prior to this, I lived and traveled in my motorhome after my husband passed away. It was definitely a chore downsizing from my 2,000 sq ft house into the motorhome. To give you an idea of how bad I am about collecting stuff, I had to give away all the material I had stored in drawers in my craft room. I had over 400 yards of various materials. I could have opened my own fabric store. Again, what if I decided to make a new outfit in the middle of the night? All I had to do was open my drawer full of patterns I had never used, then go to one of the drawers labeled with the main color contained in that drawer. My husband was just as bad as I was so his garage was, I was told, every guy's fantasy garage. He did not have just one of an item, he had anywhere from 2 to 5 of that item. His reasoning was that way no matter where he was on the farm, he could put his hands on what he needed quickly and what if he lost it. We lived in the country so he did not want to have to stop what he was doing to go get another tool if he had misplaced one. We were two peas in a pod.
I have always been told I am just a little OCD. Even in the middle of all the clutter my husband and I could create, you could open any one of my kitchen cupboards to find bowls were stored with other bowls and nested from large to small. Baking dishes were with other baking dishes and also nested as well everything else in my kitchen. Everything in our dresser drawers was folded in neat stacks and in it's own drawer. Those were the only two places in my house I had complete control. My daughters are grown with mostly grown children. They still refuse to help in the kitchen for fear they might put something where it does not belong. At least that is their excuse.
At this time, I am living with boxes of stuff stacked in every room of my park model RV since I moved in here at the end of March. I have made a promise to myself to get organized and stay that way. This will be to chronicle my journey getting rid of my clutter and getting myself organized. As I learn about great ways to get this done, I will be sharing with you. We can share the fun and laughs as we learn what works and what does not.
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