MORE EMAILS

I realized yesterday, after I posted that it was not 9932 emails in the deleted items folder but 9932 UNREAD emails. So it must have been quite a few more. The annoying part was that twice emails that I had deleted downloaded again. fortunatley only a little more than 1000. Sigh. Yes. ONE. THOUSAND. MY desire to declutter the whole house has vapoized. Might have to do witht hte fact that I was busy with laundry all day and that the hosue is cleaner than it has been in a long time thank to my housefairy Heather stopping by to use the potty. She has a key to my house and before Christmas she wanted to escape a visitor and help me get ready for my trip. as I left sonner than she thought we joked around that she could come and let ehrself in and clean. Well. Guess what. She did. She was onthe way home and really needed to go so instead of a rest stop sheswung by my house and decided as she was here already to vacuum, mop the floor and clean a bathroom. She had her kids with her and put them to work in the kitchen and the girls's room. She said they all agreed it wasn't bad at alland that I should stop complaining. Well. They did stay out of my hoarded room (didn'T know what to do with it hahahaha) and it was awesome to come home to a sparkling house. She is the only one that can actually get away with that!

Today, drum roll please, I went through the Christmas decoration, picked out a few rather sentimetal items that the kids made at school, took a picture and asked the makers what to do with them. We threw out 4 and kept 2. Totally unheard of just a year ago. I am a hero. 

7 a day: 7 Christmas decoration, 2 torn items of clothing.

surface of the day: sideboard in the livign room, nativity put away, dusted and redcorated with original items

10.000 EMAILS LATER

Okay. So it wasn't exactly 10.000 emails. Only 9932. I totally forgot that I had set my account to "save all as long as there is room"(I download on a daily basis).I almost died when I saw the number of emails in my inbox going past 1000 after setting my computer back up the other day. Of course I was able to delete in bulk, but sometime in the middle I realized that I had deleted all the email addresses, too. I was tempted to look trough all those emails to save them but then I decided to be be smart and to just DELETE them all and if I happened to come across one I needed I would copy it. So. I ended up with 9932 emails my "trash" folder. 

The good news is that I got rid of 2 folders of "importet files" storing the files I wanted to keep in the proper spots and by deleting an armload of old files nobody needs any more. 

Tomorrow I will be back home and I finally get to start my end of the year CLEAR OUT!

THE END IS NIGH

Every year, right before New Years I have a very strong urge washing over me. I want to decutter and clean the whole house. It usually starts around the 30th of December and lasts all of 2 days, I pull eveything out. Make a big mess. Get frustrated. Stuff everything back in and then feel bad about it. This year it obviously started sooner. But I am also smarter. So was able to supressed the feeling, but ther is no way  around it. I will give in, but this year it will be a success. Or rather, many little sucesses! In as little as 2 days I will back in my own home. The trash can will basically be empty as we will have been gone for more than a week. Anyone care to send me a reminder to fill them up all the way? I can and I will do this. 15 min every day. And the new declutter approach. My hint for you are the letters M and K. Maybe you can figure it out yourself!

VIRTUAL DECLUTTER

Just because you don't see all that data clutter doesn't mean it is not there. As I am visiting family for the Holidays, I can't really declutter. So I decided to sit down with my laptop and really sort it out. As my husband James and his brother in law swiped it clean and set it back up, this is the perfect time to start. My files are all there, but they are in "imported data folders" so it is time to look through them all and come up with a storing system theat helps me find things without the search function! More important even, to get rid of all the old files nobody needs anymore! Lets see how much MB I can get rid of!

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2014

I hope you all had a very good Christmas, Chanuka, Yalda, you name it! I hope you found a moment to sit back. Let go of the things that trouble you and simply enjoyed being with family and loved ones. (I sure hope most of your family makes it into the second category! hahaha)

Here are my excuses of why I left all of my 3 readers hanging.

• stomach bug
• head lice
• mal ware
• pre christmas stress
• traveling

Pick any or all of the reasons above and I  am sure you will see why I negelected the blog and decluttering. But I am recharging my batteries and a fellow hoarder friend and I are fully motivated for our new 6 month decluttering project. I won't give it all away just now, but rest assured it sounds rather promising. The best part about it in my opinion is that she will call the shots and I will just tag along! I do so much better when I have a working buddy! So much for my little preview of 2015! See you then at the latest! 

AVOIDANCE

I have been avoiding the blog. Why? So I would not have to report on my book project. I am afraid that was not the smartest approach, but hey. By now you are probably already guessing that it did not go all that well. You are right. I only got 2/3 of the shelfs sorted and the girls were willing to part with about 15 books. OF those 15 books  I was only willing to part with 2. Now here is were I get to claimit was a succes anyway. I looked at those books for a day and decided to rehome them. 2 people were REALLY excited. One, because she is a foreigner and was excited to have 2 childrens books to learn the language. The other one was excited because with both of them being students their is no money for books and my girls tossed stuff that are considered children's classics, like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Love You Forever". The third new owner doesn't even know how lucky she is as she hasn't gotten her books yet. 

So after all I think I did well. 

Surface of the day: kitchen counter

7 a day: BOOKS