carbonel

Welcome home. A spinning class from an expert sounds like a wonderful way to spend the weekend.

I look forward to hearing how things go with your organizer and any particular things that you notice work well (or don't) in working with her. Because, yes, my abc;s match yours.

My theory of stuff encompasses the joy of stuff, the comfort of stuff, and the burden of stuff. Any particular item can be all one thing, or aspects of two or three. Having dishes to eat off of is comfort; the fact that those dishes were originally part of the Kosher for Passover dishes in the Yalow household is joy, as is the fact that they have two square corners and a half-round. Fun shape.

Unorganized stuff is all burden. If I know I have it but can't find it (at all, or without a lot of work), there's no comfort or joy in it.

So, yeah, I want things to be organized, and I celebrate each and every time I go to place X to get item Y and it's right there! But I've needed to prune my closet for the last...oh, 4 or 5 years...and I keep doing other things. I've been going to clean and tweak my office for nearly a year...and I keep doing other things. I used to clear most of the excess stuff out of the garage at least once a year...but it's going on 4 years since I did it last...or is it 5?

So I want to be tidy and organized, but I don't want to put the work into actually getting to that point and then maintaining a pattern of habits to keep me there.

In the meanwhile, I continue to excel at accumulating stuff, at filling the Cardis and hauling more home....