I am a hopeless clutterer. I have been my whole life. As a child, my room was always a mess. I would spend the whole weekend cleaning up and it would be in shambles in another week or two. As a teenager who had my own room, things got even worse. My parents were always threatening me and I would dutifully clean up, only to have it return to a worse state. Things were just as bad at work (I am now retired). I am not proud of this and, believe me, I am not proud of this picture, which describes my current spare room, but I thought maybe by posting some pictures and keeping this blog, I could shame myself into doing something about it. I think I need a 12-step program. The first step is to admit one's problem. So- Hello, my name is Marie and I am a clutterer. I have read every book imaginable on clutter and have vowed to be better, but it just doesn't seem to last. Mind you, I am not a hoarder like those on tv and I freely throw things away, but then I just seem to buy more stuff!
Our spare room is really my room to do with what I want. My husband is afraid to come in the room. It started out solely as a guest room, but we live in a 2-bedroom condo and I began to need space for my projects ( I am an avid scrapbooker). So the bed was replaced with a sofa bed and I added a beautiful Hobby Hideway which is where I am supposed to scrapbook and keep my materials, but right now I can't even find the top! I just have too much stuff for such a small room and when I work on a project, I have stuff strewn everywhere.
So for the next month or two ( I have to take a break for almost 2 week because of a trip), I plan to tackle one area at a time and record my progress in my blog. Wish me luck!
