I am back from my two trips and raring to go! Our trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to visit with my college girlfriends and hubbies was wonderful. Stayed in a lovely house right on the beach and the weather was perfect. It was just what I needed to relieve the stress of our bedroom and bath remodel. I no sooner got back from that trip when I had to turn around and pack for my scrapbooking retreat. That trip, too, was lovely. I spent quality time with my sister, stepdaughter, and good friends at a lovely B & B. I got a lot of scrapbooking done but I am still two years behind!
Before I left for NC, I had made significant headway on de-cluttering my spare room. However, I made a complete mess preparing for my scrapbooking retreat. I was pulling out everything in site and hidden to put my materials together for the retreat. I came home from the retreat to a disastrous mess. I became determined more than ever to get this under control.
So far I have worked for two days to declutter some more. I got rid of a lot of paper and was able to stack several boxes of trip memorabilia (needed for future scrapping) on some cleaned off shelves. I am in a real pitching out mood so I hope I can keep up the momentum. I was almost ready to call in a professional organizer for a few hours but I am not ready yet. If I only have them for two hours, they will make me start pitching stuff and I can't do that under pressure. I have to evaluate everything and decide whether or not I need it. Once I decide what I truly need and will use, then perhaps I can get someone to help me decided how to store.
I also got a handle on my packs of pictures and got them all labelled and put in my sort boxes. Then I filed my picture CDs in the proper file box. I am beginning to wonder how long I should keep these CDs. There will be a time, probably by next year, when I will have run out of space for my CDs.
Well, that's all for now because I have to continue purging.
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