Comments on: Simplifying, Or How My Clutter Owns Me

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:29:27 +0000

Haha Misty! It’s not often I can actually HEAR a comment

By: Misty

Misty — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:05:43 +0000

Oh, Mother…

By: Liberal Media

Liberal Media — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:16:45 +0000

Well I suppose your children can put up with it… It’ll be a trip down memory lane! Or as far as those boyfriends go, a trip down “aren’t you glad you didn’t keep dating him….”

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:02:17 +0000

oh yeah… an entire family of packrats. My children are much older than yours I think, but… they have left things here that I cannot bear to discard. Nutcracker videos! Boyfriends that oh so did not make the cut. Will their children have the ability to view them? How much should I spend transferring 8 mm movies of their grandparents when they were young?

Does it matter?

Junk mail, now that could be an entirely separate post. Some of it is just strange. For the past 20 years, we’ve been throwing away AARP ads addressed to one daughter who is not even close to old enough to even think about joining.

Bottom line is that I am comforted by my clutter… photos, books, trinkets, cards…

By: retriever

retriever — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:50:24 +0000

I can relate…Now imagine an entire family of packrats. Most of the guides on decluttering are written for women’s magazines to benefit their advertisers: ie: get rid of soemthing you haven’t worn in a year. This ensures that you will keep buying clothes, etc. I use the stuff I keep. My daughters wear (and pounce with glee on) clothes I saved from when I was younger and thinner. I collect stuff like cookbooks and cookware and camera equipment. And the books….

Not enough space tho.

And I do wiish there was a way to get rid of all the papers without sorting thru them…:) I also wish that the US Postal Service didn’t survive on junk mail. THe mountain of garbage I get every day. I routinely lose bills and important mail amidst the junk.