When I decided on the house I’m living in, one of the things I liked was that it had a spare bedroom. Somewhere my mother could sleep when she came over for a holiday.
And it worked out well for the first … I’m going to say eight years I was here.
Then it was 2020 and my mother stopped coming over. She moved to a nursing home and I needed somewhere to put her stuff.
Guess where it went.
Guess where some of it still is.
I decided to repurpose the room as my office since it already had a desk in it, at the foot of the bed.
The bed that’s piled two feet high with stuff I didn’t have anywhere else to put.
But my back is to it, so I only see it if I get up. Or if I’m on a video call.
My office is where I work. Where I procrastinate.
I have evidence.
It’s sneaking up behind me.

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April 12, 2024 at 9:46 am
Oh no! Evidence, thats baaad! Lol! Xo
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March 30, 2024 at 12:27 pm
I currently have my spare room piled full as well….I just wandered in there, moved 2 things from one side of the room to the other, said forget it and shut the door.
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March 31, 2024 at 7:37 pm
Haha! I totally get that. I found the wall of a gingerbread house today in between a stack of papers. That was it for me for the day.
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April 1, 2024 at 6:19 am
Oh my….yeah, I can understand that!
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March 24, 2024 at 9:24 pm
It’s sneaking up on me, lol.
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March 25, 2024 at 9:45 am
😀
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March 23, 2024 at 9:44 pm
It’s crazy how easily space fills up with stuff. I’m finally getting into decluttering now that I’m retired and don’t have kids, but it’s still an uphill process.
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March 24, 2024 at 10:02 am
It really is. My goal is to do at least one thing a day. It’s helping, slowly but surely.
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March 24, 2024 at 8:52 pm
I give a little cheer in my head every time I put something in the donation bag or the trash.
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March 25, 2024 at 9:44 am
Right? Such a sense of accomplishment in the small things. ❤
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March 25, 2024 at 9:55 pm
True! ❤
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March 23, 2024 at 7:36 pm
I have always considered myself a tidy hoarder. I hate to throw anything away.
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March 23, 2024 at 7:39 pm
It’s so hard to get rid of stuff!
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March 23, 2024 at 6:47 pm
Like Dan said, good luck. Mary’s been working through all our accumulated crap, and I know it’s tough.
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March 23, 2024 at 7:12 pm
It really is. Especially when you don’t want to throw things out because you never know when you might need them. 😛 *rolls eyes* Thanks, John. Good luck to you too.
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March 23, 2024 at 6:41 pm
If think we all have elements of that room. Good luck.
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March 23, 2024 at 7:11 pm
Thanks, Dan. 🙂
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