My sister called me a packrat this morning. Can you believe that? My sister. The woman who uses her 3rd bedroom as a big closet! She told me I have too much stuff and it’s affecting the “flow” of my home. What does that even mean? My house flows just fine!
In all seriousness, she may have a point. I’ve been meaning to go through my stuff for a long time and get rid of a lot of the stuff that I’m not using anymore. I have clothes from a few years ago that I don’t really wear anymore. I’ve also got a bunch of other random stuff: computer stuff, books, mp3 players. Ok, maybe I am kind of a packrat. Anyway, I think I’m going to use one of those sites where you can sell your stuff that you’re not using anymore. I thought about taking some of it to a local pawn shop but I don’t know how I feel about that, and I was going to try and list some of it on eBay but I don’t want to pay a bunch of listing fees and end up not having anything sell. Another idea was giving it to my sister, but, uh, I think she already has enough stuff in that bedroom.
I really don’t clean enough, either. I think that’s part of the reason I have so much stuff. You know, I always make a note to myself to try and be more proactive with my cleaning. I know a little bit here and there adds up and you don’t even have to have those big cleaning days if you do it that way, but I just don’t. It’s always “oh, I’ll do that next time.” Except I don’t. And then every few months I have to set a day aside and just clean my entire place. The floors, the furniture, all my stuff, the kitchen, the bathroom, everything. I even have an old toothbrush that I use to clean the grout in the shower (which works brilliantly, btw; use your old toothbrushes for this!). And then when I finish I’m like yeah, that looks nice. And then it slowly starts getting all dirty again, things being left out, mail piling up on my table, clothes on the floor next to the hamper in my bedroom. Yeah. It’s too late to do it as my new year’s resolution this yeah, so, I don’t know, maybe I should just do a little cleaning every Saturday or something when I first wake up instead.