#Microblog Monday 313: A Single Space
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Immediately after writing that last post about the staycation, I was moping on the sofa, playing solitaire, when I decided that I would officially lose it if I had to spend one more day staring at the stacks of paper on top of the file cabinet.
I dumped everything in the center of the floor and spent four hours sorting and shredding old papers dating back to when the twins were in elementary school. It felt so damn good. I mean, it didn’t feel good while I was doing it, but it felt good after the space was empty. I cleaned off the top of my desk for good measure.
And I still had time to sit outside and read in the afternoon. And pull together lunch and breakfast for the first three days of the week. Feeling productive turned the whole day around. I accomplished one big thing on the staycation, AND I read a bunch of books, too. So all is well that ends well.
I think I need to tackle a tiny space in the house every two weeks or so. I don’t have the emotional bandwidth to deal with the whole basement at once, but I can do a single corner of a room every few weeks and have the whole thing finished by winter. It’s hard to live with clutter when you can’t get breaks from your home.
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8 comments
Oh, yes to your last sentence. Home has become so much more than home for so much longer than it used to be. We, too, have been spending more time tending our home, taking care of things that we never seemed to make time for pre-pandemic.
Yay you for clearing that stack!
Yes! I had a spurt of energy early on in the pandemic & did some closet cleaning & bookshelf weeding… we had half a dozen garbage bags full of cast-off clothes & books sitting in the back of our car, waiting to go to the thrift shop when it reopened…! (which it finally did in June). Apparently they have been swamped with donations, so we’re not the only ones who took advantage of the downtime to do some cleaning…!
I can totally relate to this post. Nothing gives me a mood lift like clearing and decluttering a space, esp. one that I have to look at often.
I have to do a lot of decluttering now I have to leave my apartment, and because I hate it, I put on a timer for 15 minutes twice a day for decluttering. 15 min is more or less what I can stand at a time. And it works. I am starting to see results.
Ooooh, decluttering is so painful when you do it, but so satisfying after. And I agree with Lori on your last sentence…we can’t escape our homes so much anymore, so the clutter is more overwhelming. At the end of the school year, the first thing I did was clean my office. I need to do it again so that I’m starting the new year fresh…right now it’s a mess of papers and schedules and looks like the inside of my brain. I’m glad you had a good staycation and you got to read a BUNCH of books! 🙂
Please don’t mention the clutter to me. I thought I would lose my mind yesterday when I surveyed my home office. I had to will myself to turn away and get other work done. I can’t go down that rabbit hole–just yet.
Some years ago I decluttered my linen cupboard, painted the inside a bright white, and I STILL feel happy when I put towels or sheets away and see the perfect order there. I seriously need to do that to my office!
I keep thinking about the stuff I should be doing. Then I decide I don’t feel like doing it. I’ve been meaning to wash the cars for weeks. What with the hurricane remnants making their way up to me this weekend, it’s not happening (again). Maybe I’ll go through the boxes of nostalgia in the basement. Or start that 8mm-to-digital conversion project. Or sit on the couch and read a book. That last one seems most likely.