How can such little things take soooo much room?!?!
A little bit here, a little bit there and I'm starting to believe I need an intervention on Extreme Hoarders.
I have no trouble sorting and getting rid of things in the "real" world. Where I get into trouble is when I find some random minute piece of something unrecognizable...I look at it from all angles. I KNOW I can use this for something...but where? Obviously, I have to save it or somewhere down the road I'll regret it.
23...45...ok... HUNDREDS of boxes later I find myself making the proverbial maze to be able to walk around. Intellectually, I have a grip on this. Emotionally, it's a work in progress. I shutter when I think about how long this process has taken.
Instead of tackling this all at once, I'm removing one box at a time to another room. Taking it away from everything else is very important. This way I only concentrate on the task at hand. I chuckle at some of my past purchases...the out of scale funky painted breadbox...the "crushed" nuts that look more like chunks of broken brown crayons. These are things so bad I can't imagine what I must have been thinking. I know in the beginning, I didn't want to insult the artist (I use the word very loosely) by sending it back and saying THIS REALLY SUCKS!!
I have learned that photographs can be deceiving. I look closer, put it on my favorites list and get back top it after time passes. 9 out of 10 times after taking an second or third look, I delete it.
I've also bought shelves to suit my needs I started thinking outside the box. It finally dawned on me that all the shelves were too far apart. I purchased several stacking shoe racks...the white ones to build a custom closet with. The shelves are only 6 inches apart and six packages (twelve shelves) give me the storage I need without a lot of space.
Well...I'm up to box three. Anyone want three kittens in a box that look more like decomposed fuzz than kittens?
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