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miss apple

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I totally forgot about my blog here. On the one hand I feel like I'm not doing much worth writing about but on the other it's pretty much pure laziness. I've been going through a phase of apathy recently; from dancing, to knitting, to sewing, etc. Little bits of creativity surface now and then but for the most part I feel as though I'm out of touch. Part of the problem is all the sutff in my apartment is piled everywhere and I think it saps my energy. I know I'd feel better if I would get off my butt and clean and organize but I am hardly ever in the mood to do so. The ony time cleaning urges occur are at some inopportune time like midnight when I really need to get to bed so that I can get up for work and also I'm sure my neighbors would not appreciate me running the vaccum at that hour.

 

My husband and I are a deadly duo of disorganized packrats. I have lots of stuff (collections and crafty things) and he amasses tons of papers and gadgets (and the boxes and manuals and accessories that go along with said gadgets). Even though I can look around and see more of my stuff than his I somehow feel that I am not the problem (oh denial :eek: ) since I feel as though my stuff is in neat piles and his is just scattered around. He, however, does not feel the same. We keep talking about changing our habits but that's all it's been so far - just talk. We even bought a book on organzing and cleaning but I think it got buried ;) How sad is that? We really need to find a solution soon though because winter is coming and having to spend more time indoors makes looking at it ten times worse.

 

Oy vey.

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Greetings from packrat central. I lived in my previoous house for a long time, so had the opportunity to amass amazing quantities of stuff. Since I live on my own, I can't blame anyone else for this weakness:) When I moved last year, it was to a larger place, and guess what, the piles are just more scattered. I think the goal is to start with a really tiny area (ie-your desk, bathroom shelf, nightstand, etc)

 

By the way,as far as the organizational book goes; does it provide any help to know that I bought a book on overcoming procrastination and haven't read it yet? It fell from the stack of books on nightstand last night:)

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I would totally do the same thing with a procrastination book :) I have tried to start small but then weeks go by and stuff has built back up again. Aside from getting packages one reason I hate mail is all the catalogs from mail-order stores. Those then have to be thrown out but for each one that comes in (along with all the other junk mail) I have to tear off the address label and put it in the shred pile. The shred pile is filled with the labels and then those checks credit card companies issue in their statements in hopes that you'll borrow even more money, receipts, and on and on. It is amazng the amount of paperwork generated from day to day life. Not to mention all the menus and cleaning service/moving company ads that get stuffed under my door (I call that floor spam) and crap stuck under my windshield. It just makes me want to scream!

 

ahem. I feel better now :)

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