The kids say Mom is anal, hub-sidekick sez “where you gonna put it?” I walked away from this estate sale EVEN though it was 75% off for a total of $18.50! We are talking solid oak with glass doors, glass shelves…light…not one scratch. I’ll let Russ think he brought me to my senses, but the truth is it would not match my other woods in the dining room. Do you see now why I am soooo crazy about garage sales and estate sales? There is no excuse for not having beautiful “stuff” surround you!
So I did the final wack ’em mums, washed the dining room walls and windows, threw stuff away I had not used in a year and shazam! What is unbelievable is that I looked around and discovered that I’m really getting near my goal of getting my life in order…oh, in the HOUSE. Geez, for a moment I got a little arrogant, and repented lest God would overhear me. HE directs my paths.
Ok, I’m back on course. We have been married 10 years and have never been fully unpacked yet. I recently found a rubbermaid container in the barn I had brought to the marriage. It was never missed all these years, so in the trash it went! And I have been purging each room for over a year now. I can proudly say I have had the most equipped kitchen in town, well, except for Karen Petree, who is wickedly now turning me on to all these new rechargeable battery gadgets…ok Russ took over the apple peeler….but all this “stuff” took up room,so much so that counter top appliances found their way into my dining room credenza which caused me to have to move my dishes into a hutch I had to repaint, which caused me to have to wallpaper a wall..and then more “stuff” made it’s way into the garage metal cabinet, not to be confused with the mop closet in the kitchen that hub side-kick converted into a pantry just for counter top appliances. For Pete’s sake I have 2 turkey cookers on top of OTHER cabinets in the garage and pop corn poppers on more shelves also in the garage!
It’s fair to say I am out of control! My friend Cindy came over and hauled off a truckload of purging again. I didn’t even remember we had some of the stuff we had. Good grief! So when I was really undecided about getting rid of something, I made a decision that I was not EVER going to cook that food again. This is what I mean by working to get my life in order. I don’t want to leave a mess should I pass before my husband and my kids have such busy lives, why leave all this “stuff” for my #1daughterconnie to complicate her life with?
Saturday I wrapped Christmas gifts. September 1 is on the horizon, my “New Year”. It is what I looked forward to…all my adult life, for “me” time with ALL 4 kids going off to school, the air crispy with expectations and ME being able to get my house clean and organized AGAIN!
