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September 29, 2020

I told you I could write about this everyday. I hope you like transitional rides, with lots of twists and turns, highs and lows, of refocusing your life. If so you are in the right place. I follow different blogs, programs and different things to do with organizing. I don’t follow it to a tee but I like the inspiration and ideas.

This morning I woke up and checked my email which was at zero last night when I went to bed. Follow up on that….I now have ten unread. I am going through them as they come in for the most part. I unsubscribed to five of them. As I get stronger I will to more of them. I also deleted ones I didn’t need to look at this time., Now that it is clean and less overwhelming. Before bed I will bring it down to zero again wether it is deleting, reading and then deleting, or filing. This is how I have to clean in my home, One little section at a time.

As I am cleaning I have to decide what collections mean the most to me right now. Which ones go with my current lifestyle and which ones I can live without. This is not an easy process because I love pretty unique things. I am particularly drawn to vintage and antique oddities.

I was collecting a lot of vases, mostly vintage USA McCoy and McCoy style pottery in all colors. I have been now streamlining this collection and only keeping certain colors. More about this later. One hint though, one of the colors are pink for one of the bathroom makeovers. I have also collected milk glass for a number of years, like when it was super cheap and everyone wanted to get rid of it. I use the majority of it in my studio. I like the clean white as containers for my paint brushes, scissors, pens and pencils. This summer I painted a dark blue wall in my living room. It is the perfect backdrop for it. This is the reason I had to downsize my McCoy.

So now you know. Sometimes my clean outs are for reasons to make room for other stuff I want more. For now that works for me and I call it win. This summer I have scored some nice additions to my milk glass. I shop garage sales, flea markets, antique stores and thrift stores. The above photos is some new pieces.

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September, 28, 2020

I could probably post on this subject everyday. I call myself a collector of sorts. My house is full of beautiful things. Some may call me a hoarder, yes my husband, but I am not. Really, I am not. So let’s go back to saying a collector of sorts, with procrastinator tendencies, save because I might need it and a large bit of sentimentality. Sometimes I call myself a very young looking survivor of the Great Depression. I had a great grandfather who I cherish who was a survivor of the Great Depression and an original Homesteader in Montana. He had so many treasures in his little dark work shed. I like to think it is his fault I collect.

Back to the subject of Cleaning Out! The tendency to keep stuff around flows into most aspects of my life. But I am in the process, which is long and hard, of working through my items clearing out both physical and mental clutter. Many things have brought me to this moment, I sure I will elaborate as time goes on. One reason though is this website. A refocusing of my time and attention. I always have a lot on my plate so to bring one thing in something else has to go out.

Today was a mental clean out. I had over 30,000 emails. most never opened. I knew this had to be done forever but totally procrastinated. It seems as of late I have to take things in small pieces to not fill with anxiety and get overwhelmed which then cripples me. I am finally learning things about myself. So today I deleted all of them. I figured 99 percent were probably useless and the 1 percent that may have not have been useless I will never know. So they are gone. A big fat 0. I had to do it this way because I could not validate any more time wasted on it The goal going forward is to read and delete, file important ones and unsubscribe to many.

Deep breath. Release. Another chunk of mental clutter gone.

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