Day 25: Craft Room: 12 x 12 paper completed!

2/26/16

Finally completed going through the scrapbook paper.  

I vow to use what I've got, and not buy any 12 x 12 paper or small paper packs for a year at least!

I gave away a huge box of 12x12 paper to London Bridge Baptist Scrapbook Ministry.

Arnost Fantl "Never try to have too much of anything in life; just what you need and a little more. When you die, all you will take with you is what you have given to other people." 

Day 8: Papers continued...

6/16 Papers continued:

Good News: I Love my closet now! I go in and only the clothes I like are inside ~ no more wondering if it fits, and no more time wasted looking at unworn clothes that make me unhappy etc.  I'm reaping the discarding benefits already!!
Bad News: I'm allergic to dust and the paper in the filing cabinet in the garage gave me a wicked allergy fit!  I've got one more basket in the kitchen to do, and the garage will have to be given over to hubby to dissect.  Most of it is garbage I'm sure since I haven't needed anything in it for over 10 years.
More Good News: my husband burned 25 years worth of useless statements in the fireplace tonight!
More Bad news: We have a huge pile of ashes that need to be cleaned out of the fireplace!! you have to take the good with the bad ~

Thanks for reading ~ Hope your laughing along with me! I would love to know your thoughts, so please comment if you can and let me know if you've read the book and are decluttering too.

I'm not done with the paper in my home, but between what my husband wants to handle himself, and the memento part of paper, I'm going to move on to what Marie refers to as Komono (miscellaneous items) and I call "stuff".  Since I've got lot's of it, this may take some time!  The first on the list for tomorrow is CD's, DVD's and I still have VHS tapes (showing my age just a bit) ~
 

Day 7: Papers

2/4/16

My house isn't this bad, but I feel like it's a mountainous chore to go through papers.  My husband doesn't want me to mess with them, so my hands are tied except for the baskets in the kitchen and my old filing cabinet out in the garage.  

I've photographed my problem spots in the house and I'm hesitant to put it all in one spot to sort through it because I think I know what it is, and where it is right now.  I'm going against Marie's advice and I'm working on discarding right where it's at and I'll have to come up with a better organizing system after to keep it all in one place.  I'm working on cutting up old membership cards, store discount cards, expired coupons, expired medical cards, receipts, and garbage so far.  I actually just found a cat toy manual! ~ really ~ Ugh, the things we end up sticking in a basket is kind of crazy!
I completed discarding from 4 baskets worth of paper stuff.   I opened the filing cabinet in the garage and got lost in a binder of collected (and forgotten) postage stamps from the early 90's.  I will continue this paper quest tomorrow.
P.S. If your working on this method, let me know how it's going for you, I'd love to have company on this journey!