A place for everything

Let’s just say that today I felt a little bit like I was living in an episode of the TV Show “Hoarders: Buried Alive” and it was staring me as the hoarder.  We are talking stacks and stacks of boxes full of things that had been piling up the last 10 years.  I was unpacking box after box only to turn around and find duplicates of the same thing somewhere else It felt like such a waste to have carried the boxes over only to then find that same item here in the apartment. If I had I just taken the time to organize myself prior to the move I would have been able to avoid loading a good majority of the boxes at all!  But as typically happens, I would have piles of items I needed to go through over the years and I would think to myself “I will get to that later”….yeah, well, apparently 10 years later!  

So, after a grueling 24 hours of opening boxes I should tell you that I have finally learned a valuable lesson – Keep your home clean and organized always! Throw things away that are not important to keep! If something is important enough to keep then file it away or organize it in plastic bins and label them so that everything in your house has a place.  If something is worn out, throw it away! Don’t be a hoarder.  Because if you are then one day when you have to move to a new home you will seriously regret it more than you can ever imagine.  So save yourself the pain and suffering by simply getting organized now and then staying organized as you move forward.

It is an amazing feeling to be organized.  As much work as this move is for us I am in awe of how it feels as we are starting to get through the boxes and piles and getting the trash thrown out and finding a proper place for the things that are important to keep.  As each box is unpacked and sorted through and put into its proper place it is like a huge weight coming off my shoulders. I can only imagine how good it will feel when the last box is finally emptied and everything will be in its place. Yay! 

Today’s advice:  Organize your life before you move!  Oh no, how I wish I would have done just that!  I wish I would have had the time to organize my life before I had to move into a new home.  I have been caring so much stuff for the past 10 years and it is absolutely unbelievable the amount of “stuff” a person can accumulate over 10 years.  

Tomorrow is another long day that I am certain will reinforce the lesson of the need to keep an organized home, so learn from my mistake and go clean and organize your homes this week… find a place for everything and put everything in its place!

Con amor,

Vero