Every year, I can’t wait to take down the christmas tree. I usually manage to wait until lunch is over on Christmas day, but then it comes down. This year, I had everything packed up by 2:00. Then I re-organized the whole basement storage area, the kid-clothing storage system and created a teeny playroom in the part of the house formally known as “the vestibule.”
I also cleaned out a friend’s office last week and forced my mom to let me have 30 minutes of decluttering fun in her basement. I am an organizing and purging force to be reckoned with, yo.
I started packing for the trip today too. I have been shopping and shopping and shopping. It turns out we need to take gifts for a number of family members and family friends in China and Taiwan. Buying these gifts is simply exhausting because I suspect there is a cultural weight to them that I don’t really understand. I don’t really know what these gifts might say about our relationship with these people. Also, they are hogging up a lot of valuable luggage real estate. Annoying.
It feels like we have too many balls in the air at the moment. I am hoping by the time we get on the plane, we will just be able to live in the moment for the duration of the trip without worrying about the minutia of every day life at home.
Big dreams. Big dreams.
Can you come help organize my house??? Wow, you’re leaving, in like, soon!!!! Don’t enjoy packing, especially with other people’s stuff. Good luck! Oh, and have a very happy new year, if you don’t post again.
I am in awe of your organizing skills, but, you took the tree down on Christmas Day?
I’d pay you to come to my house for a week.
When you come back from China & Taiwan, wanna come over to my house to declutter, I really need help and the bonus is:
I live in Italy !!
I am so with you on multiple counts. We had the decorations down and tree out a little later than usual–around 4. I have been cleaning out as well and I reorganized my entire holiday stock–around thirty bins. M and I went through all of her toys and clothes in her toy room and bedroom, as well as cleaned out her bathroom closet and under the sink–on to mine.
I have been struggling with the gift issues as well. May has mine with her as I write this and I am still hoping I am properly representing, you know what I mean.
Hope we can talk before you go.
I am struggling not to take the tree down, but perhaps I should just embrace the need to get it out of here.
I went downstairs one night last week to get a box for a gift and ended up cleaning down there for2 hours. Just took the HUGE pile of cardboard to the curb this morning. Felt sooo good. Still have lots to purge, but it felt good. This is the longest I’ve been in a house and things are starting to accumulate:(
Funny how children of hoarders don’t want any clutter:)