I have cleaned ALL THE THINGS

[telophase]

Well, not "cleaned" so much as "defuckingcluttered" and not "all the things" so much as my office, the media room, and a couple of really sad corners in our master bedroom that had been piling up for a number of months.

For months I'd just been piling "things that go in my office" on the table in there, plus on the floor in front of it when the piles got so tall they were threatening the cats, and had been sick of it. December 31st, I decided that if I cleaned up all the places in the house that need cleaning, I could relax and read books without guilt until I had to go back to work on Jan 3rd.

Naturally, I then went into a 3-day-long decluttering binge and read absolutely zero books. At least the house looks the best it has since we moved in?

(I also need to declutter the hell out of my office closet and the master closet. But at least the visible parts of the house look pretty damn good.)

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[alexseanchai]

WOOT WOOT

[telophase]

:)

My husband also got the bug and is now planning to tear his office apart and rearrange.

[movingfinger]

Go you!

I find I start "accumulating" when I get ambiguous-destination things, like cables there isn't a drawer for or papers for which I don't yet have a properly-labeled folder (put them in the wrong one and they get lost!). Then a stack starts...

[telophase]

There was a chunk of that sort of thing, plus a bunch of books and art supplies I hadn't put away. And a few boxes of family things from my grandfather and from my mom, who's downsizing in prep for moving out of her house at some point in the nebulous future (she's got her name down on a waitlist for an apartment in a retirement community because she's tired of taking care of a house).

So once I stuffed the family things and half the art supplies in the closet, it overflowed and I had to find a couple of other places for art supplies. I need to go through them and get rid of the ones I'm no longer using.

[brigdh]

Whooo, congratulations! I need to go on this sort of spree myself.

[telophase]

Thanks! I even did adult things and tidied up yesterday while Toby was making dinner! It's been a week and the house still looks good! We'll see how long this actually lasts!