Claire
Master Chef
I definitely have messie tendencies; I can never see the point of putting away something I know I'm going to use in the immediate future -- in other words, the several books I'm currently reading will NOT be in the book case, but on the table by whatever piece of furniture I'll be sitting or lying on when I pick it up again. Whatever projects I have going will NOT be cleaned up between efforts at it (i.e., laundry will be all over the laundry/bath/utility room, in sorted piles until it is all clean; my beadwork tables and pallette will be out on the table I use for that project until I'm done with it, ditto sewing). Picking up between stabs at working on something just doubles the amount of work I have to do.
ON THE OTHER HAND, maybe because I've moved so often in my life, every year I look over possessions, if I haven't used/worn something in a year, unless it is seasonal, it goes to trash or Goodwill. I hate having garage sales, but when I've had to, I arrange for pickup immediately after by whatever charity does pickups. I don't know how many times I've arrived at a new home to look at a box of stuff (there always seems to be a box of stuff, you know those odds and ends that defy catagorization) or even what I thought were possessions I could not part with, only to find myself wondering why I brought it with me on the move. Clothes that were more worn out than I remembered, etc. Yes, I do occasionlly find myself thinking, gee I could have used that whatchamicallit that I threw/gave away a couple of years ago. BUT ... not very often, certainly not often enough to change my ways.
I have a friend who calls me her hero for my ability to throw away the unnecessary. I even converted my once-junk-collecting husband to my ways (exactly why DID he need 4 pairs of combat boots when the chances of him needing them again were fractional, and if he did, the Army would have issued him more?).
ON THE OTHER HAND, maybe because I've moved so often in my life, every year I look over possessions, if I haven't used/worn something in a year, unless it is seasonal, it goes to trash or Goodwill. I hate having garage sales, but when I've had to, I arrange for pickup immediately after by whatever charity does pickups. I don't know how many times I've arrived at a new home to look at a box of stuff (there always seems to be a box of stuff, you know those odds and ends that defy catagorization) or even what I thought were possessions I could not part with, only to find myself wondering why I brought it with me on the move. Clothes that were more worn out than I remembered, etc. Yes, I do occasionlly find myself thinking, gee I could have used that whatchamicallit that I threw/gave away a couple of years ago. BUT ... not very often, certainly not often enough to change my ways.
I have a friend who calls me her hero for my ability to throw away the unnecessary. I even converted my once-junk-collecting husband to my ways (exactly why DID he need 4 pairs of combat boots when the chances of him needing them again were fractional, and if he did, the Army would have issued him more?).
