Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Easily discouraged!

So it's been over a month. I tried to figure out how to upload photos here and couldn't, so I got disgusted and gave up. I'm going to try again. I really want to upload "before" and "after" photos, as it will give me a good visual of my progress in clearing our clutter.


Billy's room

Billy's room



Above is Billy's old room. It's also the guest room. (Really cozy and comfortable if you can get to the bed.) A lot of the stuff is his, but most of it is ours. See the flowery wall paper? It was here when we moved in 29 years ago. I picked out a nice muted blue and pink wallpaper about 25 years ago, put some of it up, and it fell off the wall after a day. So I gave up. (I haven't even removed the "new" wallpaper."
Steve's room
Steve's room
 Above is Steve's old room. The boxes are from my office when I retired back in '07. Believe it or not, I really have made some progress, and have reduced the number of boxes by about five.
Library
Library

Library
  Above is our library. It is virtually (no, in reality) filled with clutter. My chair with my Mom's patchwork knit is in the background in the top photo, and that's where my computer and I reside. At least I got rid of the Bowflex machine about three years ago, and don't have to do nearly the contortions I used to to get to my chair.

Pantry
Pantry
 Above is the pantry. What a wonderful thing to have: a pantry! And we do use it for food and kitchen appliances (including the very expensive juicer I bought five years ago and have used twice), but it has so many other things as well, from boxes of unknown stuff to motorcycle helmets. I really want to set up seed-starting lights for this year's gardens, and can't do that until I make some room.


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