I'm trying to organize my bedroom. I no sooner clean out one area when there's ten times more stuff to find room for. The trouble is there is just too much that I can't part with. Books I haven't read yet. Magazines I want to keep. Videos and tapes to organize.
I worked on it last night but I got tired so I left it and just crawled into bed and went to sleep. Now I have a nice big pile of magazines and catalogues in the middle of my floor to deal with.
I will get to it. Sometime. I will. Really.
8 comments:
Hi Elaine,
My sister gave me the best piece of de-cluttering advice once: you need to make a decision with paper the second it lands inyour hand. That way, it never really accumulates. After a few months, I usually just chuck all the magazines and newspapers out.
-AM
Hi Elaine,
Your post reminded me of George
Carlins parody.Did you ever see
this before?
George Carlin - A place for my stuff
Actually this is just a place for my stuff, ya know? That's all, a little place for my stuff. That's all I want, that's all you need in life, is a little place for your stuff, ya know? I can see it on your table, everybody's got a little place for their stuff. This is my stuff, that's your stuff, that'll be his stuff over there.
That's all you need in life, a little place for your stuff. That's all your house is: a place to keep your stuff. If you didn't have so much stuff, you wouldn't need a house. You could just walk around all the time. A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. You can see that when you're taking off in an airplane. You look down, you see everybody's got a little pile of stuff. All the little piles of stuff.
And when you leave your house, you gotta lock it up. Wouldn't want somebody to come by and take some of your stuff. They always take the good stuff. They never bother with that crap you're saving. All they want is the shiny stuff. That's what your house is, a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get...more stuff! Sometimes you gotta move, gotta get a bigger house. Why? No room for your stuff anymore.
Did you ever notice when you go to somebody else's house, you never quite feel a hundred percent at home? You know why? No room for your stuff. Somebody else's stuff is all over the goddamn place! And if you stay overnight, unexpectedly, they give you a little bedroom to sleep in. Bedroom they haven't used in about eleven years. Someone died in it, eleven years ago. And they haven't moved any of his stuff! Right next to the bed there's usually a dresser or a bureau of some kind, and there's NO ROOM for your stuff on it. Somebody else's s--- is on the dresser. Have you noticed that their stuff is s--- and your s--- is stuff? God! And you say, "Get that s--- offa there and let me put my stuff down!"
Sometimes you leave your house to go on vacation. And you gotta take some of your stuff with you. Gotta take about two big suitcases full of stuff, when you go on vacation. You gotta take a smaller version of your house. It's the second version of your stuff. And you're gonna fly all the way to Honolulu. Gonna go across the continent, across half an ocean to Honolulu. You get down to the hotel room in Honolulu and you open up your suitcase and you put away all your stuff. "Here's a place here, put a little bit of stuff there, put some stuff here, put some stuff--you put your stuff there, I'll put some stuff--here's another place for stuff, look at this, I'll put some stuff here..." And even though you're far away from home, you start to get used to it, you start to feel okay, because after all, you do have some of your stuff with you.
That's when your friend calls up from Maui, and says, "Hey, why don'tchya come over to Maui for the weekend and spend a couple of nights over here." Oh, no! Now what do I pack? Right, you've gotta pack an even SMALLER version of your stuff. The third version of your house. Just enough stuff to take to Maui for a coupla days. You get over to Maui--I mean you're really getting extended now, when you think about it. You got stuff ALL the way back on the mainland, you got stuff on another island, you got stuff on this island. I mean, supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.
You get over to your friend's house on Maui and he gives you a little place to sleep, a little bed right next to his windowsill or something. You put some of your stuff up there. You put your stuff up there. You got your Visine, you got your nail clippers, and you put everything up. It takes about an hour and a half, but after a while you finally feel okay, say, "All right, I got my nail clippers, I must be okay." That's when your friend says, "Aaaaay, I think tonight we'll go over the other side of the island, visit a pal of mine and maybe stay over." Aww, no. NOW what do you pack? Right--you gotta pack an even SMALLER version of your stuff. The fourth version of your house. Only the stuff you know you're gonna need. Money, keys, comb, wallet, lighter, hanky, pen, smokes, rubber and change. Well, only the stuff you HOPE you're gonna need.
Ha ha. George Carlin is great.
Hi Elaine,
I know your predicament with the "stuff". My problem is that I will clear it out and then it comes back in a week.
I loved Mike S.' post. I seen George Carlin do that bit on television. He's a nut.
Take care
Zoe
P.S. Thanks so much for the birthday wishes. That was so sweet of you to stop by.
Hi fellow sitter,
Congrats to you as well. Now there will be a Method to our madness. :)
-AM
Hi Elaine,
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
We always seem to have too much stuff and not enough room for it all.
Way funny comment by Mike. George is one of the funniest men on the planet. He knows his stuff.
Peace, love and light,
Ric
I cleaned up my room today...got rid of tons of clothes! Yesss, it's cleaner now!
Hi Elaine,
Ha,ha, good luck with your bedroom..it's always terrible to organize it...It happens the same to me.
I'm glad that you liked the photos, thank you very much.
Elena
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