Decluttering

I love the blog A Slob Comes Clean, and I'm starting out on Flylady with some friends. I love being able to find tons of ideas on the internet and then mix them all together to find what works for me.

I have a reminder over my sink to make sure all my dishes are done every night.


I've been working on decluttering (again!) and I've found a way to cut back on all the paper clutter. I have always saved tickets and programs from every play, movie, etc. I've seen. They fade and I have an awful lot of them by now. I finally realized I don't need the actual ticket for the memory - I can take a picture! So now as I find piles of tickets, I take a picture and toss them.

It works for invitations too...

...and old cassette tapes! I used to love singles, because they were affordable and I could get the song I loved plus a couple more. I finally convinced myself to toss tons of tapes, because I already had the full album on CD or the computer, or I can find the song on the internet if I really want to hear it again.

That bottom one is one of my home-recorded mixes. Remember when you were a teenager and had tons of time to sit by your boombox with your hand poised on the record button, waiting for a song to come on the radio that you wanted to record? I had them labeled by mix # (they were indexed somewhere) and a rating code so I'd know if the entire tape was completely acceptable to play where a parent could hear, or if there was a song that might have slightly questionable lyrics. HA! Those "questionable" lyrics are nothing like what's out there now. I feel old.

Anyway, those are some of my current projects.