Cheerfulness is a great start to the week. My 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge is making things cheerful around here ~ my home, my family and me rejoice. Read my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Manifesto!!
A Recovering Magpie’s Cheerfulness
I am mostly cheerful. It is not something I need to think about or even practice, I just am. HIMself, not so much. I guess we balance each other out as I am always ready for a new adventure, ready to dance and ready to sing out loud!! He would prefer not to! I am the ENFP to his INFJ.
My 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge is a prime example of this ying and yang. I have found and experienced it with gusto, after my initial grieving period. He looks at it as labor to be done, out with it, gone! His get ‘er done attitude has, on occasion, run afoul of my cheerfulness. It somehow resolves itself and my bubbly nature returns.
{Coming clean} I joined the Secret Society of Happy People today!
My Summer Simplifying Challenge
I guess I just love a good challenge and the Summer Simplifying Challenge has proved to be just that! I took stock of the remaining boxes yesterday. Most are small and should be an easy task to perform. That makes me smile and how far we have come and how few boxes we have left.
On the other hand, my 90-Day Summer Simplifying Challenge will require some work on the collections, the art supplies and the things that remain under my sink. How do we amass such vast quantities of stuff under our bathroom and kitchen sinks?
Remember when I spoke of the packs of bobby pins I had saved since my son’s wedding in 2004. He and his wife just celebrated their 10th Anniversary in June and I still have those bobby pins in my possession. I tried to rid myself of them…I really did. I had a long conversation with myself as I stood there thinking I could use them to tame the wild haircut my stylist gave me last time. I used them…I really did.
You see, or maybe could see, my Mother all wrapped up in those bobby pins. She would say, “You might need them someday.” The practical side of me often agrees to those voices of reason. Perhaps they are voices of unreason. Nonetheless, they give me an out if I really want to hold on to something.
So I have started a “Hold for 6 Months” box. Yes another box. This box contains things I really don’t use regularly but are too good to toss because I might need them someday. If, at the end of 6 months, I have not retrieved them from the HOSM box, I promise to move them to the outta here box. I placed a date on each item and a date on the top of the box. I set a reminder on my calendar to check the box. Is that organized?
Today’s Accomplishments
- One box, sorted and things placed into the ‘outta here’ boxes!
- The house is clean and orderly.
Today’s Setbacks
- We took a drive to St. Augustine today and didn’t get much home work done. I needed the break! It contributes to my cheerfulness! 🙂
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