I’m a Butterfly!
Photographed by Rosemary Augustine at Chanticleer in 2012
March 29, 2018: Since the first day of spring, I have been de-cluttering – my entire home. I first decided to purchase a competitor’s journal course on de-cluttering. Well, as much as I love to journal, by day 7 I was tired of constantly being asked “how do you feel about such and such” Ha! Damn it. Give me some motivation to start purging, and what to purge other than spend a 10 minute burst each day doing … something. I don’t need to organize my clutter, I need to take a serious look at purging, donating, selling and re-assigning my “real estate” in my home.
After day 7 of the de-cluttering journal course, no way was I going to continue to day 21. Though I did skip ahead and sure enough by day 20 the author was still asking me “how did I feel.” Day 21 sped me through what to do with my clutter. Later that day I was online buying books (not related to de-cluttering) and came across “Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-free in 15 minutes a day” by Cassandra Aarssen. Let me tell you, just the opening chapter sold me. This woman is a genius! She has a questionnaire in the very beginning that determines the type of organizing that suites your style (you style of cluttering). By the 3rd or 4th question, she had me pegged. I’m a Butterfly! And butterflies do best using vertical wall space, color coding and drawer dividers. Oh my! My de-cluttering has accelerated, and I’m organizing up a storm. I’m purging unwanted items too. And the journaling course was left in the dustbin.
If you have more “stuff” than you really want, or just don’t know what to do with it, do yourself a favor and buy this book. I purchased it as an eBook for $4.99 and had it delivered to my Kindle. Although Amazon jumps the price up and down, it was the best $4.99 I ever spent.
Meanwhile, I went dark on Facebook. When I went to deactivate my account, I was given the option to assign someone else to be the administrator of Ziggy’s Secrets. So, I’m in search since that’s the one page that made me so sad to give up Facebook. I changed all my settings, blocked many settings, and logged out, so I’m off for now. I’ve had to change my password three times just this month alone because of somebody trying to access my account. I just need to think about who should handle posts for Ziggy’s page.
Hard to believe we are at the end of the first quarter of 2018, aka 1Q18. Hope you’re still working your New Year’s Resolution(s), and if not, hope you are at least doing something fun. Enjoy the spring blooms and warming temps.
Have a wonderful Easter and watch out for all the bunnies.
Love and Hugs,
Rosemary
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