Office Work.......

[ksacres]

I've gotten a lot better. I give total credit to my dh for that. He's willing to help me go through stuff, and take stuff immediately to the goodwill or trash before I change my mind. We actually have less "stuff" than most people, probably because I know it's a problem so we keep an eye on it.

My house would never look like the ones you see on hoarders though, my dh would leave me LOOONG before that happened.

I have seventy some pairs of shoes and two closets of clothes (plus a full dresser) though. And seven crock-pots.

Things that have gotten better:

Lotions/perfumes, I used to have literally CASES of stuff. Now I'm allotted a certain amount of space for this stuff and I CANNOT buy anymore unless there is room in my space.

Clothes, I used to have not only closets full, but big storage totes full of clothes from as far back as MIDDLE SCHOOL. Every time I buy a new piece, I have to get rid of an old piece.

Food, I had a pantry full, plus all of our cabinets (and we had a LOT of cabinets in our house) were all FULL of food. We lost a lot of it during our move-it was in storage and got ruined. DH FORBID me to replace it all. It also helped that we no longer had the money to buy that much food.

Papers, I had homework and whatnot saved from as far back as middle school as well. I finally burned it all. Some paperwork I haven't been able to let go of, even though it has no use whatsover-like the pedigrees of my first goats, kidding records, milk records, that kind of thing. Someday soon I'll throw it away.

 

[ksacres]

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Don't encourage her...

 

[dacjohns]

Better go get three weeks worth of mail from the mailbox.

 

[Orchid]

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I may have done that.

Once in highschool on summer break I worked at a manmade beach and did concessions and managed to burn my arm on the fry basket leaving the imprint burnt into my skin and my boss told me that I could f* up a wet dream. What? You think I'm that much accident prone? My dad called me a walking disaster but I re-named myself Beautiful Disaster like the song.

I could have sworn you are female. Kind of hard for you to mess up that kind of dream.

And oh, so true!

 

[Orchid]

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I live to get rid of stuff, I swear. My house is very Scandanavian, it's not cluttered at all and we have very little in the way of knick-knacky type stuff...less and less all the time, in fact. I find that the older I get, the less I value "stuff" and the more I value experiences. I can't have experiences if I spend all my money and time on stuff!

 

[ksacres]

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It will be great, you'll see! I never made anything that didn't come out of a box or a can before I married my dh. It was a learning curve for both of us; his was tolerance for poor food, while mine was cooking itself...

I cook dinner pretty much every night when dh is home. I still use processed foods once in a while (dh LOVES Velveeta), but I try to mostly make some form of lean protein and veggies.

 

[maple]

My boss, Norb...he sat there and drank "coffee" with the camping parties...the ones that stayed there all summer. Except I was to fill thier cups of coffee with something special from the silver thermos. One of the camping parties...or well call him Grandpa Chauncy asked me if I had a licence to sell weinies (as in hot dogs.) I'm sure that's what he meant. He also offered me a grand to do something with his. I was repulsed to say the least. But I guess an offer like that works for some.

 

[NellaBean]

I have some of that hoarder stuff going on here. Hence the CHICKENS. I watch those Hoarders shows a lot.....they keep me in line! Don't get me wrong, my house is not bad......But I tend to go overboard. If 5 chickens are good, how about 105! That is why i have been downsizing....it got out of control fast.

I was laughing earlier realizing that its like Noah's Ark over here. I have pairs of everything. 2 rabbits, 1 boy and 1 girl. 2 cats, 1 boy and 1 girl. 2 old dogs, 1 boy and 1 girl. 2 young dogs, 1 boy and 1 girl.

I crack me up.

 

[NellaBean]

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It will be great, you'll see! I never made anything that didn't come out of a box or a can before I married my dh. It was a learning curve for both of us; his was tolerance for poor food, while mine was cooking itself...

I cook dinner pretty much every night when dh is home. I still use processed foods once in a while (dh LOVES Velveeta), but I try to mostly make some form of lean protein and veggies.

I have horrible eating habits. Horrible!

I will steam some veggies to go with dinner and make some crescents rolls. Laree talking about those things made with crescent rolls made me buy a few tubes. YUM.

 

[Orchid]

After I cleaned out the pantry and was disgusted by how much food I threw away, I started planning our meals weekly before we grocery shop; we waste a lot less food that way. On this week's menu is tacos, chicken with baked sweet potatoes, homemade beef stew, egg, ham and cheese English muffins, and orange-soy porkchops with pasta carbonara. I love to cook in the winter...summer we tend to eat whatever DH throws on the grill.