BarbWired

I like stuff.  Lots of stuff.  It goes without saying, if I like it, I’ll never throw it away. One look at my house, and you would immediately know this about me.  Now if I could just find a way to organize all my stuff without having to get rid of any of it, I’d be tickled pink.  The first thing we’d have to do is build an addition on to the house.  Although I suppose I could just store stuff in the build-ins upstairs… no that won’t work, they’re already full of stuff.  Yep – we need an addition.  I need a huge bookcase for my cookbooks alone.  I can’t remember when my fascination with cookbooks began, but it’s outta control now.  At least I’m not tempted by the “Books Are Fun” displays at work anymore.  I could always count on wanting at least one new cookbook from them every month. 

Just recently, I spent an hour at a book store looking for a specific cookbook that I thought would be helpful with the dieting.  And even though I didn’t find it, I bought two other cookbooks.  A few days later, I found the original cookbook I was looking for….. in my own collection.  If that’s not a good reason for getting my cookbooks organized, I don’t know what is.  

And then there’s the clothes.  People!  I seriously have a problem here.  My dresser drawers are full.  My closet is full.  (Ok – not really – but it was till I cleaned it out)  AND I have multiple laundry baskets AND rubbermaid totes overflowing with clothes in my basement (where I do the laundry)  Oh, and a bunch of clothes hanging off the water pipes too.  There is no organization to any of it.  Ooh – I did just clean out and organize my underwear and sock drawers.  If I bring up enough clothes to fill the closet, you probably wouldn’t even notice it in the basement.  And the really sad thing is most of it doesn’t even fit me right now.  At least not comfortably.  Once I drop another 10 lbs or so, that will help a lot.  And some of them are from the last time I lost weight, so they’ll have to wait till I drop 40 lbs.