I also have a mother who doesn’t keep anything…reads the paper, immediately walks it out to the garbage. Buys something she likes, enjoys it for awhile, gets rid of it when she finds something she likes better and replaces it. Usually sends it to me and then if she comes over she looks at it and asks why I still have it! So I suppose I come by clutter busting naturally. I figure that if I will miss it, I’ll take a photo and put it in an album or a scrapbook and write a story about it so I can remember it.

I feel for you, I shed a lot of tears trying to help my Dad. I feel so badly for the people shown struggling out of their messes, I can sympathize because I’ve felt my father’s frustration and tried to be as gentle and understanding as I could while also trying to help him work through the disaster his house had become. And in the end, we did put a solid dent into it. I left him with a tidier house, but one that still had way too much “stuff” and we ended up doing it all over again when he moved. But my brother then got to deal with the majority of that.

The flip side is that I can spend so much time organizing things that I don’t get other things done. Pick your poison! Either way, in today’s busy consumer-oriented world, it’s hard.

Thanks for visiting, good luck and cheers,
Paige

I’m not a hoarder, but I’m chronically disorganized to an uncomfortable degree. I hope someday I can be as confident and consistent in my clutter busting as you are.

Cheers!
Jessica