Where Did I Put It?

Been trying to organize much of my house, throw out, label, throw out, etc.  Orderliness is a state of being we all need. The anti-clutter is a good thing, it simplifies.  I believe this to be true and am aiming to get to that state.  However, I also know from my years of experience that just living in our society brings in much clutter.  Try picking up your daily mail for starters.

Paper coming into a household, even the necessary papers, start to build a paper mountain.  And keeping the info on the computer doesn’t make this vanish, because we all know that the computer fails and ‘poof’, there goes the works!  It isn’t all paper either that wants keeping.   Just “stuff” from living, the ancestor heirlooms of one type or another, the sentimental memory objects from our past,  our collections that are part of the definition of who we are…..and on and on.

  I do think I am making progress.  Some of you are blessed with organization talents.  I think that is not me.  I didn’t bring that talent with me to this earth, I am trying to learn.  Me and my activities, that part I can schedule just fine, the stuff, not so much.  Now I am attempting to remember where I put this or that in this latest organizing process.  My husband asks me where thus and such is, and I can’t remember.  When I had organized chaos I knew where things were. 

That isn’t the way it is supposed to work.  The articles, books, etc. on the need of organizing, simplifying and such, say that doing this will bring peace and contentment.  Frustrations from searching for something should vanish, smiles appear and life turns into smooth sailing.  That is what the organization gurus all claim.  When does this happen?  Will I have to wait until I manage to get every room in the hoped for organized state?

I am  now telling myself that it is just a new learning experience supposedly good for my aging mental capacities, if they do not drive me to the point of escape first.  Perseverance is my theme for this spring cleaning binge.  I know this isn’t temporary, it will be spring, summer, and on into the future---- once “done,” it needs constant vigilance to keep from lapsing back into past habits, etc.