Last day of Month

This month has been a challenge but I made it through.  I have some space I never new about, found somethings I forgotten about, and made a safety move by clearing my steps which I never thought I would do.  I look forward to clearing and getting rid of things that I know I no longer need but know I may a need to keep.  Believe me its not easy but I'm taking it one day at a time.

More space More place

Today is Sunday and I've gone into the room I sleep in and filled 4 medium plastic bags of all kinds of papers, envelopes, magazines, letters, and pamphlets of all kinds that I have been saving over the years.
I sorted, trashed, and shredded what I knew was no longer needed.  It gave me a slight headache to do this because some things I felt I wanted to keep but knew I needed to throw away.  In the meantime I'm gaining more space to my place.

Clearing my Wallet

I didn't realize that I was carrying my hoarding around with me.  Today I looked at my wallet with a rubberband wrap around it and said to myself this is hoarding too.  I shared this with two people and they looked at my and just smiled but I knew deep inside that I just found out this was another form of hoarding.
I haven't empty my wallet yet but I know I have to.

Junk versus Trash

The last couple of days I've been gathering stuff such as old mail, papers, and anything off of one shelf at a time and putting all of this in one bag and sitting on the couch and going through it to see and know that I have to throw out what is not absolutely important.  Understand I have a battle at times with myself what is important.

Hidden papers,letters, and articles

The I  lost my last post but I'm going to repeat what I said.  The more I go around the house and find stacks of papers and magazines the more find I had hidden other stacks.  I'm pulling no punches and gathering each stack one at a time and getting rid of what is useless.  Its not easy but I'm determined becasue I see I have really piled books, papers, magazines, letters, articles, and notebooks everywhere in my home.  I do see space coming to light as I throw away unneeded items.

Useful and Useless

Today is Sunday and surrounded around me is papers that are useful and useless I didn't understand this before but I cannot stack both together and later hope they separate themselves.  Its taking time to sort these papers and throw out what is useless and understanding that it is mentally draining.  I want to stop and stack but I know that's not the way.  I'm determined.

Learned something

Today I learned that collecting napkins from eating places I frequent and taking extra paper from their restrooms was a part of my hoarding(not a good thing).
I'm going to curb that immdiately.

Coming to be aware

Looking around and seeing I have things that I need to get rid of in piles, stacks, and even in an order such as in sizes and shapes making me realize I need to address them.
Also finding out I don't need to move things from one place to another and not getting rid of nothing.
It is hard to tackle and admit to myself but each day I see a little more space and light.
I purchased three plants small ones to put in windows that I had nothing but junk in.

One drawer one shelf

Again I tackled papers, old letters, envelopes(that I had no idea what was in them), and more newspapers last night and it felt good to look at the space beginning to more look like shelves and places to put things instead of clutter.
I have in the dining room around my sitting area my shredders with a s and waste baskets for the next round.

Getting rid of more newspapers and junk papers

I went from room to room and started collecting papers that I have stacked in each room and in corners of the house that have just been sitting there and going through them and throwing away and sorting what I know I haven't looked at in months

Exposing my hoarding to others

Today is Monday and I shared with two people about my hoarding and how I was dealing with it.
I told them I realized it was a problem when I ended up with just pathways from the front door to the bedroom.
Tomorrow is Tuesday and I will tackle part of my basement.  I know it will be a chore but I'm ready

Shoes a-go-go and gone

Today is Sunday and I am still feeling a little bit of a lost.
Friday was trash pick up and I finally got rid of two pairs of shoes I can call house shoes that I would slip on that we're so old and torn up that I would stumble with them on.
I share with anyone who reads this that it wasn't easy to put them in the trash they were my favorites shoes

August search and discard

Hi everyone including me
This month is search and discard month
Yesterday I just knew where I placed some stamps I bought and went to that spot and found none
I looked everywhere I usually put them and found things I definitely need to throw away and discard completely
Tomorrow is trash day again and I'm getting rid of June reciepts
I will keep you all informed of my quest