Couldn't we all use a little help with our stuff? I know I needed it when I read an article in 1999 about a lady who had struggled with keeping her home together. The web site is Flylady.net. She has a book Sink Reflections. In it she details her transition to an organized home. Routines are her main theme. I can tell you from experience, it works. She also has a plan for getting through Christmas with ease.
One of her sayings is:"You can't organize clutter". And you really can't, even with all those color coded tabs and plastic boxes. It is still clutter. After all how much is enough? Isn't this Thanksgiving/Christmas season about all we have and giving? Maybe it is time to look at our stuff and rethink what we need. Maybe we could organize our closet, if we had less in there. Maybe we should look around at all those who have nothing. Surely we could spare something to help them. Just because we have always had 3 or 4 coats doesn't mean we have to keep them.We could give to someone who doesn't have one, after all it is winter.
I don't know what your situation is but I can bet you have some things you could let go of this year in order to bless someone and start to get organized. I know I do. Tomorrow I am going to start the search. I am going to listen to these things as they cry: "Please release me, let me go". Less is really more. Less to wash and iron, if you still do. Less to clean and way less to store. I know some people who have three storage sheds. Wow! Imagine all the blessings just waiting to happen there!!
You may not think this topic goes with the ThriftySissy blog name, but believe me thrifty people are generous people. There is available money or things because they have been thrifty.
Happy Thriftying This Thanksgiving !!!
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