More March madness

I'm trying to be very proactive these days. When I start feeling blue I try to do something, even a little thing to in someway improve our lives.

I'm trying very hard to let go of all of the objects that are tying us to the past. There are things of course that I want to keep. In fact there is quite a lot that I want to keep, but the reality is there is very little that I can keep. All this time it's all just been sitting in our old house rotting and waiting for someone to do something with it. I can't be in the house for long periods of time. I simply can't. But I can try to clear some stuff out when I am done there anyway, say while waiting for a pot of water to boil. My goal is to get rid of 200 things by the end of the month. I was going to shoot for 100, but that didn't seem like enough of a challenge.

So far I'm at 25 (10 yesterday, 15 today). I've been sorting through my pantry bit, by bit. Turns out I have three boxes of toothpicks, who knew? Yesterday I just did a quick sweep and grabbed all of the gluten containing items I could find to give to our neighbors. Today I started going through my clothes. I put aside a bunch of maternity clothes, yes a year later. And I tossed a bunch of clothes I never wear into a bag to be donated.

I've always loved the idea of spring cleaning, of fresh starts. I figure that if I get a bunch of organizing and de-cluttering out of the way now, then I will have earned some time in the garden when spring actually comes.