I Think I am a Closet Hoarder.

Linda here:  I LOVE organization, tidiness and above all clean.  I am pretty good at the clean part but I am lousy at the other two.  Ok, you are probably thinking….Let’s see she has finally arrived in paradise reaching the destination we are likely to be at for at least 10 days to two weeks and day 2 she is talking about organization.  Well, today I got up while Rusty was still snoozing. I don’t want to make any noise so I get on the net.  Rusty and I have been following Bumfuzzle.com pretty much since they started 10 years ago with their sailing blog.  They now are RVing with their family but I still keep up with them.  They are touring in a 27 ft Dodge Travco van.  Now this is a family of four and Pat has redone it completely but it is neat as a pin with two kids.  I have at least twice as much space on this cat and it looks like someone turned it upside down and righted it.  I  “organize”, clean, “organize” and even when I feel it is “organized” it still looks messy.  I have been an avid consumer my entire life and have always liked my “stuff”.  When we sold the “big house” I did get rid of a lot of “stuff”  but apparently not enough.  Man, it is hard for me to let go of my “stuff”.   I recognize I will never be a minimalist and really don’t strive to be but I sure would like to live in less clutter.  It is just real hard for me to decided what is “clutter” and what is not.  Erin, my daughter, married a year ago and is now pregnant and she regularly asked me can she have such and such and I say……I don’t have it anymore.  She has said, “Please don’t give anything else away without asking me first”.  So here I am, in paradise and still trying to figure out how to declutter.   But in the big scheme of things………….it is not such a big problem.