Life Happens

I haven't been able to work my plan to purge

my possessions in the last few weeks.

We've been too busy moving my in-laws to a

 smaller apartment in the assisted-living

section of their retirement community, which
will provide them with a higher level of care.

Instead of purging our stuff, we found ourselves

trying to purge their stuff instead.

Because both of his parents were in the hospital

at the time, Wild Bill and I decided to just buy a

ton of moving boxes and pack up everything that

we thought was just taking up space and not

necessarily "sparking joy" in their lives. That

meant we ended up with about 50 boxes

of the in-law's stuff in our garage.

Yeah...that's right...we are definitely headed

in the wrong purging direction at our house!

I am happy to say my daughter Jaysa really

took the book I recommended in my last post

to heart. She and I are 'storage experts' and, if

you remember, the author Marie Kondo states:

Storage Experts Are Hoarders!

At first Jaysa was taken aback by the thought
that her packed storage containers and shelves
were a way of hoarding. Fearing I'd insulted
her, I had Wild Bill order her the book, that
night, from Amazon with 2-day shipping.


 She got the book one day, read it the next,
and began purging "for real" right away. I say
"for real" because she has been purging stuff
for several weeks before reading the book, but
when she read about keeping only things that
sparked joy, she had a whole new focus.


Jaysa has been posting on her blog all the

progress she is making. Here's some pictures

I borrowed from her posts:
Here's the AFTER picture of her shelves...

I especially like how she purged and sorted her

movies. The ones she kept, she placed in paper

jackets and put in two storage boxes...

She even made perfect dividers, then filed

them alphabetically within the dividers!

See...I told you this book was life changing!

Here's Jaysa's post if you're interested
in seeing more of the pictures:
http://benthewildcard.blogspot.com/2015/04/purging-progres.html

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