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Our lives are but a scrapbook of experiences.
What picture would you add to your scrapbook today?
What does this image say about you?
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My addition would be a picture of my “library.” We dedicated this room to our books and yet once we got it usable it became a storage room for everyone to dump their stuff they didn’t want to deal with right now. You can’t even move in there. There are holiday decorations all over the place, boxes of stuff set aside for the spring rummage sale at church, and a new Billy Bookshelf from IKEA that I got for Christmas year before last — still in its box leaning up against the wall… Well, you get the picture.
What does it say about me? I dragged his nibs in there the other day and said, “See all this clutter? This room is a perfect example of how I feel inside my head.” My mind is cluttered and feels like a repository for everyone else’s junk (emotions, anger, etc.). I need to get that room organized. Maybe then my OWN mind won’t feel so much like refuse pile!
(Example only — not my room…)
What picture would YOU add, and why?
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Picture Sources:
Winnie — Pinterest.com
Room — Professional Organizer for Long Island, Suffolk, Nassau, Queens …
Impromptu Promptlings 
I’d say this song speaks to who and where I am right now
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I would add a pic of me covered in sticking plasters, because I feel like I’m patching up a lot of stuff that really needs to be sorted properly, when I get the time.
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Me, too! I move things from one space to another and then move them back again. SO fruitless!
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Decluttering and letting go of ‘stuff’ Literally and figuratively really does lighten the mind and soul … 😊
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We took 10 big packing boxes to the church’s rummage sale last fall. Time for act 2!
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As someone who has decluttered and downsized in a profound way, it really, really, really does help with the stress in dealing with a chronic illness and daily life. After going through the emotionality of getting rid of ‘things,’ I started to feel lighter and more able to deal with the clutter in my head. There seemed to be a parallel ‘shedding’ with my stuff and my mindset. It doesn’t work for everyone, but it has for me–and although I deal with an illness on a daily basis, it’s not made worse by all the things I let weigh me down before. I hope that makes sense. 🙂 This post was very well done. Wishing you many blessings!
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Oh how I hear you, Dawn! His nibs is the abuser in my family! How ARE you feeling, btw? Haven’t heard an update for awhile.
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Except for small breakthrough flares, I’m finally on a regimen which seems to be working (knock on wood, because as soon as I say something…..) and is keeping me mobile. I’m so incredibly grateful, too. I hope you are feeling much, much better also.
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Have had a few things going on as I’ve come off the prednisone. They tell me I’m having prednisone withdrawal!
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Please read my first post
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Fabulous post
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Thanks so much! Glad you liked it. 😀
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So right about stuff in rooms and in heads. Declutter. I would be easier to declutter the head if I would declutter the room first.
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So true. Must be a Feng shui thing!
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Quite a thought provoking blog Cheryl. Had a decluttering of my bedroom in January when I was more or less hibernating. Presently know where all my stuff is and ok ish with that. Just papers including magazines and journals to sort. I never seem to get time to sit and read a magazine. You have prompted me to shed them (put in bin) as ironically now I have made time I don’t feel like reading them. I find other things to do instead for example ruminating. While they are lying around the fact I am not doing anything with them is beginning to niggle.
What does all this say about me? I feel as though I have come to a stop in the road and don’t know which way to turn somehow (whew, where did that come from?)!
Thanks for allowing me the insight.
Take care & hope you are well 🙂
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That is an AWESOME observation, Margaret! I feel like that so much of the time lately, too…
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How’s that for synchronicity? Magazines etc in bin, what now? You never know what may happen!!
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