Category: Decluttering
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How did this happen?
I don’t think I’ve presented myself as some advanced de-clutterer. I’m not! The move certainly sped things up and concentrated my efforts. But the underlying conditions can creep up again. I was messy Mesi after all. I often had trouble figuring out what to do with the papers and things to come my way. Having…
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Why do you do it, Baby?
A song is playing in the cafe I’m in with that refrain. A low, bluesy tune that I don’t recognize; yet the refrain is apt for this post. There is a lot of decluttering content available out there, so why one more blog? My goal is to be able to provide a view into decluttering…
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Consistency
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash “Lord, give me patience, and give it now!” is a wry saying I’ve heard. For me, a more apt version of that is “Give me consistency, and give it every day!”. Lack of consistency has been an obstacle my entire life. As a young adult, knowing I had the…
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Self-Care Recipe
Last week, I finally watched the wonderful 2019 movie about Mr. Rogers, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, with Tom Hanks and the excellent Matthew Rhys as journalist Lloyd Vogel. I had heard it was good but not really more about it. A hard-hitting journalist is given the unwanted task to interview Fred Rogers for…
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Late, Again
13 fevereiro 2023 I’m late to something, again. I’m bad at planning and can get lost even with a GPS guided map in my hand. I finally find the cafe, down a tiny winding street, at last aided by the helpful logo outside. It looks like this is the writer’s group, six people all writing…
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Self-Care Intro
Well, I thought I was going to write a post about some of the small things that are different from life in the USA. Just little oddities that pop up. But the tagline of the blog, Journey through Simplicity and Self Care to Joy, has been rolling around in my brain, nagging at me. That…
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Shopping Madness
The apartment that we are renting is partially furnished. In this case, it has beds, armoires, bookshelves, and a dining table with chairs. In the kitchen, there was a stove, but we supplied the fridge and the washing machine. That’s it! And the beds… really uncomfortable. So we are basically starting from scratch. This may…
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Two Pallets
The stack of boxes and bins above is close to the footprint of one of the two pallets we are shipping to Portugal. Aside from what we take on the plane, the two pallets will hold all our belongings. So basically what you see in the picture, plus another layer of two bins. Then double…