Clutterless World?

I JUST moved another little bookshelf into my room tonight because my bed was looking like a collection point for various projects that I am working upon. AUUUUGGHGGGHHGHGHHH!!! :)

People of clutter normally come from families of clutter. It isn't normally necessarily a hereditary trait; but, rather, one that is learned through time.

For instance, I came from a upper middle class family with four children. Eventually, we had rooms of our own and my bedroom was a library claimed by me in an effort to get away from my sister 2-1/2 years younger than me. I had to have my own space; however, what other teenager girl could actually attest to having a victrola, Lionel Train Model Set (set up on a huge plywood foundation set up on some saw horses, a radio with vacuum tubes left exposed, an encylopedia, and a desk made out of a door placed on two file cabinets???? I would be surprised to find another soul who had a room like mine.

My room was actually placed over the double car garage, so it was certainly huge, which is why people would often say, "Where are we going to put this??? Well, just take it up to Kathy's room for now; we'll worry about it later." As a result, I also had a collection of wires and computer parts until my Dad set up a second tool shed to put all of his electronic "stuff".

Which is why when George Carlin did his comedian sketches I couldn't help but roll with laughter and seem to think that he was talking about me directly.

Well, I can see my bed again. I no longer feel, tonight, that I am sharing my bedspace with all of my project stuff, at the very least, since I have moved some of my cookbook stuff actually into the kitchen, and took the small bookshelf in the dining room and moved it into my bedroom to make it a center for my project stuff! :)

I am taking some of my stuff to the shelter so that I can work on some of my homework stuff for my classes so that I can only return later to move that stuff from my car to my apartment and find another niche for my stuff to remain -- until I will need to take some more stuff with me to the shelter where I work and repeat the whole sordid affair all over again!

What George Carlin never really did say was, if the sordid affair with all of our stuff ever ends; after, all we do take some of our stuff to the grave with us!!! ;)

More later....

K