I am the anti-packrat. I really don't get why people keep tons of stuff they will never use.
The problem with packrats (and I speak as one) is that the stuff we keep tons of is stuff we might want to use, some day, maybe. I've gotten better at discarding stuff I'm pretty sure I'll never use, but I've also got music in my collection I probably haven't listened to in over 20 years. Once the stuff piles up (especially in closets and boxes and such) the weeding process becomes a major undertaking (and often involves the distraction of rediscovery).
Once the stuff piles up (especially in closets and boxes and such) the weeding process becomes a major undertaking (and often involves the distraction of rediscovery).
Yep. "Hey, I forgot about this thing! Ooh, I may need this thing. I'll put it on the To Keep stack ..."
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My only problem with uncluttering websites/shows/experts is how they seem to tie uncluttering with superior spirtuality/morality/awareness. I know I've got too much junk, you don't need to start flinging aspersions at the state of my soul/psyche, too.
I hope this conversation will be with endocrinologist who actually listened to you about there being something going on with you.
Yeah, it will be. Not seeing the other one again.
I'm running out of things in my apartment to organize. I'm going to have to do math soon.
oh god we're counting music? OK I'm a packrat. And please pay no attention to that pile of poetry on tape that I've never even opened.
I'm a bit sceptical about what happens when you tell a doctor you are doing all the right things but not losing weight. I get a lot of, "If that is really what you are eating you should be losing weight," without any follow-up testing to find out why I'm not.
Weight loss (or weight, in general) is mysterious hoodoo that doesn't necessarily point to good stuff or bad stuff going on. A lot of times, your body knows what weight it wants to be and doesn't like to budge from that.
Yep. "Hey, I forgot about this thing! Ooh, I may need this thing. I'll put it on the To Keep stack ..."
Not only that (but so much that as well) but "Why did I keep this? I must have had a reason? I should probably keep it until I figure out why I kept it in the first place." Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
The instruction manual for the portable dishwasher we bought says to be sure to dishwashing detergent made for a portable dishwasher so that the suds don't overflow, but my googling is turning up nothing. Does anyone have experience with this?
My washing machine has the same requirement, and detergents formulated for front-loaders generally say "high-efficiency" or sometimes just "HE" somewhere on the box. You can also probably just use regular detergent, but much less of it.
WIth our impending move we (my mom and I) have been working hard to get rid of the "but we might need it" type stuff and only keep the things that are important to us. It has been hard and we have gotten rid of a ton. I'm sure when it comes time to settle in I'll have more anxiety about the things I ditched, but right now I am ready to pitch everything and start over (if only that wasn't so expensive).
I need to do a major closet purge soon. We have a TON of baby stuff that Dylan's outgrown, and while most of it is stuff we want to keep for Future Baby #2, it most definitely does NOT need to be taking up closet space when it could be downstairs in the cellar.
