Tonight was a do-nothing, go-nowhere night. Many of them has been of late. It's nice, but it's also wearing on me. I am feeling like I'm getting lazy... Derby was the one thing that kept me going, going, going all week. However, I didn't know how to balance that with my daily life and I feel I neglected the apartment and the kids to some extent. Time for a new year and a new Cindy (aka Cynnister)! But how do I go about this?
Step 1: Pare down.
I canceled NetFlix. I canceled World of Warcraft. I am selling off my DVDs. The first two will save money and time and the third is to reduce the amount of clutter in my home. If you haven't read it, I love the mnmlst blog (in my links) and in particular his desire to pare down to a paltry 50 items (counting ever piece of clothing, every book, every thing). So my quest begins to pare down to 200 items. I will have to count every single thing I own. This should be fairly easy, since I will be starting to pack things up to move to a new place by the end of February.
Wow, even 200 sounds like a small amount.
I know I can do this. I also plan to help my boys pare their things down as well to just those items they love and want to keep. Once we're in the new place I will help them each bring their items to 100 in each of their rooms. I have faith that we can acheive anything we put our minds to and we can lighten our burden if we put our minds to reducing clutter.
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