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Tackle It Tuesday – Kaitlyn’s Room

June 1, 2010 By
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This is my first post for Tackle It Tuesday, a terrific weekly feature that started on 5 Minutes for Mom! We had no specific plans for Memorial Day, so while Chris & the kids were cleaning out the garage - meaning, breaking down all the boxes I had tossed in there over the last month to take to the recycling center - I decided to tackle Kaitlyn's room. At first I wasn't going to take a picture because it was just so embarrassing, and then I decided what the heck, it would be a good excuse to do a post for Tackle It Tuesday. Brace yourselves: Why yes, it DOES look like the Barnes & Noble kids' section and the Target toy aisle exploded all over her room!  Also, last week I asked Nathan to put the laundry away and he whined that he couldn't put Kaitlyn's clothes away because he didn't know what drawers anything went in. So I solved that problem for him: No more excuses for you, Mister :P I've always assumed that the goal of Tackle It Tuesday was to show how you … [Read more...]

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Scientists looking for black holes should check my house

February 4, 2010 By

It's no secret that I'm unorganized, a piler, a clutterer. But it's not like the crew of Hoarders will be parking 1-800-Got-Junk trucks out front or anything. The surfaces might be piled with stuff, but you can tell there are surfaces underneath. Nevertheless, every once in a while, something disappears and no matter how hard we look, we just can't find it. The first thing to go missing was one of Kaitlyn's shoes. A shoe is not a tiny thing, and yet although we've torn the house apart, we just can't find it anywhere. Then, the case for my Nintendo DS vanished. We've looked and looked and looked, it is just gone. And now, this morning, I went to fix a cup of coffee, and the bottle of coffee creamer I bought at the grocery store last night isn't in the refrigerator. I checked every shelf and drawer, I even checked the freezer because you never know. It's just gone. So what is up with that? Where did those things GO? I hate having to buy Kaitlyn another pair of shoes when she has … [Read more...]

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Thoughts about stuff

May 18, 2009 By

I came across a blog called The Path Less Pedaled and it got me thinking. It's the blog of devoted cyclists Russ and Laura, who are paring down their lives to the items they can carry on their bicycles, and setting off across the country to look for other people living life in a unique way. Before they can set off on their dream journey however, they first need to figure out what to do with all of their stuff. They didn't just want to throw everything away, they wanted to find homes for as many of their possessions as possible. Which meant figuring out who, exactly, could use things like 16 mix tapes and 12 pairs of men's shoes, and how to get their items to those people. Russ and Laura are creative people in their work-he's a eco-friendly bicycling photographer, she's an art jewelry maker-and I'm finding it fascinating to read about them. And it's also making me look around my house and think, why exactly do I have all this STUFF? Take, for example, Kaitlyn's room. Every … [Read more...]

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