OK, I have HAD IT with my apartment. I was just watching this Oprah episode, about de-cluttering your space, and I am officially inspired. I blamed my clutter for a long time on my finances and… well… the blame stands true in some respects. I have NO WHERE TO PUT ANYTHING! That has not changed. However, most of my stuff that hangs out is because I refuse to throw anything away. I am not a pack-rat, but I am close. I keep memory items that mean absolutely nothing - and I will never need them again! I refuse to throw anything I decide is valuable away. My idea of cleaning the living room is going through the room with two safeway bags - one for garbage and one for items I want to keep but have no place for. Can you guess how many bags I have in my bedroom closet of stuff I "Don’t have a place for?" Like 10! I made my closet the place that my stuff I have no place for the place for it. Only, its in safeway bags, spilling over and not even pretending to be organized.

I wake up in the morning and see mountains of clothes and crap, everywhere. I really don’t want to buy dressers and organizational furniture I do not want to commit to. I have more of a problem "throwing away money" on furniture I plan to throw away than fix the problem and get temporary furniture. I think the first step to my plan will be to go up to the storage room we pay for every month and throw away all of the items that I can do away with. The second thing will be to go through my mother’s old belongings. Almost all of her belongings are so hard to throw away. How can you throw away something that your mother owned. She is no longer here. What can you do? I can not think of one thing that she has owned that I be able to throw away. That will suck. Once there is some more room in storage, I an work on the bedroom and put some things for donation that I can get a write off for. Why not - I need the space, and I need to de-clutter my life in general! I seriously can not stand it how it is now - and holding on to this useless crap is making my life hell.

When you wake up hating your living space, how can you enjoy your life. You can’t, I have been inspired to think. I hope this encouraging thought lasts me through me waking up again tomorrow…. cause it is almost 3 AM and I am so tired. Thank you Oprah you are still the queen of daytime (at 3 AM on Tivo).