Something I am hot for...

[hippybngstockng]

I just spent the last half hour watching what has to be my new crack... I blame the Flylady for my latest addiction. I am positively hooked on Clean Sweep, I must confess.

As a person who spent what felt like a thousand years in a clutter pile, a pile so totally huge my rooms weren't just reduced to paths, but STEP ZONES, I really appreciate this show and the miraculous change it brings to the people who let themselves become part of it. In addition to flylady, this show has really helped me with letting go of some of my stuff. They really help people look at what they keep logically, take a step back from the emotions that tie them to clutter, and get to the bottom of what's holding them back. It's never the things, but your heart that gets in the way. But the heart still needs a say, and they have a wonderful way of helping people find a compromise between what the heart needs, and what the spirit can bear. Sometimes letting go is really hard, but it can also set you free like nothing else you've ever known. It's intoxicating...

Comments

[obvious.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time watching shows like Clean Sweap because my mom was like that. But she was one of the extreme cases. She'd put papaer over cat messes and leave old moldy food around for months. It was a really awful way to live.

I'm a shameless collector myself. I buy trinkets just to have them. It comes from being a kid and losing everything I had when my mom had us evicted a few times. So now I'm obsessive with things. I want to own things that no one will ever take away from me. This is also why I'm addicted to tattooing, no one can ever take those away.

Wow, I'm sorry. Your post just turned into therapy for me, lol. Sorry about that.

It's my journal, you can ramble if you want to, ramble if you want to, ramble if you want to....

[hippybngstockng.livejournal.com]

No worries about the therapy! Hell, it's why I brought it up! Throwing stuff out has been like therapy for me...

My mom was the type of person who always tells you not to throw something out. She doesn't actually keep the stuff herself, she gives it to ME! Seriously!! She thinks I never have any money, and must still need everything, so if it still works she will take it and keep it and offer it to me. She's NUTS.

My problem became that I never knew when it was okay to throw something away. I never had someone to give the shit to, so I just had tons and tons and tons and tons of shit. It was all CLEAN thanks to the fact that my mom was also anal and passed that on to me as well, but it was also EVERYWHERE because I didn't have enough space to keep it. Then it was dusty, and then... well, let's not talk about dark times..

But seriously- It sounds like you at least have the good sense to only take things that are special to you, you don't sound like you pick up everything you can, just because it could be used by someone. I'd bet you don't have so much a clutter problem as a possibly intense amount of stuff that you love, which is never a bad thing. The bad thing becomes if you move into a space that's too small for you to appreciate what you have. That's the kind of compromise I am trying to reach at the moment- I am trying to decide whether it's still that I have too much, or that I live in a space that's not big enough. I think I have a touch of both going on, and I will show everyone what I'm talking about at some point.

[cmariewt.livejournal.com]

That sounds like something my mom should watch. She is HORRIBLE about keeping too much stuff. She has even had to get rid of all coffee and side tables she had in her livingroom because she said they were just "shit stacking spaces" taking up her home. Just clutter clutter clutter.