Comments on: Spring? http://www.char-lyn.com/2008/02/26/spring/ Life with three kids, five acres, a dog and only two, semi-sane adults. (...the nervous twitch is barely perceptible!) Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:40:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: JustMe http://www.char-lyn.com/2008/02/26/spring/comment-page-1/#comment-495 JustMe Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:39:56 +0000 http://www.char-lyn.com/2008/02/26/spring/#comment-495 Liesel- well, you had to pare things down quite a bit on that last move. It's sometimes hard to anticipate what will be needed/wanted in situations like that. I keep reading that when a person de-clutters that they will hardly ever miss what they have let go. I wonder about that sometimes. Most of the things I have been getting rid of have been kids clothes/items that we don't need anymore- I find that very, very freeing! There are more of that kind of thing that needs to go. I look at items that have been sitting unused for ages but I hang on to them because of WHO gave them to us. I need to move past that. Jules- I just hate it when I can NOT remember where I put something and that does happen sometimes after I have cleaned up an area and so the usual pile is not there to go through. I really think I gifted those snow pants to my cousins but I am embarrassed to ask. Liesel- well, you had to pare things down quite a bit on that last move. It’s sometimes hard to anticipate what will be needed/wanted in situations like that. I keep reading that when a person de-clutters that they will hardly ever miss what they have let go. I wonder about that sometimes. Most of the things I have been getting rid of have been kids clothes/items that we don’t need anymore- I find that very, very freeing! There are more of that kind of thing that needs to go. I look at items that have been sitting unused for ages but I hang on to them because of WHO gave them to us. I need to move past that.

Jules- I just hate it when I can NOT remember where I put something and that does happen sometimes after I have cleaned up an area and so the usual pile is not there to go through. I really think I gifted those snow pants to my cousins but I am embarrassed to ask.

]]> By: Jules http://www.char-lyn.com/2008/02/26/spring/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Jules Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:04:01 +0000 http://www.char-lyn.com/2008/02/26/spring/#comment-494 Ah yes the illusive snow pants, you know that is what will happen! Spring will arrive and you will find those darn things...almost makes you regret "trying" to organize since you'd surely be able to find them if they were still in the shuffle of things right? I have done that same thing, thinking surely I'd remember where I put this thing and it appears to be gone for good and suddenly it reappears once said child it was meant for has just outgrown it!! HAHA Ah yes the illusive snow pants, you know that is what will happen! Spring will arrive and you will find those darn things…almost makes you regret “trying” to organize since you’d surely be able to find them if they were still in the shuffle of things right?

I have done that same thing, thinking surely I’d remember where I put this thing and it appears to be gone for good and suddenly it reappears once said child it was meant for has just outgrown it!! HAHA

]]> By: Liesel http://www.char-lyn.com/2008/02/26/spring/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Liesel Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:03:23 +0000 http://www.char-lyn.com/2008/02/26/spring/#comment-493 So true, so true! I can not count the times this past year that I have wished I didn't get rid of some items when I last moved, or that I will go looking for something and finally remember I got rid of it in my attempt to reduce, declutter, and simplify. Darn it! I always get fickle and think I will no longer need or want that item, but then a year later..."Why did I get rid of that!" Even though you have been getting much more snow that us this year (we have only had a total of 5 inches so far, very low for us) I too see early signs of Spring. The most prominent being that our cats this past week have started to shed oh so slightly. That's one sign I could do without! So true, so true! I can not count the times this past year that I have wished I didn’t get rid of some items when I last moved, or that I will go looking for something and finally remember I got rid of it in my attempt to reduce, declutter, and simplify. Darn it! I always get fickle and think I will no longer need or want that item, but then a year later…”Why did I get rid of that!”

Even though you have been getting much more snow that us this year (we have only had a total of 5 inches so far, very low for us) I too see early signs of Spring. The most prominent being that our cats this past week have started to shed oh so slightly. That’s one sign I could do without!

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