Great job! My grief clutter is my sewing space. My mom taught me how to sew a few years before she died. She passed in December of 2022. Since then I will get little spurts of wanting to sew but then the grief stops me. I want to return to it but then just end up leaving a big mess. Then I can’t start another project until it’s all clean and organized again. The grief makes it take weeks to clean it up to my standard and start another project. I did 5 mins w you today. Working on it. Thanks so much.
Awesome! You can always save it and come back as many times as you wish - assuming you don't get tired of my stories. I also have several other videos in the series if you haven't had a chance to check those out yet.
maybe you can pay someone to make you a memorial quilt to your mother and you could stick it up on the wall and then declutter some of the sewing supplies, just an idea
Loved this video so much!! Enjoyed hearing your story - much more interesting and fun to watch than the ones with just music. Probably a lot more work for you, but thanks so much - I just love hearing you talk about anything and everything in such a genuine way. The ending was awesome too - I love that you cheer us all on and leave room for those of us who may not be up to body doubling but give us credit for watching and getting motivation (which I definitely am!) And the high five at the end was perfection 😂❤
Awww thanks so much for all your awesome feedback. Sometimes I forget things from videos past - I meant to keep high fives as a thing but... whoops! Easily distracted 😆
I related to so much of what you spoke about. 2020 early was really stressful. Then a long period of inactivity - and shopping, and prepping, and yes, I got a puppy in March 2020 (just a coincidence) and live in an apartment. In Nov 2021 I leaned hard into decluttering. It took 4 months to go through my entire little studio and purge tons of stuff. I've continued consistently and am amazed that I'm still finding a box to donate every week or so. Your progress over this video was so apparent, you're getting close to done with this room! Blessings 🌻🍄
The reason it's so hard to actually throw away grief trash is because it causes you acknowledge it's the final connection to your loved one. You feel like you have lost the last connection with them. It's overwhelming! Give yourself some self love and understanding.
Wow! Such great progress! Seeing the first day and now this last day is so encouraging to keep going, even if you don’t feel like it, because look at the outcome! Thank you for sharing your story. It is so important, like you said. My dad passed away suddenly on 1/28/2020 and grief mixed with the onset of the pandemic, was such a sad experience. I remember being so incredibly sensitive to everything, especially the news. It was such a trying time and I cried a lot. I am better now, but I still can cry so easily, from other peoples pain and remembering my own journey. ❤❤❤
I actually had a manager who said I wasn't connecting with coworkers... but we were doing customer service and on the phone 8+ hours a day. They kept me on at that job AND They EXPECTED me to train new employees... but because I can't connect with people at copany parties or something she had to make a point of it, was weird, she was the head of the department not my direct manager... then they sent all the jobs out of the country and laid off the whole office like 200 people... so MEH... I was good enough at my job and I never called in sick... but still they want a loud clown that can juggle or something... I'm a quiet boring person... I do quiet boring hobbies.
Hi. I can totally relate. In my very heart I'm an introvert and COVID though a pandemic for me it wasn't hard isolating from people around me. The socializing process after COVID was so much harder and still in 2024 I haven't caught up. 😢
You did amazing with the decluttering this day! 💖 Your story is SO relatable! My house is finally feeling good, but now I need to clean out my basement and get a lot the rest of the way out.
I have some grief clutter. A dog was brought into my home and life by someone else and they didn't take care of her, so I began to and I was waiting for the day when he said she could be my dog instead of his. She was an impulse buy of his after his previous dog passed, so was going through his own grieving. I had a new collar picked out and started a bucket list of things we would do once it was official, but before that day came, he left my life and I found out the dog was going to go with him, too. It broke my heart and while I couldn't take her to get a pup cup, I brought one home for her and I still have the cup. He didn't even want her. He rehomed her, she escaped and was hit by a car, passing immediately. I didn't get any ashes, a foot or nose print, anything. Not her leash back, the toys I sent with her, her favorite treats. But I still have her pup cup, more than 4 months later, and it makes me so sad because I kept it just because I didn't think she'd be with me, unknowing that she wouldn't survive 8 hours outside of my care. I still just don't understand why me, someone who loved her, wasn't allowed to keep her if she was just going to be rehomed. At the beginning of the year, I was finally able to empty out the bag I packed when I went to search for her, when I knew she had been rehomed and didn't know she'd already passed. I still can't even look at photos of her. I wish I'd believed I had a voice back then. Some day I'll throw away the pup cup, but I'm not ready yet. Thank you for talking about grief trash. I had never heard anyone talk about it before and that made me feel incredibly heard and understood as well. So frustrated that that man still lurkes around the corners of my life causing havoc and pain.
I get it. I haven't done the story yet because I still can't yet, but this was my soul mate kitty. And I never believed in soul mates but even today, nearly 4 months later, I cry almost everyday. The grief clutter was get litter box which I recognize is disgusting to admit but it was soooo hard to part with that last thing. I kept up on the other cat boxes, naturally, but hers was obnoxiously difficult to trash.
I definitely understand keeping a litter box. My sister got me a stuffed animal that looks like the dog I lost and I feel like it's helped me focus some of that grief @@ManageableLiving ❤🩹
2020 was mythic, in a really bad way. I have read books about the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1921 and always felt a little smug, like "oh, that will never happen again, it is relegated to the dustbin of history." Well, the joke was on me - and I STILL face the pandemic's lingering effect because I work in healthcare and I frequently take care of COVID positive patients, along with flu and RSV patients. I miss feeling safe and connected, I still feel like being in a crowd indoors is like Russian Roulette since I am 67 years old and my fiance is 76 years old so we are NOT YOUNG no matter how healthy we try to stay. There is no doubt that isolation was and is real, worse for him because he is retired though I am still working and am constantly afraid that I will bring COVID home to him. But I still have to live, and I have to stop feeling chronically afraid, if I don't want to taint the rest of my life. So I am trying to embrace decluttering now and feeling lighter from it - I did spend 5 minutes already today (actually turned it into 15 minutes) and am so proud of myself for having done that. It is really true that it is an upward spiral and it only takes 5 minutes to latch back on to positivity and I really believe in that. Your work experience sounds really soul satisfying, hugs to you, I have always worked in male-predominant jobs and have always been good with that. Thank you for your real-time videos which so usefully demonstrate what 5 minutes can result in, it is a real-life look at what accomplishment is.
Yeah... I mean obviously we were smug in oil and gas. I forgot when I picked the story up again the next session to clarify we were acquisition collateral. The company that purchased the original division wanted our info and to shut us down as competition so a pandemic was a convenient way to expedite the process. Great job doing five minutes - and then continuing! Every little bit helps.
@@ManageableLiving P.S. My spare room looks like yours did before you started your 5 minutes matters. It may take me 6 months or more to clear mine out 5 minutes at a time, but now I know and see how much of a difference doing something even that seemingly small does make (thank you so much for your before and afters, they are truly evocative!). The rule I will keep to is that I can't bring anything else into the spare room now except for a black trash bag and a donatable donate box, and I will just have to tackle the room layer by layer based on what I can access. But anything coming out of it is still progress. My grief clutter was back in 2010 when my mom died in just 5 months from her brain tumor diagnosis. I think it took me maybe 3 years to work my way through that and I somehow now know that 3 years may be the timeline of grief and pandemic, no shorter, and I hope to remember that to be as kind to myself as I can. You are such a beam of practicality and hope. Thank you for what you are doing. Subscribing!
I started in a big tech company at the 16th of march. 2 days later, my country went into home office. I lived on 25sqf with my partner at the time. It was crazy! We tried to make the best of it - but i am also somebody, when I have stress I either need to work out or I eat. I can tell you - it did not help loosing the gym and the swimming pool :-) so glad this time is over! But I also have to say that I did not realized a lot of it at the time, sometimes It hits me today, how much i changed due to the pandamic and I think its the same for many people.
definetely!! I gained 25 kg or 48 pounds. It was hard, coming back from that!Can i tell you - i like how you speak to us in such a very clear and transparent way. I m really looking forward to your videos. I dont suffer from depression or something like that, but chronic pain, and I also sometime have to do stuff in small increments. But life is so much easier with a decluttered flat or house! greeting from germany@@ManageableLiving
I had tried a few years ago to have a channel that's more... surface-level decluttering and cleaning like most channels. It didn't do well because it wasn't "me" so if I was feeling crappy and I tried to smile through "make your home pretty." It's so obvious now why it didn't work. I'm just sad I didn't download the videos before deleting so I could react to my old videos and show why certain things didn't work long term. It's OK, we'll just keep moving forward!
The pandemic for me has been an eye opener. In 2021 I went to church two times and I ended up with c-19. I haven’t been back. I still pay a gym membership and have been trying to convince myself to go for two years. It’s very odd. I’ve been able to get out but to do these two things. Some days I feel like I’ve lost my senses.
I also donate to a gym... to be fair I tried canceling over the phone a while back but apparently you have to do that in person so.... yeah. I want to want to go to the gym, if that makes sense. I'm just not there right now.
I am SO proud of you! So super stonkin' proud. You are making so much progress and I enjoy watching every bit of it! The room I am needing to clean happens to be my "work room" where it was meant to be a space that I could work on my small business stuff - I am a soapmaker. That being said, when I first started my business was back in late 2020 after I was laid off from my 5-6 year job. I was heartbroken and I was also determined to use my time wisely to get something started, even while searching for another job. I ended up not finding one, nobody was hiring and was doing the opposite. Long story short, depression and grief from not finding a job got to me. My family was also going through a rough patch, I was a caregiver for my mom and sister after we got covid in July 2021 that my mom nearly didn't survive. At that point, I had to literally put everything for my small business to the side and could only take care of them. Everything got shoved in the work space in boxes, and it snowballed. Total complete failure on my part to keep things organized. I still work with this clutter, it's very much turned into Clutterbug's stage 4 clutter - Chaos. I was getting to the point where I just wanted to throw it all away because it was getting to be too much to deal with. Ever since coming across your video however, I am now slowly, so slowly, turning things around. I am so appreciative of what you do, and the hope that you represent for me and for others is so bright that I hope it continues to inspire you to move forward. It's a nice feeling to know that we're not alone. I'll be rewatching this one again, and work along with you :)
I’m still using toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning products, and vinegar from the pandemic😮 it was a crazy time. I was retired from work. (I am 73 )😊Otis and I would walk every day. I always did walk and I did not want to stop doing that. I felt the freedom of not wearing a mask. Also when I was walking on the street, although there was a lot of people that did wear masks, I think the worst was people that washed down their groceries and left bags outside or wore gloves and they found out that the gloves were worse. It was a horrible time. I was OK with being in the house but I missed seeing my family; I missed most of all the human contact and the human touch. My church was canceled for three months and I remember going back when it was opened. It wasn’t the same because we had to wear mask and every other row was taking out, but I am so grateful now that things are back to normal. You are doing a fantastic job that room looks amazing so far.❤
I only hoarded some dry beans and some canned chicken that I didn't use. We had no idea how bad the pandemic was going to be and for some people it did end their life.
The other strange things is even now, things are pretty normal in my area but it's like I forgot how to socialize. Like what do people do after work and on the weekends? I know I used to do things...
@@ManageableLiving I know I get it being retired it’s a whole different ball game. I mostly socialize with my friends and actually when it’s snowing and I’m shoveling my car out. I socialize with my neighbors. I am on my condo board so I do meet with them once a month on zoom but at least it’s something I don’t think socializing the same anymore after Covid.
{{{Hugs}}} Holly, I'm sorry for your loss. This is only my 3rd video of yours, so I don't know the circumstances. My husband died 17 years ago. The week after he died, I was ready to take his clothes to Goodwill. I kept a few. Every couple of years, I come across something I wasn't ready to get rid of those many years ago. Sometimes I'm able to let them go, and sometimes not.
It was the sweetest kitty ever. I never believed in soul mates in general but she was my soul cat. We still miss her like crazy. Queso was up and down the hall whining this morning still cuz he had such a soft spot for her. I have lost a significant other when I was about 27 and I do not wish that on anyone. Thanks for continuing to hang out!
@@ManageableLiving, I understand about those fur babies. Sometimes, my cat Petra escapes to the outside world. I know she's missing because the other cat, Edith, calls out for her in a long, melancholy meow.
It may help you to ask yourself who or want has priority in your home. You have a right to in the home that you pay for & maintain. Everything else needs to earn its keep. If it does not serve you right now, in this season of life it’s time for it to leave.
I have rentals and they NEVER feel like home. The amount of stuff I own is so minimal it shocks people. I'm not organized because I never have proper furniture of my choosing only what fits, what I can move by myself or what is already there. I've been living out of boxes pretty much my entire life. Have never ever felt at home. I threw away hundreds of dollars worth of art paints and I'm really regretting that but oh well. For me 2020 was like every other year.. I don't go out much. I don't gravitate to big events like mobs of concert goers and malls.
I am renting with the intention of buying. I wanted the first few years as rent to make sure the neighborhood is a good fit and it has been working out pretty well so far.
Great job! My grief clutter is my sewing space. My mom taught me how to sew a few years before she died. She passed in December of 2022. Since then I will get little spurts of wanting to sew but then the grief stops me. I want to return to it but then just end up leaving a big mess. Then I can’t start another project until it’s all clean and organized again. The grief makes it take weeks to clean it up to my standard and start another project. I did 5 mins w you today. Working on it. Thanks so much.
Awesome! You can always save it and come back as many times as you wish - assuming you don't get tired of my stories. I also have several other videos in the series if you haven't had a chance to check those out yet.
maybe you can pay someone to make you a memorial quilt to your mother and you could stick it up on the wall and then declutter some of the sewing supplies, just an idea
Loved this video so much!! Enjoyed hearing your story - much more interesting and fun to watch than the ones with just music. Probably a lot more work for you, but thanks so much - I just love hearing you talk about anything and everything in such a genuine way. The ending was awesome too - I love that you cheer us all on and leave room for those of us who may not be up to body doubling but give us credit for watching and getting motivation (which I definitely am!) And the high five at the end was perfection 😂❤
Awww thanks so much for all your awesome feedback. Sometimes I forget things from videos past - I meant to keep high fives as a thing but... whoops! Easily distracted 😆
I related to so much of what you spoke about. 2020 early was really stressful. Then a long period of inactivity - and shopping, and prepping, and yes, I got a puppy in March 2020 (just a coincidence) and live in an apartment. In Nov 2021 I leaned hard into decluttering. It took 4 months to go through my entire little studio and purge tons of stuff. I've continued consistently and am amazed that I'm still finding a box to donate every week or so. Your progress over this video was so apparent, you're getting close to done with this room! Blessings 🌻🍄
Thank you! And I agree, it was so easy to re-accumulate when my "clutter guard" was down.
The reason it's so hard to actually throw away grief trash is because it causes you acknowledge it's the final connection to your loved one. You feel like you have lost the last connection with them. It's overwhelming! Give yourself some self love and understanding.
Yes, even donating truly usable items hurts but feels like at least you're helping someone else. Grief trash is just so... final.
Wow! Such great progress! Seeing the first day and now this last day is so encouraging to keep going, even if you don’t feel like it, because look at the outcome!
Thank you for sharing your story. It is so important, like you said. My dad passed away suddenly on 1/28/2020 and grief mixed with the onset of the pandemic, was such a sad experience. I remember being so incredibly sensitive to everything, especially the news. It was such a trying time and I cried a lot. I am better now, but I still can cry so easily, from other peoples pain and remembering my own journey. ❤❤❤
Thanks for sharing, I also noticed I cry much more easily than I used to.
Im a introvert with social anxiety, i truly struggle to make friends. Great job xx
I am always amazed when I see groups of several women out and about.
I actually had a manager who said I wasn't connecting with coworkers... but we were doing customer service and on the phone 8+ hours a day. They kept me on at that job AND They EXPECTED me to train new employees... but because I can't connect with people at copany parties or something she had to make a point of it, was weird, she was the head of the department not my direct manager... then they sent all the jobs out of the country and laid off the whole office like 200 people... so MEH... I was good enough at my job and I never called in sick... but still they want a loud clown that can juggle or something... I'm a quiet boring person... I do quiet boring hobbies.
Haha, same! At least my work seems to think I'm social enough to be getting along with everyone in my reviews.
Yep, I always had good reviews I just didn't go to the work parties which they weren't paying me to do anyhow. @@ManageableLiving
Hi. I can totally relate. In my very heart I'm an introvert and COVID though a pandemic for me it wasn't hard isolating from people around me. The socializing process after COVID was so much harder and still in 2024 I haven't caught up. 😢
You did amazing with the decluttering this day! 💖 Your story is SO relatable! My house is finally feeling good, but now I need to clean out my basement and get a lot the rest of the way out.
Aw thank you! Sometimes I wish I had a basement and my dad says no, they're junk collectors and he would know! 😆
I have some grief clutter. A dog was brought into my home and life by someone else and they didn't take care of her, so I began to and I was waiting for the day when he said she could be my dog instead of his. She was an impulse buy of his after his previous dog passed, so was going through his own grieving. I had a new collar picked out and started a bucket list of things we would do once it was official, but before that day came, he left my life and I found out the dog was going to go with him, too. It broke my heart and while I couldn't take her to get a pup cup, I brought one home for her and I still have the cup. He didn't even want her. He rehomed her, she escaped and was hit by a car, passing immediately. I didn't get any ashes, a foot or nose print, anything. Not her leash back, the toys I sent with her, her favorite treats. But I still have her pup cup, more than 4 months later, and it makes me so sad because I kept it just because I didn't think she'd be with me, unknowing that she wouldn't survive 8 hours outside of my care. I still just don't understand why me, someone who loved her, wasn't allowed to keep her if she was just going to be rehomed. At the beginning of the year, I was finally able to empty out the bag I packed when I went to search for her, when I knew she had been rehomed and didn't know she'd already passed. I still can't even look at photos of her. I wish I'd believed I had a voice back then. Some day I'll throw away the pup cup, but I'm not ready yet. Thank you for talking about grief trash. I had never heard anyone talk about it before and that made me feel incredibly heard and understood as well. So frustrated that that man still lurkes around the corners of my life causing havoc and pain.
I get it. I haven't done the story yet because I still can't yet, but this was my soul mate kitty. And I never believed in soul mates but even today, nearly 4 months later, I cry almost everyday. The grief clutter was get litter box which I recognize is disgusting to admit but it was soooo hard to part with that last thing. I kept up on the other cat boxes, naturally, but hers was obnoxiously difficult to trash.
I definitely understand keeping a litter box. My sister got me a stuffed animal that looks like the dog I lost and I feel like it's helped me focus some of that grief @@ManageableLiving ❤🩹
Really enjoyed listening to you.
Thanks 😊
I enjoyed your video and enjoyed you sharing your story. 👍
Thank you for stopping by and listening!
2020 was mythic, in a really bad way. I have read books about the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1921 and always felt a little smug, like "oh, that will never happen again, it is relegated to the dustbin of history." Well, the joke was on me - and I STILL face the pandemic's lingering effect because I work in healthcare and I frequently take care of COVID positive patients, along with flu and RSV patients. I miss feeling safe and connected, I still feel like being in a crowd indoors is like Russian Roulette since I am 67 years old and my fiance is 76 years old so we are NOT YOUNG no matter how healthy we try to stay. There is no doubt that isolation was and is real, worse for him because he is retired though I am still working and am constantly afraid that I will bring COVID home to him. But I still have to live, and I have to stop feeling chronically afraid, if I don't want to taint the rest of my life. So I am trying to embrace decluttering now and feeling lighter from it - I did spend 5 minutes already today (actually turned it into 15 minutes) and am so proud of myself for having done that. It is really true that it is an upward spiral and it only takes 5 minutes to latch back on to positivity and I really believe in that. Your work experience sounds really soul satisfying, hugs to you, I have always worked in male-predominant jobs and have always been good with that. Thank you for your real-time videos which so usefully demonstrate what 5 minutes can result in, it is a real-life look at what accomplishment is.
Yeah... I mean obviously we were smug in oil and gas. I forgot when I picked the story up again the next session to clarify we were acquisition collateral. The company that purchased the original division wanted our info and to shut us down as competition so a pandemic was a convenient way to expedite the process.
Great job doing five minutes - and then continuing! Every little bit helps.
@@ManageableLiving P.S. My spare room looks like yours did before you started your 5 minutes matters. It may take me 6 months or more to clear mine out 5 minutes at a time, but now I know and see how much of a difference doing something even that seemingly small does make (thank you so much for your before and afters, they are truly evocative!). The rule I will keep to is that I can't bring anything else into the spare room now except for a black trash bag and a donatable donate box, and I will just have to tackle the room layer by layer based on what I can access. But anything coming out of it is still progress. My grief clutter was back in 2010 when my mom died in just 5 months from her brain tumor diagnosis. I think it took me maybe 3 years to work my way through that and I somehow now know that 3 years may be the timeline of grief and pandemic, no shorter, and I hope to remember that to be as kind to myself as I can. You are such a beam of practicality and hope. Thank you for what you are doing. Subscribing!
Awww thank you so much and welcome to our little community!
I started in a big tech company at the 16th of march. 2 days later, my country went into home office. I lived on 25sqf with my partner at the time. It was crazy! We tried to make the best of it - but i am also somebody, when I have stress I either need to work out or I eat. I can tell you - it did not help loosing the gym and the swimming pool :-) so glad this time is over! But I also have to say that I did not realized a lot of it at the time, sometimes It hits me today, how much i changed due to the pandamic and I think its the same for many people.
I tried going on walks at first but eventually the yuck got to me and I stopped. I'm glad we're on the other side of it for sure!
definetely!! I gained 25 kg or 48 pounds. It was hard, coming back from that!Can i tell you - i like how you speak to us in such a very clear and transparent way. I m really looking forward to your videos. I dont suffer from depression or something like that, but chronic pain, and I also sometime have to do stuff in small increments. But life is so much easier with a decluttered flat or house! greeting from germany@@ManageableLiving
I suppose that is my tiny bit of German side coming out to be so upfront. Glad to have you in our community.
Thank you for being so real and brave keep up the great job❤
I had tried a few years ago to have a channel that's more... surface-level decluttering and cleaning like most channels. It didn't do well because it wasn't "me" so if I was feeling crappy and I tried to smile through "make your home pretty." It's so obvious now why it didn't work. I'm just sad I didn't download the videos before deleting so I could react to my old videos and show why certain things didn't work long term. It's OK, we'll just keep moving forward!
The pandemic for me has been an eye opener. In 2021 I went to church two times and I ended up with c-19. I haven’t been back. I still pay a gym membership and have been trying to convince myself to go for two years. It’s very odd. I’ve been able to get out but to do these two things. Some days I feel like I’ve lost my senses.
I also donate to a gym... to be fair I tried canceling over the phone a while back but apparently you have to do that in person so.... yeah. I want to want to go to the gym, if that makes sense. I'm just not there right now.
Thank you for your honesty and vulnerability. Great work 💛
Thanks so much and thanks for watching! 💜
Thank you 🙌💖
Glad you enjoyed 😊💜
I am SO proud of you! So super stonkin' proud. You are making so much progress and I enjoy watching every bit of it!
The room I am needing to clean happens to be my "work room" where it was meant to be a space that I could work on my small business stuff - I am a soapmaker. That being said, when I first started my business was back in late 2020 after I was laid off from my 5-6 year job. I was heartbroken and I was also determined to use my time wisely to get something started, even while searching for another job. I ended up not finding one, nobody was hiring and was doing the opposite. Long story short, depression and grief from not finding a job got to me. My family was also going through a rough patch, I was a caregiver for my mom and sister after we got covid in July 2021 that my mom nearly didn't survive. At that point, I had to literally put everything for my small business to the side and could only take care of them. Everything got shoved in the work space in boxes, and it snowballed. Total complete failure on my part to keep things organized. I still work with this clutter, it's very much turned into Clutterbug's stage 4 clutter - Chaos. I was getting to the point where I just wanted to throw it all away because it was getting to be too much to deal with. Ever since coming across your video however, I am now slowly, so slowly, turning things around. I am so appreciative of what you do, and the hope that you represent for me and for others is so bright that I hope it continues to inspire you to move forward. It's a nice feeling to know that we're not alone. I'll be rewatching this one again, and work along with you :)
Oh wow, thanks for sharing and I look forward to having you in this amazingly positive community!
I’m still using toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning products, and vinegar from the pandemic😮 it was a crazy time. I was retired from work. (I am 73 )😊Otis and I would walk every day. I always did walk and I did not want to stop doing that. I felt the freedom of not wearing a mask. Also when I was walking on the street, although there was a lot of people that did wear masks, I think the worst was people that washed down their groceries and left bags outside or wore gloves and they found out that the gloves were worse. It was a horrible time. I was OK with being in the house but I missed seeing my family; I missed most of all the human contact and the human touch. My church was canceled for three months and I remember going back when it was opened. It wasn’t the same because we had to wear mask and every other row was taking out, but I am so grateful now that things are back to normal. You are doing a fantastic job that room looks amazing so far.❤
I only hoarded some dry beans and some canned chicken that I didn't use. We had no idea how bad the pandemic was going to be and for some people it did end their life.
I definitely found some weird food things I bought at that time. Oh well, this is how we learn.
The other strange things is even now, things are pretty normal in my area but it's like I forgot how to socialize. Like what do people do after work and on the weekends? I know I used to do things...
@@ManageableLiving I know I get it being retired it’s a whole different ball game. I mostly socialize with my friends and actually when it’s snowing and I’m shoveling my car out. I socialize with my neighbors. I am on my condo board so I do meet with them once a month on zoom but at least it’s something I don’t think socializing the same anymore after Covid.
{{{Hugs}}} Holly, I'm sorry for your loss. This is only my 3rd video of yours, so I don't know the circumstances. My husband died 17 years ago. The week after he died, I was ready to take his clothes to Goodwill. I kept a few. Every couple of years, I come across something I wasn't ready to get rid of those many years ago. Sometimes I'm able to let them go, and sometimes not.
It was the sweetest kitty ever. I never believed in soul mates in general but she was my soul cat. We still miss her like crazy. Queso was up and down the hall whining this morning still cuz he had such a soft spot for her. I have lost a significant other when I was about 27 and I do not wish that on anyone. Thanks for continuing to hang out!
@@ManageableLiving, I understand about those fur babies. Sometimes, my cat Petra escapes to the outside world. I know she's missing because the other cat, Edith, calls out for her in a long, melancholy meow.
It's 1 am. I'm going to wipe off a shelf, brush my teeth and try to sleep I guess.
Hey that's something!
It may help you to ask yourself who or want has priority in your home. You have a right to in the home that you pay for & maintain. Everything else needs to earn its keep. If it does not serve you right now, in this season of life it’s time for it to leave.
Thanks for that perspective! I will try to keep that in mind. 😊
I have rentals and they NEVER feel like home. The amount of stuff I own is so minimal it shocks people. I'm not organized because I never have proper furniture of my choosing only what fits, what I can move by myself or what is already there. I've been living out of boxes pretty much my entire life. Have never ever felt at home. I threw away hundreds of dollars worth of art paints and I'm really regretting that but oh well. For me 2020 was like every other year.. I don't go out much. I don't gravitate to big events like mobs of concert goers and malls.
I am renting with the intention of buying. I wanted the first few years as rent to make sure the neighborhood is a good fit and it has been working out pretty well so far.
Well that is a very smart and cautious way to go about it. @@ManageableLiving
While you’re decluttering on the floor you appear to be doing a non rhythmic workout 😂
When I'm racing that 5 minute timer it really does feel like a workout!