My new motto is “Things sometimes have to get messy before they can be organised”.
The recent weather has resulted in us “staying in,” rather more than I would have liked, this is not preferable as it is the summer holidays. When “staying in” I find myself at a loose end. I can’t read a book, or watch television because the children inevitably interrupt my reading or take over the television to watch their rather loud and annoying kids programmes.
When I’m in this position I often find myself organising something. In the last school holiday I organised my kitchen drawers, this time I tackled the dreaded under stairs cupboard. It all started well, my two daughters helped me go through my collection of their old school work from nursery school. This included, old book bags, puzzles with pieces missing, the usual detritus. Then halfway through they got bored and turned back to their television programmes and computer games. By this point I was left with piles of paperwork, old photos and drawings from when they were toddlers. It was at this point I realised it had been a bad idea. I should have left things as they were (in carrier bags and boxes).
I find it difficult to discard their stick people drawings from when they were three, I can be overly sentimental. I learnt something, I am a hoarder. Maybe I’m not the kind of hoarder on the programmes where they need a team of people to come to their house and tell them to bin everything, but a lesser kind. I will I admit I’m on the way to becoming a ‘medium sized’ hoarder.
Being organised is something I aspire to, and all though I nearly drowned in pieces of paper this time, I have now vowed that in the school holidays if there is ever a day where the weather is inclement, that I will tackle a drawer, a wardrobe or a cupboard. I will throw away things I don’t need, I will never let things get like this again. Oh, I do believe I’m experiencing a case of de ja vu…
