2021 Saturday — Confetti

I think that if I had a confetti business, I would not need to buy materials. We started seriously shredding old documents one weekend in early June of 2017. We were preparing for the eventual selling of our SoCal big house and a move back to our first home. We shredded documents for the better part of that weekend.

Then a year later we sold the big house and moved back to our original home that we had rented out for the previous 24 years. I’m sure we brought along too much stuff; even though we thought at the time we would not be keeping a permanent residence in SoCal, so we let go of LOTS of things in a professionally administer moving sale. If I had known that we were going to keep this little house, there are some things that I would have kept — oh well.

So these past 3 years, and especially the past 10 months that I have been retired, I have continued to shred the contents of overstuffed file drawers: outdated documents, educational materials that I used for teaching, and paper souvenirs.

My incentive to rid us of these items was increased when we had to clean-out Mr. Fun’s mom’s home when she died in spring of 2018. We found greeting cards, and a variety of other clutter, in her house that dated back to 1955, and her sewing room was bursting at the seams with yardage, thread, trimmings like rick-rack, lace, ribbons, etc., and boxes and boxes of patterns.

So today’s Blip is my reminder to me that I am accomplishing this task of decluttering, even if it is little by little.

From Southern California,
Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka Carol
and Chloe & Mitzi too!