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Clutter Begets Clutter

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My husband and I are both pack rats by nature.  We try to purge, really we do.  But just as we kick some crap stuff to the curb, it seems like more crap stuff creeps in through the back door.

Our general living space is not over-come with clutter.  Those spaces are actually (relatively) easy to keep clean because everything has a place to call its own.  I don’t think I’d be able to have people in my home if I had clutter all over  – I’d be too embarrassed.

In fact, the only reason I’m going to willingly put photos of my clutter here for everyone to see is so that I can have some motivation to post the after shots. 

Here’s my sewing area, about an hour after I started working on it:

Up until a year ago, I was at this desk all the time, sewing away.  It was quite a hobby.  But then, I set a bag of stuff down next to it.  After that came a box of electronic stuff.  A little while later, I bought some fabric but didn’t have space in a drawer – guess where it went?  Then we brought a big bag of snow gear back from a trip, and it got set there, too.  I just today unpacked the suitcase my cat has been using for a bed, and we got back from Arizona at the end of May.

It’s like a black hole, that desk.  I swear – if I had set that suitcase anywhere else it would have been back in the garage rafters the day we got back.

So, tell me: Do you have a black hole of clutter somewhere in your home?  Don’t worry, I won’t hate you if you say NO!  However, it is brutally honest Monday, you know.