Tuesday, July 27, 2010

What Clutter?

I've watched TV shows that depicted those poor souls who have been labeled as hoarders. Feeling bad as I watched these people being 'forced' to deal with throwing away their precious life's treasures collected over the years. I've asked myself, what exactly constitutes hoarding?

I live in a four and one half room cottage, a kitchen, living room, two bedrooms, and a bathroom. This cottage would be quite suitable for one person, but there are three of us living here, in this now tiny house. Mike, my live in musician companion, my college attending daughter who is now on summer break and I share this frugal space. At this point I will now add that every corner, every possible space, every nook and cranny of these four rooms (I exclude the bathroom) has something crammed into its precious square footage.

The kitchen, or shall I call it, the computer-craft-storage-cooking-cleaning zone.
The living room, the TV-computer-library-closet-medicine cabinet-display-study area.
The bedroom, aka, the library-recording studio-guitar practice-storage-district.
and bedroom 2, did I mention my daughter and I do crafts? paper crafts, sewing, crocheting, jewelry making, scrapbooking and make character costumes for various conventions throughout the year?

Within these four rooms: areas, zones or districts contain everything one would need to accomplish the aforementioned activities. I have containerized the unimaginable.
My goal in life is to rubbermaid everything! Heaven forbid one of the 15 plastic crates we own would be empty! I panic thinking 'what can I readjust in this madness to re-fill this container so we are more organized!' I search the web looking for bigger, better containers. I have purchased plastic containers too big to fit in my car and had to strap it in using the front seat belt!

So now back to my question... am I a hoarder? Or a potential tupperware sales person?





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