We're Not Hoarders, Promise!

We are not hoarders. I've seen the TV show Hoarders - some of those people have serious mental issues and you can't see the floors of their houses (and there's usually a dead animal in their house). I don't have any serious mental issues (most of the time, anyway...I think), you can see my floor and I don't have any issue throwing something away, taking it to be recycled, or taking it to Goodwill (and I don't have any dead animals...except maybe some dead bugs...somewhere).

But somehow we still acquire all this STUFF! Where does it all come from?! I know some of it is us just being lazy. Sometimes we just don't want to take care of a mess when it pops up or throw something away right away even when we KNOW it's TRASH. Some of it is we don't really like a routine unless it's absolutely necessary. Some people have certain days when they do certain chores, but we as a family shy away from such regimented house-keeping. And then we sometimes keep things just because we "might need them one day."

Well I have declared war on the items that we "might need one day." Why? Because mostly it's just junk. I don't need shoe boxes, I don't need seeds that expired in 2012, I don't need foamy sheets that were probably packing material, I don't need sandwich trays that I got from Walmart, and I certainly don't need the trash I've been overlooking for a while. Am I nesting...maybe. But I think all this STUFF is just stressing me out. Many years I put my deep cleaning off to summer-time when I'm off 24-7, but this summer I'm going to have a baby to think about. And wouldn't it just be fantastic to come home from the hospital with our little bundle of joy to a house that is ridiculously CLEAN and ORGANIZED? A house that isn't stressing me out?

We'll see how well I can do in the next couple of months! Wish me luck!