we are cleaning house. our apartment, as much as i love it just because its our home, has started to drive me nuts on multiple occasions. it is something i have a had a really hard time explaining to adam, but it has something to do with disorganization and how little i feel it represents us. i know that having a pretty space might not be important to everyone. for me it is! i guess it all started because i have a mom that let me redecorate my room every couple years growing up. i just hate that everything is kinda mish-mashed in no particular sequence. not only this...but we have crap EVERYWHERE! in one corner sits a mandolin, a bike rack, and an umbrella in a trash can. in another corner is our sky high collection of recyclables that we can't get rid of because murfreesboro is the most anti-green city ever. and finally sits the chair that only serves the purpose of forcing me to get in weird positions to squeeze by our dining room table to get in the kitchen. it holds everything we plan on returning, throwing away, or just can't find a place for. the latter category is the most popular. there is actually a box of stuff brought back from knoxville in september that i still don't know what to do with. it just doesn't make sense...we live in a one bedroom apartment and some how every time we come back from knoxville, we unload twice as much as we left with. all of this clutter resulted in a frustrated conversation where adam gave us a way out. he took it upon himself to go through the whole house while i was at work and make a pile of stuff to get rid of right in the living room floor. then, he let me do the same. as simple as it sounds, i just hadn't thought about it. "what?! git rid of perfectly good stuff just because we aren't using it?" i couldn't wrap my mind around it (possibly due to a gene passed down from my mom). but how freeing to do it! i set up my first ebay seller's site and everything else is going to goodwill...unless any of you want it of course.
so that's my goal...we are going to simplify our space/life. we will only surround ourselves with things we need or that make us happy and don't take up too much room. as for decorating...that will come, but for now i'm satisfied being able to walk into the kitchen without a stubbed toe.
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Grigsby's-
We have a solution for you guys. Move to New Jersey. In 2005 Forbes ranked it number 7 on the list of America's greenest states. http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/16/environment-energy-vermont-biz-beltway-cx_bw_mm_1017greenstates.html Its the law to recycle in NJ and you will be able to simplify your space/life because you will not be able to buy anything you dont need because all of your money will go towards rent. We miss you guys.
- The Priddy's
Springsteen is my hero, but if greenness and crazy rent are the criteria, I will have to trump the NJ card with a nomination for Seattle!!
Way to fight the good fight out of clutterdom, beloveds.
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