Devourer of Books

Perhaps I was a little optimistic to think that I could accomplish all of my throwing out of fifty things in a single weekend.  Since I simply do NOT have the energy to tackle the kitchen tonight, that will have to be continued tomorrow, possibly along with my bookshelves and some other areas of the [...]

I can never seem to keep my bathroom organized.  The guest bathroom, that’s fine, but mine?  Yikes.  It gets messy really quickly and then proceeds to drive me absolutely insane until I finally get around to cleaning it up again.  
Now, partially this is because our bathroom is small and I am sort of lazy. [...]

If the idea of trying to “Throw Out Fifty Things” is just not for you and you want validation in your messiness, check out Jena’s review of “A Perfect Mess” over at Muse Book Reviews.  I’m actually not convinced that these books are totally contradictory.  It seems that you could throw out the stuff you [...]

There is one thing in our bedroom that frustrates me to no end, and that is my husband’s side of the closet.  He has a ridiculous number of shirts.  Actually, in addition to his ridiculous number of shirts in the closet, he also has a ridiculous number of t-shirts in drawers.  
Now, if he actually [...]

Now, Gail recommends that you start with your bedroom, but my husband’s sick and still in bed, so I’m going to let him stay there a little longer.  She also considers the living room and dining room two separate rooms, but ours clearly are not.  In fact, as you can see they are my library [...]

The first thing to know, as I enter my “Throw Out Fifty Things: Weekend are the essential rules of Gail Blanke’s “Throw Out Fifty Things”.  
In the introduction, Gail tells us it is her goal to help us chisel our way out from all our extraneous JUNK in our lives, as Michelangelo chiseled his sculptures from [...]