Instead of writing, I’m writing a blog post about cleaning out the closet in my office.
First thing, the closet is filled with empty containers. No wonder I don’t have room for anything in here. I next encountered three alarm clocks still in boxes, funny since I’m always late.
Just found my Gramms’ old photo album perfect distraction. I can flip through these for a while. Ah, my eyes! There’s a picture of my Gramms in her industrial brassiere and a man’s tie around her neck drinking whiskey from the bottle. No, it wasn’t taken yesterday, she looks about twenty. I see what Gramps was attracted to, but I wonder who’s taking the pciture?
Four beanie babies I’ll set those aside for the kidlings.
Cloth grocery bags I never take to the grocery store. Perfect for storing the twenty plus empty containers.
Something in a box from IKEA called Rationell. Don’t know what it is. The only picture on the box is of a man throwing away trash. Those Swedes are so neat. Opened it. Put it together. Still don’t know what it is. I’m using it to hold notebooks on my desk.
Lots of trash, extra wrapping paper. Huge matted balls of cables for who knows what. Pictures that were never hung.
Oh dang it, Blind Dog made off with one of the beanie babies. Think it was a grey dog. Too late, Blind Dog’s chewed the nose off.
My apologies to Blockbuster. Apparently you didn’t lose that movie several years ago. My bad.
That’s about it. Wait somethings in the very back. Okay, no clue how this got back there. Tucked in the very back behind the vacuum and several large pictures is a lasso, a green lasso. I have absolutely no idea where that could have come from.
Check your closets. If you find a stray cowboy, send him round for his lasso.
Sounds like a good start to the new year. Never too early for spring cleaning I say 😉
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Would you like to come over for tea? I have lots more to go. It’ll take me until spring.
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I think I’ve just found where the back of our under-stair cupboard goes to…
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Crap is it an exit only or can I push some stuff back that way?
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I don’t recognise at least half of it, so I’m guessing 2-way. (Or more, of course!)
I did once find a cowboy boot though…
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I feel exactly the same way about Ikea. I buy their stuff and then have NO idea what I’m supposed to do with it! =)
Love the post! =)
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It’s got a wooden thing that should hang on the wall and lots of wire things? Just don’t know. Thanks.
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you always make me laugh i cannot wait to be able to afford to hire you as a writer.you have a voice that just says listen .happiest of new years to you hope all your wishes for the new year manifest.
orin
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Thank you so much. Specially for your new year’s blessing. I appreciate it.
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You are so funny… I love your sense of humor.
Jeanna
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Thanks and my closet thanks you.
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😉
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Funny! organizing in a closet mess is always an adventure. I spent most of the time deciding IF I really need the things or IF i throw all away. The time remained i dream looking at the stuff…. At the end of the day i am messy or tearful or sad or covered in unsorted things i wanted to clean….
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At least I got the stuff back in the closet that I want to stay there. And Blind Dog got a new friend. I’m feeling productive now. Thanks.
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I’m almost afraid to ask why you might have a lasso in your closet but I’ll keep an eye out for a cowboy hat! sure! 😀
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I’m thinking I don’t remember that night at all!
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Head on back to the closet again, there might be a new adventure of things to take out lol 😀
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New closet, new adventures. There are so many more to go.
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I always enjoy reading your post. Keep it up and thanks again.
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Thank you.
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Definitely no whiskey drinking granny or sexy cowboy in my cupboards ;(
I hope the springclean inspires some good writing.
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Thanks. Here’s to whiskey drinking Grandmas and inspired writing.
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Loved it, I didn’t get to the closets yet. Great writing as always. ….:)
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Chuckled out loud at the cowboy comment. Happy New Year, Deidra!
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Thanks. You have a great new year too. And I mean it if you find him …
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Now my office looks like the closet vomited on it.
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Thank you for the ‘likes’. Every time I have gone into a closet..physical, mental, whatever I have found a surprise. CC usually manages the ‘storage factor’ so when we look in there we always find something fun..esp since we have both taken to the ‘safe and clean with no memory of where’ type packing..your post is a gas..Peace Tony
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That’s great. Apparently I’m not alone in the closet weirdness.
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Nice vid. Makes Walter Mitty average. If you find the last 30 years in your closet, they are mine and I want them back.
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You can have them. LOL
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Are you sure you weren’t cleaning out my closet? It’s amazing the findings that are stored in those out of sight places.
Happy New Year.
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If so, break down with the cowboy.
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breakin’ down……
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LOL! Funny as always…as I’m packing a house to move, it looks like ALL my damn closets vomited in unision…sigh…this is gonna take SO long to clean up! :o) Have a great new year…BTW, I DID find several pairs of cowboy boots…Happy New Year Deidra! Thanks for the smile.
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Okay, you got the boots and I got the lasso.
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I think there’s more to that lasso than you’re letting on.
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I wish!
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Loved this post….and the comments are hilarious! Also loved that you started the year without a “New Years post” but with great humor and fun! Since my word for the year 2012 is JOY, this fits perfectly! THANK YOU! xo
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Thanks. You do honor to my prograstination.
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🙂 Thank you, I needed this!
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lol I also didn’t write my list of ‘new things to try’ when I should have been doing it – like you I was too busy clearing out my office. I want to be able to have somewhere work focussed to sit this year (rather than the sofa as I am currently doing) and we have a whole room as a dedicated office space – but even though we moved in a year ago it has remained a junk room – not any more! New Years Day was spent blitzing it – things for the loft and lots for the charity shop and skip and finally a room we can use, just a small amount of odds and ends to home now 😀 I think this clearing space is a good goal in itself to set us all up for achieving our other goals for the year ahead – decluttering always leave you feeling more free to focus on other things! 🙂
Happy New Year!
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I agree with you very cathartic. Now maybe we can taggle the goals thingie. 🙂
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This opened up some old wounds. As I finished reading, I sat here staring at my home work space, remembering how I’d decided to clean it up and make it more efficient. Alas, this memory has not yet come to fruition. However, with your post, I did feel a slight tug in that direction. So thank you for that. And thanks to Selena for the nudge to come check out your space. Awesome! You have a new follower.
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Thank you and to Selena a big super thanks. If it makes you feel better the closet is spotless and the office is a shambles. Best intentions and all.
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You are both so very welcome!
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Closets, attics and basements are great for reminiscing. They hold remnants of our past lives, much of which we have forgotten.
This paragraph made me laugh out loud – “Something in a box from IKEA called Rationell. Don’t know what it is. The only picture on the box is of a man throwing away trash. Those Swedes are so neat. Opened it. Put it together. Still don’t know what it is. I’m using it to hold notebooks on my desk.”
Thanks for this!
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Thank you. It must have seemed like something I couldn’t live without with I bought, but now who knows?
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I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award!
Go here to see your nomination on my blog:
http://bluebirdblvd.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/bluebird-blvd-won-two-awards/
The rules of the award are:
Nominate 15 fellow bloggers.
Inform the bloggers of their nomination.
Share 7 random things about yourself.
Thank the blogger who nominated you.
Add the Versatile Blog Award logo on your blog post.
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Thanks. I appreciate the nomination.
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I bought reusable grocery bags a year ago and still haven’t used them. I don’t know how to make myself remember, other than to store them in my car. Oh wait, I do that and it still doesn’t work. Maybe that will be my new year’s resolution.
Good luck figuring out the origins of the lasso. Let us know if you do, I’m curious.
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You aren’t the only one wondering about that lasso. And glad to know I’m not the only one with bag issues.
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A Lasso can be a very useful tool. Try being an arm-chair cowgirl. With practice, the possibilities are endless.
*I couldn’t fit the list into this reply window, but i’m thinking of creating a 365 days calender: “things to do with a lasso if your not a cow-person” (being politically correct and all)
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I think that would be a roaring great series of posts. Go for it.
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Great post. Always good to start with a laugh and a clean closet to boot! I know I sometimes decide to clean or organize something when I am feeling overwhelmed. Helps me focus I guess. Happy New Year!
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Focus is what I need, so let’s hope it helps. Happy New Year to you too. Thanks.
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Fun & true. Got my eye out for the cowboy;)
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Let me know if you stumble across him!
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Hi Deidra. That is one funny article on the closet. You do have a sense of humor worth writing about. I was recently critiqued to watch my spelling. Being dyslexic I sometimes miss seeing the transposed or left out letters. I noticed a few in your article also. Perhaps we as Bloggers are not as sensitive to this as much as editors are. Just a heads up. Keep writing. Mary Ellen Ryall, author.
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Thanks Mary. I think there is also much more rush put on getting a post out than a manuscript. I review things I’m sending to editors 10 or 20 times and have many friends review first. A blog post can’t take that amount of time and effort or I would never get anything posted. I appreciate specifics when you find them. I don’t mind making improvements. Thanks.
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Such a good feeling to clean and organize, you may have just inspired me to do a little organizing of my own… what a great way to start 2012!
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Good for you strike while the irons hot!
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[…] I read a post form Deidra Alexander about “Coming out of the closet.” It was so cute and funny that now I’m on a mission to de-clutter and organize my […]
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Thanks for including my in your blog. I’m honored.
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the mere thought of organising my closet scares me …
too much stashed in it …
it will take a few posts like this to get the work all done:)
it is surprising how much stuff accumulates…
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Ah but consider how much mileage your blog could get out of it.
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Lovely blog site. I will stop in and read more. Thanks for taking the time to stop in and read mine.
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Your very welcome enjoyed your movie review.
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Thank you for visiting my post! I enjoyed “coming out of the closet” as I really need to tackle my own closets. I also love your favorite plot. I have uttered those same words myself!
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Thank you. Hope to hear what wacky things your closet holds.
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Funny…
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I had a good chuckle over this. Very delightful and so terribly true.
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Thank you. There are so many more closets to go around here.
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Love it! In the process of organizing my craft stuff – I wonder what all I will find that I forgot I bought? My only problem – – – I keep stopping to do that craft project I find! I’ll never be through! I need someone to keep me on track – – – and away from the glue!!!!
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LOL That’s greatness. You do a crafting from the closet blog using stuff you find in your closets.
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🙂 But seriously, cleaning out your closet is the perfect way to start the new year! You’re declaring with actions that 2012 will be a more organized and productive year.
(Can you tell that I’m taking a break from my own cleaning project and trying hard to make 2012 the year I get myself organizized?)
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That sounds very Obi One Kenobi.
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Howdy, ma’am. Be right kind o’ you if’n I could get that back sometime…nice post!
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LOL Good one. It’s right where you left it, Partner.
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Great title! And your Grandma sounds like the sort of interesting person I would love to have met. 🙂 Suspect it runs in the family . . . .
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Ah (halo shining brightly) I’m not sure what you’re getting at?
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Hilarious!
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I did my usuall post christmas clear and ended up shreding receiped for two days. Poor shreder has been sent to a resort to recover.
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Hopefully it doesn’t find itself in the back of a closet somewhere!
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Could you please come clean my storage cupboard out? It’s been on my to do list for 10 days now but every time I open it, stuff leaps out and attacks me so I slam the door shut and get back to reading everyone’s blogs instead. least here no one attacks me .. !!
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My problem isn’t organizing the stuff inside, it’s all the stuff left in piles in the room when I’m finished that’s the problem.
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Deidra, I’m glad that you are out of the closet. I have always loved hearing about lost things found in unexpected places. I loved the picture of your grandmother. It reminded me of the stories about my grandmother being the best hooky-bobber in her area. She even broke her arm on her wedding day. For those that don’t know, hooky-bobbing is tying your sled to a vehicle and then being pulled.
As for the lasso, have you checked your other closets? You might find the rest of the set.
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Good idea. I’ll have to start the search. Do cowboys respond to Marco Polo?
And wow, your grandmother was rockin’!
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This was an excellent and funny post. 🙂 ♥Happy ♥New ♥Year ♥ & TY for the blog love! 🙂
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I’m a seeing eye person too! My little blind dog is the best dog. Funny post, thanks for the smile this evening 🙂
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I love my Blind Dog. (Not her real name as I’m afraid some internet stalker will ask her to help them find a little child and kidnap her.)
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No cowboys found yet, still looking/?hoping.
Good start on the new year, hope it continues well for you!
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Thank you keep up the search he’s got to be somewhere.
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Are you telling the truth about that grandma photo? That is awesome! All the photos of my grandmother seem to have been taken in her kitchen. Very sad.
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That photo was loose in the book and was the only tell-tale sign that she had a less than grandmotherly side to her.
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I just became your “like # 69” and there will be no further comment on that. I’m very glad that you’ve come out of your closet, because in doing so, you’ve reminded me that I need to get back into mine. (me being out of the closet was starting to upset my wife – she’s very sensitive) A green lasso, huh? I’d like to say it’s mine, but that wouldn’t be true – and with all these comments and likes here, I’m sure that at least several someone elses have already tried to claim it, whether it’s really theirs or not.
And hey, you look good as a Lakota Sioux Chieftess! That got an immediate and appreciative laugh from me. 🙂 And thanks for liking my post with the title that’s very long and I’m too lazy to type here right now. How’s that for shameless non self promotion? Lol 😉 Happy 2012 Deidra! You’re a talented and entertaining trip, and a trip that I’d like to make. (Will the cocker spaniel read this? Oh the suspense! lol)
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It’s a lovely picture, but that’s not me. Thanks anyway. I’ve only had one other taker on the lasso by the way. So it may still be up for grabs.
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That was funny, thanks. Happy New Year!
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Thank you. Have a happy new year.
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I kind of got excited and emptied my closet looking for a cowboy…no such luck 😦 Happy New Year….great post.
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Oh rats, such disappointment, huh?
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No…you couldn’t make that up! A green lasso? Love it!…..Thanks….always can count on fresh writing & a good laugh…a tough combo….perfect.
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Thank you. No the lasso is still there. I put it back in case I need it.
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Leaving you the Candle Lighter Award to post on your wall and not store in your closet…hehe 🙂
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You are appreciated!
Here’s to a powerful 2012!
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Thank you very much. Here’s to hoping we both have powerful 2012s!
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Love the post… oh the lost crap we discover we once needed… so funny.
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Apparently I was in need of rustling up some cattle.
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Wow..I randomly read this after I had just finished wading through a sea of crap in my apartment…ever wonder why one would need a foam plumeria hair clip, a glue bottle with a Japanese panda on it, and an instruction manual for a coffee maker no longer in one’s possession all in the same box? 0_o??!
In short…you have an awesome closet. And props to the IKEA Box of Mystery.
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Keep the foam plumeria hair clip that could come in handy.
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hello Deidre, nice to meet you!
i really like your blog.
thank you for your comment to my short story “how i became a writer”.
best wishes!
m
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You’re very welcome. Thanks.
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Your such a great writer. I enjoy reading your work.
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Thanks.
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I can so identify with this. My New Year’s resolution last year was to clear out my crap. I visited many closets, got scared in a few and probably threw out the cowboy without looking. YeeeHaaaaa!
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Oh bad move, could have used the cowboy.
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I’m afraid to open mine.
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Yeah, mine also contained a spider that bit me. Not fun.
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Nothing beats a good old spring clean…except when trying to write a dissertation or do something actually useful and you find yourself playing with the board games your younger brother got for christmas 5 years ago…Yes, that was me 😦
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Oh bad. You must return to the writing posthaste. Good Luck, obviously very smart person.
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You did the right thing! One shouldn’t force writing, instead, just write about what you feel like writing about! 🙂
Enjoyed reading it, as usual!
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I think you are right. Thanks, excellent advice.
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I’ll be honest, my closet scares me. I open it quickly, through in what I need to and shut it as fast as possible.
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I would love to be all super organizy, but still working on it.
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Yeah, Spring Cleaning. I cleared out the closet before Christmas. Frightening what I discovered inside…why were there old Christmas cards in there?
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I would have cut off the backs and sent them to new people, but I’m cheap.
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Hi there! I know you’ve had the honor before but I just nominated you for a Versatile Blogger award. Happy 2012. More here http://shortandfun.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/versatile-blogger-award-you-like-me-you-really-like-me/
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Thanks. I swear I’m adding a new tab for awards next weekend.
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I plan on doing much cleaning out this month. Hope it is as interesting as yours!
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Good luck with that. I plan on one closet a year and in ten years I’ll be done. 🙂
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Sounds like it is time for a yard sale. We plan on moving in about 18 months and started last winter…cleaned out the attic. Well, maybe organized it better and managed to clear about half of it would be a better description. Had a yard sale in the spring….still have a lot remaining that we will add to THIS spring’s sale…after we attack the garage! MY personal goal is to get rid of so much of the clothes I have that I can get it all in one dresser!
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I just can’t bring myself to suffer through a yard sale. I try to find people who need/use the stuff I don’t want.
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Laughed out loud at this: “Four beanie babies I’ll set those aside for the kidlings.”
I do love your writing – it’s a bright spot in my daily blog reading rounds.
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Thank you. I’m honored to be a bright spot and anyone’s horizon.
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Okay. I had to google it. I’m trying figure out which one of these things you might use to hold notebooks –
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/categories/series/08078/
And now that I’ve spent so much time on your post, I feel like I can ask, “Seriously? You found a picture of your grandmother partying in a bra? You do know that must be enlarged, framed and prominently displayed, right?”
I love uncovering evidence that our predecessors were real people too.
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None of those. The thing I have is a small long wooden base with metal hooks in one side.
And yes, I really found a picture of Gramms in her undies, man’s tie around her neck, and whiskey bottle in her hand.
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Come on over, I have three closets that you could mine. Fair game to keep anything you find unless it’s an old photo album. How do empty closets manage to acquire do much junk?
Some hold vintage clothing that should be back in style next year, so maybe I should hang onto them a while longer. Oh, there’s that cute jacket with the moth holes, maybe I can figure out how to fix that. The kids’ high school year books they promised to take but keep forgetting, a daughter’s wedding dress she wanted to save for her daughter. The daughter is 5’3″, her daughter is 5’11” most unlikely it will ever be worn again.
So just wave a magic wand and make them all disappear and we will all be good.
Cheers to a clean, organized and great 2012!
Shez
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You should give the yearbooks to your kids as gifts and the wedding dress to her granddaughter. That gets it out of your house anyway.
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Just started my Springfling: It always comes on the heels of attempting to tuck away Holiday gear…headfirst into closet, arms whipping whatever odd items have somehow escaped storage and comes to my hand over my shoulder out of closet onto dresser, bed and floor to be sorted after flung. The finds: Grandpa’s boyscout scarf (which I now use as hair accessory) and bunch of matchbooks collected from little girl years to teenage years, stuffed in crumbling shoebox to be forgotten until today (which contents include a little bag of ashes from Mt. St. Helen eruption tied inside matchbook from a stay in the region) There! What’s that fuzzy pile sticking out in all directions? Oh. My son’s snow hat from his first ever snowboarding trip in first grade, a bright blue and black, tri-tipped-jesteresque affair…hmmm, he might want that back…but he is twenty-one years this January 2012. I think I’ll just hang onto that jester hat for a while longer. I love a good Springfling, thanks for sharing yours.
C.K. Garner
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What are you going to do with the matchbooks?
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Procrastination cleaning. This is all too familiar.
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Funny how the things you were supposed to do yesterday become the things you do today to avoid the new things. Hopefully that made sense to someone.
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Thanks for the Like:-) Much appreciated. This post is brilliant and the theme is so familiar- we moved from a shared house; during our tenure, our under-stairs cupboard bred 6 duvets, a pogo stick, a hamster cage and a pair of roller blades a size smaller than anybody who ever lived there. Baffling.
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Amazing the things you find tucked away.
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So glad you ‘liked’ my blog (Thank you!) – it lead me here….where I’m delighted to find a like-minded soul! I’ve just spent the last two days clearing closets; sorting, gathering and finding new homes for all my treasured bits and pieces (art materials, memorabilia, books, crafts, fabrics etc which were previously scattered all over the house). It was all too tempting to sit and reminisce, pouring over long lost items but I kept up the pace and I now have this immaculate, super-organised space – my new ‘studio’ (well a tiny room in the attic actually) – and a door! I can finally shut out all worldly distraction and get down to work……..Well that was the plan, only problem is, everything’s SO tidy now, I can’t bring myself to mess it up! Also, I now have a view…. over the roof tops of Central London, with its ever-changing light and cloud formations, which I just can’t seem to tear my eyes away from…….I keep telling myself to get a grip and make a start…..but then just head back downstairs….for yet another cup of tea……..
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I have a friends whose craft closet is absolutely beautiful it’s so well organized. Overlooking the rooftops of London. I can probably help you mess it up.
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LOL! Now THAT sounds like a plan!
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Found someone with the boots, now I just need the rest of him.
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A stray cowboy! I will certainly keep my eye out for one of those. My entire bedroom is my craft room. It is a disaster. I have no idea where to start. Ok well that’s not entirely true. A few weeks before Christmas I did start with all of my photoshop books. I moved them from side of the room to the other. That was it.
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Bully, best of intentions and all that. Bravo!
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I don’t remember how many movies I rented from Blockbuster only to end up buying them through losing them…and then rediscovering them under my car seat a year later…
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I didn’t pay for mine. I insisted they lost it. Ooops.
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I should have thought of that…haha
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Funny! Thanks for the laugh! 🙂
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Thank you. Glad you enjoyed.
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I got rid of the cowboy and his lasso…he couldn’t have even dug your hole for the tree you got as the useless, chore gift. Get rid of the lasso, don’t look for the matching cowboy – LMAO.
I don’t even open my closet – just bought a new stand alone hanging cabinet/closet for my stuff.
Kudos to you on your industrial behavior – are you available to clean off desks?
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Only if I can keep what I find.
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I got a cowboy hat here! Do we know if the cowboy is cute? If he is I’ll look real hard!
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I think a real cowboy transcends cute!
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Depends on if we are talking about one that is older than dirt or not. They’re different kinds of cute. 😉
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So true.
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I found a set of spurs. Who the hell has that cowboy? 🙂
God, I have no idea what I would do if I found a picture of my grams like that! I might have to rinse my eyes with bleach.
Why do we save useless items? My garage is full of them…
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We have lasso, boots, hat and spurs. Chaps anyone?
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I am a pro at keeping the most random bullshit thinking that I’ll need it one day… granted once I finally do, a few months later I inevitably think to myself “now where the hell did I put that lasso…?”
Great post!
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That’s always my problem. Now where did I put that lasso I’ll probably think in a month or so.
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great post. love the humour. happy new year and hope you have a good one
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Thank you and you have an inspiring 2012.
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This is hilarious! And you have somehow also managed to inspire me to clean out my closet!?!?! Well done!
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See what you can find. It could be a scavenger hunt.
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Thanks. You have a prosperous 2012!
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Honestly, it sounds like my office space, except for the green lasso. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
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Seriously, no lasso? I can’t be unique.
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I’ve nominated you for a Kreativ Blogger Award: http://ayeshaschroeder.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/who-knew-i-was-kreativ Have a great New Year!
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Thank you so much for your nomination. I’ll be adding an awards page this weekend.
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Wow…Were you in my house? Sounds like it.
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Perhaps we share space in an alternate universe. 🙂
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I’m actually scared to look into some office drawers. It’s like it’s a different world in there and not a friendly one at that!
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Congratulations – I think your blog is great and really enjoy reading it.
You have been awarded the Versatile Blogger Award by the Journal of an Adventurous Mother at http://www.adventure-mum.com
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I’ll be adding an awards tab this weekend. Thank you for your generous nomination.
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Great story… but sorry, I don’t think I have your missing cowboy. When you remember why you have the green lasso, you must let us know. I think the strangest things I have in my office closet are catnip and an old Boys II Men Christmas CD. 😉
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Hopefully you’ve had a cat to go with it.
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A closet full of empty containers…. I love it!
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The large empty containers are now filled with the smaller empty containers. So they’re containers containing empty containers.
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Your blog made me laugh out loud this morning. Perhaps it could be a scene incorporated into a story sometime.
Thanks for stopping by my blog to and ‘liking’ my post. It reminded me to pop over and read your blog again.
Happy New Year and Happy Newly Cleaned out Closet 🙂
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Thanks Like the footprints on your header by the way.
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Thanks for the like! Interesting blog you’ve got with some beautiful pictures! http://www.lavellcharlemagne.com
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I think you’re a brilliant artist whether you go printing or knitting. But I personally love your print screens.
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Wow, you’ve got a lot of (fun) stuff in that closet, or else it’s just really big. I love to clean closets and organize. I’ve even done it for my friends. Thanks for stopping by my blog and ‘liking’. As you could see, it was my first post… I’ve got lots more up my sleeve!
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Welcome to the blogging club. Looking forward to more posts.
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Some things are too hard to throw away! It’s always nice to have a distraction, especially when it’s your Grandma!
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Yeah, I keep trying to forget about that picture. My shrink is already contracting for a new pool.
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A charity collection bag was posted by some good-hearted soul over the weekend, so I decided to get rid of jacket I have only worn once, about 5 years ago. I was on a roll. In the end I had to tip everything out to organise it to get back into the bag. Then I filled in the document for the charity to claim tax back. My halo was positively glowing!
Halfway through the next morning, the bag was still in the hallway, it was raining heavily and the winds were too high to risk putting the bag out. My other half put it out later ‘just in case they haven’t already been round here’.
The bag is still in the hallway – just as well, as yesterday I found the tax document.
The charity has a shop in the next town, so the next time I go here, and it isn’t raining or blowing a gale, I will take it.
So for now, all I have done is move junk from one place to another, (which is what what my other half and my Mother have always complained about), and it is in way every time we pass through the hallway.
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Hey, you’re my twin separated a birth. That’s my claim to charity fame too!
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Thanks for the Like! I’ve been doing a little cleaning myself. No cowboys yet, though there’s probably an image of one hiding in one of my art books.
Thanks also for your blog, my hat is off to you and your writing skills 🙂
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Thanks to much. I love art and artist. I wish I had such talent. so my hat’s right back off to you.
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Loved the closet adventure. (Lasso from an Irish cowboy honoring St Patrick perhaps?)
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I wouldn’t turn me down an Irish anything!
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Thanks for the blog love.
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A year and a half ago we moved. I was supposed to do all that cleaning out stuff then…Nooooo! We ended up rushing so much I didn’t cleanse the junk and paid ridiculous amounts to have it brought to our new house. Now I have a garage and several closets that have way too much unknown stuff in them…perhaps that cowboy is in there somewhere 🙂
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Sounds like you might have the cowboy and his horse.
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Hi, Deidra. A green lasso is inspired. I wouldn’t look too hard for that cowboy, you might need it yourself.
My favorite thing about your blog is your energy. Not sure I’ve ever seen someone so prolific.
Happy New Year,
Sara
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Oh you so rock. One of my fears of blogging is running out of stupid. Hopefully that’s not possible.
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I don’t think you’ll run out of inspiration anytime soon. Ideas are like muscle tissue, put them to good use and they get bigger and stronger.
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I just spent 3 days organizing my work space and after a week of work in that newly neatened room, it’s all aclutter, not as bad but not as neat. When you find out how it’s possible to keep it neat, let me know. And always, thanks for the smiles your posts bring.
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I find all sorts of great stuff around this old house. The PO didn’t clear it out before moving. My favorite find so far-a fabulous desert painting! Oh, and then there were the playboys from back in the 60s I should have sold but was too afraid my littles would find them so they got tossed.
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Oh man. If I had those old playboys I would be so auctioning them on ebay! That’s awesome, previous own left nothing good here. 😦
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Very very me, I can live in chaos for days sometimes weeks (but never any longer) I always find it so therapeutic to clear out. Something I tend to do when feeling insecure or anxious or my creativity is lacking. Am I sad?! Thanks for like.
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Sing it, sister!
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A have been smiling for the past half hour as I stroll through your blog – you have such a great outlook on life. I will visit again soon. And thanks for stopping by my blog.
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My motto – If life gives you lemons, ask life to pass the vodka. Thank you so much.
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Thanks and my closet thanks you.
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Find anything interesting?
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Just the name Rationell makes me think “storage for thing you will rationalize never returning to finish”. Total IKEA product.
Red.
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LOL That should be a storage self description. Or stuff you’re meaning to donate storage.
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oh you’re TAME compared to what would be unearthed in my closet, my storage unit, my friend’s barn. I am the quintessential packrat…. again thanks for your faithful reading of my little animal book.
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I should come by your place before I go shopping.
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I especially enjoyed the lasso and the Rationell. 🙂 Thanks for liking a picture on my blog and thus making me aware of yours. Very entertaining – I’ll be back!
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Thanks same to for me. Hope to catch up with you soon.
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“Something in a box from IKEA called Rationell. Don’t know what it is. The only picture on the box is of a man throwing away trash. Those Swedes are so neat. Opened it. Put it together. Still don’t know what it is. I’m using it to hold notebooks on my desk.”
That made me laugh! I have encountered things that have no function that I am aware of, you just made it your own is all! Don’t throw it away tho, you will remember what it is AFTERWARDS! 🙂
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I don’t know what it was before, but it’s a notebook holder now. 🙂
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I genuinely enjoy reading through on this site, it holds good articles . “I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.” by Charles M. Schulz.
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You might have my blog confused with someone elses. Mine isn’t very useful.
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Just hilarious! I must say that you certainly have an interesting way with words. I’m glad that you took a moment to drop by my blog. I have enjoyed exploring your blog. I wish you much success in 2012. 🙂
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Thank you and wishing you the best for 2012!
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I love you! (OK, put your eyebrows back down, that’s not what I meant!) 😉
Thanks for the laugh this morning… I needed it. ~ Lynda
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I’ll take all the love I can get. Thanks.
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I’m all for lassoing hot cowboys. Thanks for the visual! Lol.
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Glad to be of help!
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Your wit combined ith brevity is immensely entertaining. I enjoyed the beanie babies image. Very well done.
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Thanks and Blind Dog is still chewing away on her catch of the day.
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Ridiculous IPhone lag.
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My phone chokes a lot on my email. 🙂
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Excellent post. Got to love looking through a closet finding things you’ve lost or forgotten. Not to mention finding things that you didn’t realize you ever had or even what it is in the first place. I am really curious about the IKEA thingy. Wonder what it is…
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It definitely is supposed to hold something but that only eliminates about .05% of their stock.
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Hi Deidra,
When it comes to cleaning out the closet, I always find so many reasons to keep the things I need to throw away. It’s so hard to say ‘goodbye.’ Thank you so much for reading our ‘In Living Color’ post. Have a great day.
– G
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I’ve been trying to put a couple things in the donation pile every few days.
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I have a closet as big as a room. At first so clean and spare but with all that space it seemed ok to store a few things there and there and there and now I know….I’ll clean it out tomorrow. Good reminder thanks. I’m keeping my cowboy stuff though.
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Oh yeah, never get rid of the cowboy stuff. Could always come in handy. 🙂
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You’re too funny on here! 🙂 I LOVE your blog!
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Thank you love your photos
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I enjoy your writing style and h!1
ronelle
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Thank you. Appreciate your kind words.
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Purging … a wonderul feeling once it is done. I make it a habit to do it every three months. I figure if I haven’t used it or need it maybe someone else will. I suppose that’s why you can’t remember where the lasso came from. I have a cowboy but I just looked na he has his lasso right around his neck where it belongs. LOLOL
Belated Happy New Year 2012 … my wish for you year ahead is below …
Isadora
http://insidethemindofisadora.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/a-toast-for-the-new-year/
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I should clear out every 3 months, but that just isn’t happening here. Enjoy the cowboy.
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Organizing my writing room has been on my “To-Do List” for at least one year. I want to clear out all the junk in the closet and book in bookshelves. Right now, it’s filled with boxes stuffed with old manuscripts and other detritus from a writing life.
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Paper is the bane of my existence.
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I have bags that seem to have no other purpose than to hold other bags, and bags that are too nice ever to be used to hold anything. I would clear my cupboard (I’m English,, we don’t have closets) but I’m scared that when I reach the back, the White Witch and Aslan will leap out at me.
Thank you for liking my blog post; I wouldn’t have found your blog otherwise, and you’re very droll.
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Super cool fear. We have none here. Maybe sparkly vampires.
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If you really do have a blind dog, bless you! Animal advocacy is huge in my life, and while I probably shouldn’t admit it, dogs are my favorite!
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She is blind, was beaten and used as a bait dog in dog fights. I’ve had her a long time. Now she’s just a lazy old dog.
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You write wonderful!
Thanks for liking my pictures
Please check my paintings blog which is my passion
I do paintings and collages
loniduekart.wordpress.com
Hope u like it too
😉
Loni
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Thanks. I’ll have to check it out.
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I’ve got a cowboy for you. He’s almost two, talks a little, eats a lot, and has his own stick horse and hat. He moonlights as a cop. Cops could use a lasso every now and then.
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How cute!
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Found in the terminal moraine emerging from my closet;
a) a black plastic electrical ‘wigget’ stamped ‘NZ,Aus,Fiji ONLY’
b) hand-written notes from my Welsh sister-in-law on how to make GOOD ‘Laver Bread’ – i. no, it has nothing to do with bread, ii. you REALLY don’t want to know!
c) yet another copy of ‘Aircraft of the Royal AIr Force, 1918 – 1958’ by Owen Thetford
d) a can of ‘Foaming Glass Cleanser’
I going to put on my second-best HazMat suit, hook a safety line to my big oak table and, as we British say, ‘get stuck in’!
p.s. I find your writing entrancing. An extra hug to Blind Dog, please (read him the entries on my blog if he needs to get off to sleep!)
Ross
http://shortfinals.wordpress.com
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You are a riot. I am also a writer – a journalist by trade – and there are days when I’ll do anything to keep my butt OUT of the chair. Wind yarn, clean out under the bed, put a toothbrush to the tile. Why do we do it? In fact, right now I should be writing a story and instead I am reading your blog!
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Toothbrush to the tile? Are you insane? Lay down, close your eyes and meditate on your story.
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“I next encountered three alarm clocks still in boxes, funny since I’m always late.” Hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.
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Thanks!
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My lasso! But…what was it doing in your closet? O.o Still cracking up about the unknown IKEA object. 😀
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Maybe it belongs to the guy whose boots I found when cleaning out from under by bed. I think it might hold plates. Now it holds mail, not male which would open up a new world of possibilities for naughty IKEA.
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