Today has been Clean Out The Closets Day! And it was well past time for this chore, let me assure you. I told the hubby yesterday that I wanted "us" to tackle this task today, and while he has not been an enthusiastic participant he has indeed helped tremendously. The funny thing about cleaning out closets, though, is that a man can bulldoze through 2 closets while we females are still rummaging through the first shelf of one! And this is because they just lack the sentimentality gene, I suppose. Why, just today I have found my son's high school diploma from 2001 (good to know that he did indeed graduate!), funny little school papers that were tucked here and there, and more sporting equipment than one family should ever have. I have found jock straps and trophies and wrestling ear covers and gloves and balls and glory - more baseball and football trading cards than I even knew were published! Baby brushes and clothes that I will NEVER put on my body again. Gift bags and tissue paper galore, and the list goes on and on...
We have been stringent today about bagging up clothes for Goodwill, taking all extra clothes hangers back to the dry cleaners (gotta be green, people!) and throwing away things that have no purpose or are in sad shape. There is also a yard sale pile currently mounding up in my living room floor, as I do indeed have good intentions to have a sale the first warm weekend of spring. And while my home currently looks as though a tornado blew through, I know that by bedtime tonight we will have straightened things up again and will have such a feeling of accomplishment. This is the year that I am going to try very hard to de-clutter Maison Mason. And for those of you who have been to my house, you know full well what a task this will be!!
It occurred to me when I was knee-deep in memories and nose-deep in dust that organizing and cleaning the closets should also apply to life - we need to occasionally clean out those old memories that no longer fit or that just bring us down and make room for better thoughts, newer ideas. A mental cleansing is needed so that old grudges aren't still being nursed, old sadnesses aren't being wallowed in, and so that old habits can be broken. God does that with our sins, you know - once we turn them over to Him he throws them into the bottom of the deep blue sea, never to be thought of or heard from again! Once I finish with my closet chores today, I think I will get busy on my mental cleanse, too...
Hope you are each having a productive day today!
Dusty hugs and kisses from Lana
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You go girl!! I hear the soundtrack to the movie ROCKY playing in the background.....you are making some big progress! And the mental dusting is always a good thing, too, I agree!
suzanne
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