Backstory: This is part of my ongoing efforts to get rid of clutter, to open up some space and allow more light and breath into my life.
Earlier this week I caught up with my mom. After she gave me updates on various family members and we talked through possible plans for the December holidays, she shared with me what she had planned for her day: “Going through piles, reading the to do list, updating the to do list, sending recipes to friends, going through recipes and setting them aside because I’ll make them some day….”
And I saw my future.
I’m not sharing this with you to in any way dis my mom. But, honestly, I do not want to be looking at the same to do list 30 years from now. I do not want to be spending my golden years sorting through all the stuff and files and papers and projects I’ll get to “some day”.
In fact, I don’t want to be dealing with all this accumulated junk two years from now. So I’m starting somewhere.
P.S. This Tuesday, November 6, is Election Day here in the United States. If you haven’t already sent in your absentee ballot, please consider this your nudge to VOTE!
Way to go Kathleen! My winter project is going through tax records/receipts from 1975. I decided when it rains, this will be my project. Since no rain is in sight, I am allowed to procrastinate.
BTW, you can drop off an early ballot in any drop-off location in California or take it Tuesday to any polling place to place in the ballot box.
1975. Ha! Have to say, that makes me feel only slightly better about the old stuff in my piles of clutter. 🙂
Thanks for the note about dropping off ballots. I’m hoping for a historic turnout tomorrow.