Where Do I Begin?

Though I know this is a constant topic, I can’t help but continue to bring it up. It seems to resurface every couple of days in my world, and I’m having a difficult time figuring out where to start.

I want, and desperately need, to have a garage sale.

On the one hand, we are moving in two and a half short months. I do not want to take all of my belongings with me that I brought to this house. I’m not a hoarder; I’m just a terrible organizer. That statement translates to the fact that I’m not keeping it out of choice, but rather because I can’t seem to focus long enough to begin the process for having a garage sale, or selling things on the Facebook swap pages. Something tells me that will be the best bet for some, or maybe even all, of my stuff.

And on the other hand, I just have too much junk that I don’t need. It’s getting out of control, and the lack of space in this tiny little house is making it worse. I am considering bribing my children with the opportunity of making some money if we can consolidate and get rid of all the things in our house that we no longer need. It’s definitely possible that it will work, but the fact that I can’t focus, I wonder how I will get either of them to do the same.

The part that makes me the most frustrated is that I know plenty of people who don’t seem to have this issue. In fact, I went to a friend’s child’s birthday party the other day of one such friend, which I believe is what reignited the flame. My sister and I walked all around her house and not once did I see piles of clutter, stacks of paper, or random odds and ends out of place. How she keeps it looking so immaculate with two little boys in the house, I will never understand, but it wasn’t even just that. I hate that I can’t look around my house and not see piles of things that aren’t of use, or that I don’t have an organizational system for keeping things safe. And every time I think I’ve started to make progress, a couple of days running around with my children changes that.

One day, maybe I’ll be able to focus long enough to get somewhere, but for now, I’ll just sigh and head off to work.