How many things do you put off because you are afraid to fail? Afraid it won't be good enough? Afraid it won't be perfect? I am guilty of this in so many areas of my life. This article and this one both found deep in the archives of one of my favorite financial blogs, Get Rich Slowly, had me thinking about more than just saving money.
I know we all procrastinate for perfection in our homes as well. Why even clean the room when you don't like the furniture? Why paint the walls--what if the color turns out weird? What if it's wrong? Why even put out the effort if I cannot do it 100% correctly?
I was talking to my sister on the phone today and we were both feeling like we had too much stuff. For her it was toys for her children, for me it was lamps, frames and various tasteful tchotchkes. We both started feeling overwhelmed and then she said "the only way I'll ever be able to get through all these toys is if I have 2 days strait without my kids around." Don't we all feel like that? I feel like the only way to get rid of my stuff is to move and make sure I don't "need" it. It's too much work right now. But instead of giving up and waiting to move, why don't I just get rid of a little bit every week? I make a weekly trip to the thrift store, I could drop off stuff then.
Whether it's saving money, cleaning the house, brushing your teeth or decorating, these things done incorrectly are still worth doing even if they aren't done to perfection. Simple Mom addresses the idea of aiming for excellence not perfection. Love her.
What are you putting off because you can't do it the way you feel like you should?
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Some of the things I have done to decorate my basement, I don't think are "good enough" for my main floor. Actually, my basement looks pretty good, so I need to have more faith in what I could do for the area of my home that most people see! Thanks for helping me see that it doesn't have to be perfect. Why, oh why, have I always thought that it needed to be?
ooooh, that's a question with a long answer. I have mountains of things I have been putting off because I dont have the time right now to really do them right. But I woke up today thinking I need to tackle some of that long list, so thanks for this post. perhaps I will make a dent in it.
Oh my goodness. Did you read my blog yesterday? This is an area I am struggling some in and put my heart out there for some possible thoughts on this subject. Bless your heart! I will be reading the links that you have there in today's writing. Thank you Nester!
Sincerely ~ Tricia Anne
I don't like too much stuff in my home. One trick I use is that for the last three months EVERY time they (meaning the people who want donations) call here I put a bag of stuff on the porch for them. Do they do that where you live? I always put out something in a bag. Really helps keep the amount of stuff in check.
Excellent post! Well said. I have been working little by little to clear the clutter, and mainly keep up with things. For some reason we all have such a hard time letting go of THINGS and that is not where our joy and happiness should be. Jackie
I am just realizing that one of the dangers, for me, of reading decorating blogs is that my need to accumulate "stuff" (which I had tamed) has reared its ugly head again. Victory came yesterday at the Walmarts, however, when I put two cream pumpkins back on the shelf. I said out loud, standing right there in aisle #927, "I do NOT need these!"
I got rid of 30 unnecessary toys when we got off the phone yesterday. Granted, they weren't all big toys so they didn't take up that much room. But still...knowing they are gone still helps a little.
Gosh I wish I lived closer to you. I am such a helpful, servant-like person that I would gladly come over every week and look through your rejects, and then take -whatever I didn't want myself- to the donation place.
And we could be bff's :)
This post is great. We all need to be reminded of it. There's nothing like showing pictures of your house on a blog to make you realize you've "collected" a little too many treasures. (Of course, I don't post the really bad pictures..)
I am a ruthless declutterer when it comes to other peoples stuff. So maybe I should start my own business!
Practice does not make perfect! Practice makes PERMANENT! We're ALL imperfect and no amount of time or moves will perfect us. Babysteps is the key. Start with the kitchen timer. Put a movie on for the kids and set that timer for one hour. Work like a dog on your project of choice, and when the timer goes off, commit to putting it away until tomorrow, when you'll set the timer once again. It's amazing how much you'll accomplish and it's highly unlikely you'll get burnt out because you're only doing it for an hour at a time! Just a thought...
~audrey
Like my profile says, I'm a frustrated perfectionist! It drives me nutzo when I don't think I've done something perfect. I'll admit after some counseling I've gotten a little better. :) My bedroom and guest room are in need of decorating but I just don't want to move forward and do it wrong. After living here over 2 years, I should probably just go for it! As for clutter, I can't stand it. Too much of anything makes me feel smothered. I used to give EVERYTHING away but have since realized I can use it some way or another or if it's really valuable, I could sell it and pay off debt. My poor mother used to be afraid to leave town for fear I'd dejunk her house. :)
That is soo funny, I was just thinking this morning, if my child was gone for maybe a couple of days I could get my house back to normal. Plus everytime I throw something out she finds it in the trash and retrives it! The organization of my house I keep putting off till I can do it right!
Oh! I put off soooo many things because I don't think I have the time or energy to do it properly. I have a huge case of Overwhelmed Paralysis! I get so overwhelmed by tasks that I can't even begin. Then I just go read a book, craft, be with my kids, or something of the fun sort. Even crafting can overwhelm me at times.
Folding laundry. Most definitely. Also because when I do, my 13 month old just comes and ruins the folded pile anyways. Agh. Thanks for the articles, can't wait to dig in!
Our house is on the market......... Painting the older chick's room and getting real chickens! We are finally having a sale next weekend...I'm going through Christmas extras this weekend. If it doesn't sell, it CAN'T come back in! It heads to our church list and thrift store.
I can't handle clutter anymore. It's been coming on slowly for 10 years. I have to temper it with still having small children. But I notice most of that "clutter" is kitchen toys and crafts of every kind!
I'm so glad you posted about this -I've been feeling like this lately & needed to hear it.
We've recently moved & I just keep feeling like I need something new for here or it won't look right, when I really have too much stuff already.
I think with everything going on in financial markets, I need to just be happy with what I have, donate what I don't & clean up what's left.
Thanks for helping me realize what needs to be done & have a great Thursday.:)
I've been putting off applying for a real teaching position because I feel like I've been out of it so long. I took nine years off to raise my girls, so it's been awhile.
We bought our house four years ago, and it looks like we're just renting it. We don't even have pictures on the wall :( It's just like a container for our stuff and not really our home. I've procrastinated because the money wasn't there to make it "perfect". Why put pictures on the wall to draw attention to the paneling I'm not that fond of? Or why buy nice towels for the bathroom when the shower, the tub, the toilet, sinks and floor are harvest gold??? Yeah, that's been my stumbling block...
Updating the downstairs family room! Thank you so much for your imput. I had lots of imput from your readers. THANK YOU!
We are going to JUST DO IT! This next week after we get back from our weekend trip it's all coming down and being torn out! I can't wait!
I have been working on getting rid of stuff for over a month. I was just sick of the clutter. After a major garage sale, a craigslist weekend, thrift store runs, and a trip to the dump............I finally feel like I have made some head way and can start doing what I really want to do.
It's true...........too much clutter weighs you down!
Timi
umm, mine is rather simple but I have three pair of capris laying on my floor in a pile now for about 2 months. They just need new buttons sewed on them. I'm not a sewer, but I know that I can do it!
hi nester. thought #1: one of my favorite times of year is the 'purge season'. it comes right after the christmas tree comes down. i am relentless, but it feels wonderful to pass on all the extra stuff in my house to others or to the dump. the season happens because i am so sated from all the excess of the holiday, even though we have pared it down each year.thought #2: everyone needs to read your blog on perfectionism. life is about the journey, not the arrival. thanks for your words and keep inspiring us!! jkj
Nester, I love you! I have been struggling with this for a while now. Sometimes I think to myself, "darn that Dave Ramsey! If I still had a credit card, I could . . . (fill in the blank)" But then I realize that our ultimate goal is greater than perfection and this house is not our forever house (and I am glad nit to have the payment). So I trudge to the Habitat store, Lowes and Home Depot and I search for good paint colors in the "OOPS!" section of the paint department. I painted my whole family room for $8.00. I am also finding more and more that the things I've held onto for so long are really not useful, they are just in the way. I just donated a bunch of toys to our church so my kids could still play with them.
I've never posted anywhere before and this question really made me think. We moved a year ago into a new house with just the basecoat of paint. I haven't painted for fear of not painting the right color in the right room or even painting "correctly." This inspires me to just try and choose a color or two(that's quite bold for me). Thanks for the reminder that everybody isn't perfect, so it's okay for me not to be as well.
I'm usually just a lurker here...but this time I had to comment because that desire to be perfect, well it paralyzes me at times. There are so many things I don't do because I'm afraid it won't be good enough...and decorating is one of those things. Oh, I want to, but I'm just not sure I can do it good enough.
Thanks for this post. I'm going to check out all the links now.
Thanks for your "It doesn't have to be perfect" pep talk. I really needed this one today. I was in tears on the phone with my mom last night because I got home from work late and was too tired to be super mom and bake the 4 doesn't cookies I had planned to bake for a school function tonight. I really wanted to be supermom, but I finally headed out this morning and bought 2 pans of german chocolate brownies from the grocery store. Seriously, who's going to care. I like the whole idea of one imperfect step forward being better than no steps at all. Thanks Nester!
Ahhh . . . i need time to reflect a little more and let it sink in. great thought-provoking post.
cleaning out my garage....Thanks for this great reminder!
I tend to put things off because it's not what I would "really do" if I had more money. The bedding set from Pottery Barn would be perfect for my bedroom, but I'm settling for a neutral set from Wal-mart right now, because I really wouldn't be able to sleep on something that's not paid for. It's so much better than what we had, but it's still not what I would do if $$ wasn't an issue. I constantly have to remind myself, idhtbptbb!
Sewing. I'm so afraid that I will mess it up that I put projects off to the last minute. I love crafting but i can't bring myself to really get into it because i'm afraid it won't look nice. I really need to just get in there an do it.
Ok! sooo this is a major ISSUE with me! Our finances have been extremely tight for some time.....climbing out from under some old debt...we downsized into the current "cottage" (at least that's what I call it) , bought used cars, cut up the credit cards and then the "blues" set in....no resources to DECORATE!!! I went into a little slump but at some point decided I WOULD MAKE THIS HOUSE A CHARMING COTTAGE NO MATTER WHAT!!! Garage Sales, Clearance Racks, Thrift stores, friends hand me downs...whatever it takes!! Just do it!! Perfect is unachievable but cozy is definitely a reachable goal...sanity and wallet in tact!
Tracey
polkadotsandpicketfences.com
how about ebay for your tchotckes? I'm sure, with your impeccable taste, that they would sell!
I'm dealing with this very question on my blog today! Great minds think alike... :-)I need help.
Thanks for all the ideas you share.
Ohmygravy!!! What am I not putting off because I can't do it perfectly right now? This post spoke volumes to me. I thought that I was the only one who didn't do things because I couldn't do them perfectly. First, I have a basement FULL of stuff. Stuff that I want to keep, stuff that I want to get rid of, stuff that I want to sell, tons of boxes from the move. You name it. My stuff was in storage for 3 years, so I don't really know what I have. I can close the door to the basement right now, but it still puts me over the edge. Secondly, my office. I don't even know where to start here. Next, all the furniture that I want to paint. I really could go on for a long time, but I have to go back to work that I have been putting off today:)
"done is better than perfect"
my motto. i stole it from a former mentor, and what words to live by! i apply them liberally, and in every area of my life! scrapbooking, dishes, laundry, decorating, sewing...
You and your sister are ganging up on us procrastinators! Sometime you are blog writers - sometimes life coaches. I have pretending I was going to have a yard sale with all the things stored in the guest room - but I think a trip to the Goodwill in is order.
I have found in midst of never having a garage sale, family members off to heaven and hitting Marshalls way too much...I have so much stuff.
When your friends come to visit and they want to shop in your basement storage...it's time to hit the brakes!
A little at a time...I am very organized but organized with a lot of stuff! Great reminder to tackle it!
-Sandy Toes
It looks like a lot of us are dealing with this. I just got paint for my house. My husband was preventing me from painting,he wants a professional to come but I think I can just do my best now since we do not have a ton of cash for a "professional" I say my paint job is better than the dirty chipped paint from 5 yrs ago. We have kids and pets so our walls get a beating.
I found our paint in the "oops" section. It is on my blog. Come and see. It is not perfect.
I also have 2 bags of winter coats to donate from cleaning out the hall coat closet.
One suggestion I've heard to help you get rid of things little by little is to take a paper bag through the house once a week, and fill it with things that you don't need or use anymore. Your goal is then not overwhelming by looking at an entire room to redo or clean up. Your goal is simply to fill the bag.
I have been wanting to paint my kitchen for almost a year now, but have been putting it off because I can't find "Tobacco Road" anywhere. Dang Canada.
I have a giant pile of papers in our den area (that is yet to be decorated. Why? I haven't put on the second coat of paint...since February). This room has the potential to be incredibly adorable, functional and organized, but this giant stack of papers needs to be organized and things need to be shredded and ugh. It gives me a headache thinking about it. Sometimes I get the uption to do it but my DH owns half the pile of junk and I can't pin his bum to the ground to give me a hand. Ugh...ugh...ugh.
I have stuff to decorate with but I don't put it up because we are about to paint our walls...mind you that we have been in the "about to paint our walls" stage for 3 months. But we are painting this weekend. If it the color isn't right, it's going up. At least I will be able to cover it with all the stuff I have ;-)
Oh, and I haven't even developed any of my husband and my wedding pictures, let alone put an album together.
Gosh, I feel like I was sitting in the room while you spoke directly to me. Guess I'm not the only one.
But I have put aside a whole awesome new set of My Little Ponies for those cute nieces of hers. Good thing, Emily got rid of 30 things so that she can have 30 more. :)
Could you have had this conversation with her after I dropped off the stuff?
Stuff...it's my middle name....the only thing standing in the way of finishing off our "attic" is all the STUFF!! UGH! Too much good stuff just to give to Good Will...hee hee
I literally told my friends that they can come and fill up on Christmas STUFF from my attic.
I did feel like this until I started reading your blog. Now I feel like I can tackle anything! I have since painted a couple of rooms, re-done furniture, made art, and had fun doing it. I am usually a HUGE perfectionst that I go crazy if something is crooked or hung wrong, but now I try not to let it get me upset! :)
Oh, thats a good question....I just keep walking by my jewelry drawers that need to clean and re-organized. Also, the laundry room and I have a hate, hate relationship, I just never want to clean it up or organize in there. It's just easier to shut the door
Scarpbooking. My son's baby books and our wedding album. I get all inspired and then realize I don't have all the STUFF it would take to make each page look the way I want, not to mention the equipment to make the STUFF. Yes, there is equipment. I have dabbled in digital scrapbooking and have found it much more budget friendly, but there is such a learning curve in photoshop...
My oldest is four, baby is 20 months and we've been married 8 years. According to my albums, we are newlyweds with a 3 month old!
My bedroom. I want it to be such a perfect romantic haven. First, I put it off because I didn't have all the stuff I wanted for it. Then, it was because I didn't have the cushion inserts for the covers, or new, plump pillows. (I still don't). Then, lastly, the bed broke, and we can't afford a new one. How can you induce romance with a matress on the floor?
My bedroom. I want it to be such a perfect romantic haven. First, I put it off because I didn't have all the stuff I wanted for it. Then, it was because I didn't have the cushion inserts for the covers, or new, plump pillows. (I still don't). Then, lastly, the bed broke, and we can't afford a new one. How can you induce romance with a matress on the floor?
This is really terrible, but my mother died about 18 years ago. I have things I brought from her house, boxes of papers that I just can't bring myself to sort out. It's just too mamoth an undertaking.
I laughingly told my sisters they got all the good stuff, and I inherited about fifty boxes of papers as the family historian/genealogist! Granted, some of the papers are fascinating, including about 50 Civil War era letters, but those boxes are a sign of my guilt for not sorting through them properly.
There, it feels good to confess. I'm sure it would feel even better to sort, pitch, and keep.
Sheila
I always seem to have a laundry basket or two filled with STUFF to put away-all different kinds of stuff-clothes, toys, shoes, hair brushes, nail files...it never ends! I hate taking the time to place the stuff all over the house!!!
Wonderful post-straight from your heart. Seems like a lot of us are on mission to clean out closets, basements and messy storage rooms Wow-what a difference it makes-it is freeing.
Blessings, Karen
without a doubt.....quilting. I love to piece quilts, but I am lousy at the actual quilting of them (machine or hand), so they sit unfinished. One of these days....
Sooooooooooooo many things it makes my head spin!
m ^..^
I'm delurking.
I am a recovering perfectionist. I credit my daughter for that. She is so wild and unpredictable, and has been since she was born. I had to adjust my entire personality to survive the first two years. And I am so, so, so grateful for that. I'm a better person now.
But I do still struggle with it! I'm just kind of crazy now instead of REALLY crazy.
I completely have this issue! I wrote about it in my blog not long ago. My hang ups are why bother period with this house because my carpet is horrible and I can't afford new flooring right now because of my failing business sucking the life out of my finances. I won't let anyone come over to the house because of it. I also am very non-commital with decorating. I feel like I'm going to make a "mistake" if I commit to a certain paint color or furniture or even little giddy-gapper decorations. So, in 6yrs of living in this house, wait for it...I have never really done a lick of decorating. It's horrible. I feel like I'm shorting my husband on a warm, inviting home. I need to get over it! Get on with it and make some decisions. So...yesterday, I bought some kitchen rugs. I was proud of myself. Now, for the rest...
I read you every day and gosh, I get backed up in my reader by a day and I almost missed this gem. Not that everything here isn't a gem. I love what you've said here. I think it's important to be gracious with ourselves, forgiving of our imperfections and embracing of our qualities. I know I don't decorate fabulously or really do much around my home perfectly, but I do try in baby steps to make what I have reflect who I am. The beauty of that is that I am imperfect. How silly would it be to try and make my home perfect? Then it wouldn't be a reflection of me. Thanks for a thoughtful post. Heart you!
My kitchen floor. It has a huge tear in the ugly linoleum but we don't have the funds to put in hardwood floor we want so we are waiting and tripping over the tear!
Kris
I am putting off packing b/c I am afraid something 'bad' will happen to the house deal!
I love Flylady, b/c she just happens to be doing a SUPERFLING while we are dign this so I have been flinging and packing a box at a time instead of feeling like I need to do a whole room at a time.
thanks for the encouragement and push-
I love your blog for getting me excited about doing something
your rss must not be updating in my google reader because i just happened over here and you had 2 posts up that i have missed. glad you're charging for your services now. way to make that cold hard cash. wish i had some talent to offer the internets.
i'm so glad that i don't have to brush my teeth perfectly in order to keep doing it (i don't floss either, shhhh).
Uh, finish my manuscript. It's much safer to have it "almost" ready for publication.
I love that you are so honest with your imperfections--especially around the house. It's a real encouragement and inspiration. You make beauty reachable.
By the way, when I had my email on my blog, I started getting tons of spam. Maybe from programs that mine for those types of things. I now have it like this:
as we walk at comcast dot net
I don't get new spam now. Just the same old junk.
I'm putting off our guest room. We have old (its my in-laws old bedroom furniture from the 80s) furniture that I hate and no money to get new stuff. So, I figure whats the point in decoration when the most obvious problem will still be there!
Boy, you hit the nail on the head that time. This is soooooooooo me :( But I am working on it slowly by trying to sell things on eBay and giving back to GW. It is hard, like an addiction I guess. I am always on the lookout for things to fix up, when it is my house that needs fixin'. Thanks for the blog. Stop by and visit sometime.
Cheryl
Love your site and crave your wisdom. I agree with the baby steps concept. I have small piles of items that are looking for new homes (either in the house, garage, thrift store, etc.) and it makes it much easier to tackle things when I have a few dedicated hours (days) to address them. I have difficulty letting go of things, too, because I often wonder if it's wasteful to remove something now that I may want (again) later and may potentially replace.
As you for you and your house... put your extra stuff in your etsy shop. You know everyone is dying to have a piece of The Nester.
Oh I can so relate to this post!! Do you remember the Friends episode where we find out that neat freak Monica has a closet full of junk? Thats me!!
I have been throwing things into my hall closet forever now. I have been putting off cleaning it out because I want everything to be perfect.
Thanks for giving me a "shove" to start on it!
You know what, I figure today is all I have right now, and if you live in the moment there's no room for perfection....Thank God!! Yes, there are things that I want to do, but I just do what I want, when I want and then tweak it later. With three boys, a dog and a cat, there's no time for long projects. And yes, less is better, but I always feel like a have too much STUFF! I am trying to downsize all of my stuff, which usually ends up in the garage so that I don't have to see it. I believe that if my family and I are happy with everything then it's PERFECT!! Thank you for the link to Simple Mom. I love her site and have gotten so many great ideas.
Corinne
Hey Sister, I am SO glad I found your blog and will be visiting often! A couple of years ago I had a design studio in CA. We did granite and stone and tile, and that sort of thing. We even got to do some model homes, which was fun. Anyway, we've moved back to AZ and I'm back to being a SAHM - which is where my heart is anyway. We just bought a new home a few months ago, and I've been AGONIZING over every single decision and now I'm frustrated because I can't seem to get anything done! And I can't seem to find my personal style! I think part of that is because my friends (from when we lived here before) obviously knew I had a design center, and when new friends find out I had a design studio, they seem to expect my house to be some sort of designers showplace! The studio isn't something I talk about very much, just so you don't think I go around advertising that or something...
Anyway, this post, for me was a HUGE SANITY SAVER! Thanks for the reminder that everything does not have to be perfect. Now I can try to just relax and choose things because I love them, without worrying if it's the perfect match.
THANK YOU!
Everything! My list is so long I can alpabetize it.
Great post.
Apparently, I need to put learn to spell on my list, too- I misspelt alphabetize.
Peace and joy!
Don't we all struggle with this occasionally? You know what they say about how to eat an elephant. One bite at a time.
Everything! That would be my excuse for just about everything I don't complete!!
I have been thinking about you and your saying this a few more times..
because I had delayed everything .. I wanted to do.. for such a long time.. waiting for the perfect time and material and ispiratin.
well I am totally in a crafting hurricane now..
and you have your share in this thanks a lot..
loves..
A couple of weeks ago my husband painted one wall in the living room. Several years ago I tore out the corner fireplace. Our intention was to insulate, sheetrock, texture and paint the hole that was left to match the rest of the room. We got as far as insulation and sheetrock. Recently my husband wanted to hang all his guitars on one wall which led to him patching and paintin one wall in the living room. Yep, one wall looks great and the other three have 16 year old paint and half repaired holes from the removal of windows, wall heaters, and a fireplace.
The bright side to all this is that he is now inspired to finish the room floor-to-ceiling rather than wait until we are ready to move as he originally planned.
Having said all that, it took us forever to agree on a paint color. We also plan to remodel the kitchen and cannot come to an agreement on what to do. Anyone have mad kitchen design skills or advice on how to handle your husband when it comes to designing together?
I'm one of those people that falls into the trap of thinking that if my room doesn't look like it came from a magazine or a catalog that I haven't done a good job. But the logical side of me keeps saying, "you LIVE there, of course it's going to look different."
Our office area is currently the bane of my existence - it's not the room I would want and it's cluttered as all get out, but I don't do anything with it because I know that before I even finish, my husband will have found a way to "make it his" again and I'll be back to hating it. So I sit here and think, "if only."
We just went for 2 weeks without electricity because of Hurricane Ike. No...we don't need all of this stuff...and the house doesn't have to be perfect...BUT...what I realized is, a put-together home is comforting. Not perfect, just put-together. So everyone should stop beating themselves up and just achieve what they feel is put-together and then enjoy!
This very subject has been on my mind! I have made promise to myself to relax and just TRY new things out! Who cares if it doesn't work out the way I planned! I think that giving in to your creativity is much like regaining a child's optimism. When kids are "creating artwork" or "science experiments" they don't have the same "fear of failure" that we adults have developed. I think that by just trying, we are not only helping ourselves to be better artists, but teaching our children that even when things don't turn out as planned we can laugh and as Wilbur Robinson said, "Keep moving forward!"
As for cleaning the house... "Tomorrow is another day!" {{Scarlett O'Hara}}! :-)
Well, that's great EXCEPT for the fact that I've made some very costly mistakes in the past (some major boo-boos while building our house). I made decisions based on what I knew at the time and they all turned out wrong (I didn't know anyone who could help me). Now we're trying to undo some of those mistakes and it's expensive, is taking forever and just no fun. Some things can't be undone (at least not without MEGA bucks).
That is why I have a hard time making even the smallest decisions....because I just have this feeling that everything will come back to haunt me.
Scrapbooking, my friend. I was terrified to start a scrapbook for years because I thought they had to be perfect. So now I have piles and piles of pictures. And my family can't even sit down and look at our photos. But do the kids care that they don't have perfect scrapbook layouts to look at? No!! They're just interested in the memories.
Gosh! What a timely post! My husband and I are also on the Dave Ramsey plan. We moved last February (2007) back to my hometown for a lot of reasons but one was that my family owns a house that we could live in free and clear. My husband can live pretty much anywhere with his job (as long as it is in his territory), so we went for it. Now the house is very small and old, but it's free so I try not to complain. I have totally put off decorating it. I mean the only room I have done anything to is my son's room, and it is not completely done. I am definitely one who thinks it has to perfect or else I won't do it. I so need to get over myself!!!! Thanks for your inspirational post! I am already making plans! :)
HAH! You said, "tchotchkes" and that's a word I use all the time. People ask me to repeat myself constantly! Must be a regional thing. I think I got it from my grandmother who's from back east???
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