Bother. I can't put it off any longer, can I?

[cupcake_goth]

All last year, I said "I'll tackle cleaning out and organizing the storage heap room after I'm done with the book!" When I needed to find a certain item of club clothing or supplies for sewing projects, unearthing them from the storage heap room was an exciting adventure. Would I find the black lace trim or velvet & faux-fur frock coat that I knew was up there somewhere? Maybe! (Well, usually. After 15 minutes or more of rummaging and heaving piles of ruffly skirts aside.)

But.

I'm done with the writing and editing part of the book, aren't I? Which means I really DO have to start The Great Clear-Out. Yes, it will be interesting and exciting, finding things I forgot I had. It will also be tedious, and really hard work. I am a pack-rat, to put it mildly. But it Must Be Done.

(This post brought to you by my rummaging through the storage heap room in an attempt to find a bag of fabric I KNEW I had. I eventually found it, but it took over half an hour.)

Comments

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

You have my full & complete attention.

[torreybird.livejournal.com]

domestinatrix mentioned that there might be some old wooden chairs that live in your basement that might be feeling like a trip to Oregon should a Farm materialize there in the middle-end of February?

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I am sure those chairs would love to take a trip to a Farm!

[torreybird.livejournal.com]

yay! hopefully we'll hear more soon from the People In Charge of such farmy things :-)

[domestinatrix.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you could use a hand, I love sorting stuff.

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

if you need a new home for petticoats, my supply is meager. ;)

and, of course, there is also the baby bat. :)

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

also, I have a need of being productive... and am no longer in need of being chained to the apartment...

While I am dreadful at dealing with my own crap, I am fairly good at other people's.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I am almost certain I don't have any spare petticoats, more's the pity. :)

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

Hee. I figured you didn't, but it is fun to ask. Really, I don't have much room for the petticoats I do have, alas.

The offer to come help, does stand though. I suspect, honestly, that labels and bins or boxes would go a long way for you. If you are feeling particularly industrious, you could do digital photos of the items in the box to put on the label.

[mahariel.livejournal.com]

I am feeling the same way about boxes and piles of "clothing I should sell" in the guest bedroom, but I have never really had the book thing as an excuse for why I haven't dealt with it for the past year.

I have to do something, though, because we will be having a houseguest for Norwescon.

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

Mine is mostly organized, and I have never had the excuse of a book, yet somehow I too keep managing to NOT deal with it.

[schwarze-krahe.livejournal.com]

I have this problem, it is called the need [ or addiction]to organize stuff.. if you need help let me know. I live for stuff like this.

Piles of stuff

[purple-mark.livejournal.com]

I"m in the same boat here. In my quests to find things I have stumbled sometimes literally on a
long lost item that I haven't seen in years. Of course other things also disappear, such as my
rolling pin and my phone/address book, why does FanTomas need these things?