And now, back to me
This first back-to-school week for my kids has gone well. Thank you for your thoughtful comments and emails on my previous post. Back-to-school week has also been my first “back-to-me” week. I had low expectations for filling my time the rest of this month because things will step up gradually beginning in September. I have big plans but wanted to bookend those plans with some silence and stillness first. And the photo? Last week was supposed to be my haircut, but it was postponed. Big changes should require a hairstyle change too, don’t you think?
I’ve continued to read a LOT, though that has leveled off as well. Meanwhile, my Kindle has been hijacked by either my husband or my oldest son and since they’ve been reading more, and I’m finding turning to my stack of “actual” books — including library books.
If you’ve been keeping up with me at Goodreads, you might notice that I’m reading a couple of books that have been on my “To Read” list for ages: A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table and The Soup Peddler’s Slow and Difficult Soups: Recipes and Reveries. I’m also looking forward to reading The Wordy Shipmates. (I’m back to reading some nonfiction in between the novels). Finally, I’m hopeful that I’ll get a lot out of this book too: SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life: A Four-Step Guide to Getting Unstuck. I’ve hit a wall with this summer’s de-cluttering and organizing and I hope that this book will address one of the next steps I need to take – dealing with issues of old magazines! I have Blueprint, Domino and a handful of Mary Engelbreit magazines that are taking up an entire shelf of one of my bookcases. I want to reclaim the space, but for some reason, can’t bring myself to just recycle those magazines. Of course, if anybody wants them and is willing to pay the shipping, I’ll send them to you. That’ll be the ideal solution.
Have you thought about eBaying those mags? I sometimes eBay things not because of the money they’ll bring, but because I know somebody out there may just be looking for the thing I’m on the verge of throwing out. Today I agonized about whether or not to toss the lid to a 1988 crockpot that *I* was grateful to locate after mine broke. I checked eBay and saw several for sale…so I guess it’s not critical to get mine ‘out there.’ To the dumpster it went!
Enjoy your back to me time!
happy Back-To-Janet week
There must be something going around what with the decluttering this autumn. I finally closed my eyes and let my husband recycle all my old magazines that I had been hoarding on 3 shelves in the linen closet. We’re still trying to figure out where next to go with all the re-organizing and decluttering (because the house really really needs it!)
Us girls and “hoarding” our magazines!! I recycle them! As I read the mag. and see something, I tear it right then, otherwise I will forget and forget which mag. I saw something in that I wanted to do or try. That drives me CRAZY!! Take to hospitals, nursing homes, schools, etc.
I had a ridiculous number of old Martha Stewart magazines for the longest time. Finally, I decided to just save a couple of favorites and quickly dropped them off at the little store at the library before I could change my mind. The internet is what allowed me to do that because I know that with one click I can find a wealth of fabulous ideas for just about anything
Last week I went through a rather tall stack of magazines. I was tossing out Knitting magazines from 4 years ago. Felt all proud of myself and then saw there was an even larger stack left to go through.
Am now taking stock of what magazine I really enjoy for I’ve been getting so many that I can’t possibly read all of them. Slowly stopping a lot of them by just not renewing.