Archive for October 2008
Progress Report: No Progress
Posted by: onebagnation on: October 30, 2008
I had really hoped to take several loads of stuff to the consignment store or to be donated this week, but it didn’t happen; life got in the way.
Vintage Girl has been home sick for three days, and when she’s sick she gives new meaning to the phrase “high-maintenance”. I’ve had to spend any spare [...]
You’ll Just Have to Take My Word for It!
Posted by: onebagnation on: October 28, 2008
I forgot to take photographs of all the stuff we hauled out of the basement last week. For those of you who have a little time to kill, here’s the list – or what I can remember anyway – this is what I call decluttering!!
We started with a giant bag of clothing that Community Services [...]
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!
Posted by: onebagnation on: October 22, 2008
This song was going around and around in my head as I collected stuff to take to the consignment store today. Among the treasures: two teething rings, which is how the tune started playing! (Is it in your head now?)
Today Community Services for the Blind picked up an enormous bag of clothes; tonight I washed [...]
One Bag Nation on Hiatus
Posted by: onebagnation on: October 15, 2008
My husband and I have decided to tackle the basement clean-out once and for all. I’ll have a little time off from work at the end of October, and I’ve committed to delivering the things we want to donate to the appropriate places, putting a few things on Craig’s List and gathering up all the [...]
Blog Action Day: Reflecting on Affluence & Clutter
Posted by: onebagnation on: October 14, 2008
Today is Blog Action Day 2008, and many thousands of bloggers all around the world will be writing about this year’s topic: poverty. I guess I’ve sort of turned the topic around here at One Bag Nation, as my post title suggests.
An enormous number of bloggers and websites are devoted to decluttering, simplifying and downsizing. [...]
Procrastinating on Things we WANT to Do??
Posted by: onebagnation on: October 14, 2008
I’ve had this habit for a long time. I realized, back in my “career” days, that I would put off projects and tasks that I enjoyed doing, thinking I should do the most unpleasant things on my list first – eat the frog and all that.
What invariably happens is that the project I was looking [...]
Does This Sound Compulsive?
Posted by: onebagnation on: October 8, 2008
photo by macinate
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been planning my day hour-by-hour, and writing my plan down on my daily planning tool. I’ve already posted that this was an idea I got from Simple Mom’s Daily Docket, but I had no idea how well it would work for me.
I’m sure some of you [...]
A Day Without Procrastination Is Like A Day Without . . .
Posted by: onebagnation on: October 6, 2008
Stress or Anxiety!
Funny how “just doing it” – whatever “it” is – makes for a much better day. Today I got up early and powered through a bunch of to-do’s before my girl was even up. Once I got her to school, I gave myself 30 minutes of online time, and then [...]
Out Of The Mouths of Babes
Posted by: onebagnation on: October 1, 2008
DD, in the midst of getting ready for school: “Mom, are you mad at me”?
Me: “No, why do you think I’m mad at you”?
DD: “Because you’re rushing all around!”
’nuff said.
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