High five for organizing and clutter-busting! It’s my perpetual project 
Carrie, it’s so funny you mentioned the Hoarders show since I just saw it for the first time a couple of months ago. My husband and I both tend to hang on to things, but of course my treasure is his junk and vice versa. What I found amazing/scary was that the folks were living in clutter situations thousands of times worse than my own, and yet they said the SAME kind of things I say when I’m trying to go through the piles: “Oh, that’s still good,” or “the ever-popular “that might come in handy some day.”
Definitely a cautionary tale, that show! And while I haven’t made what could be called major purges as a result, my grip on the everyday items has loosened; I’m throwing away more things, and taking time to congratulate myself when I do! For instance, this morning I tossed a shoebox’s worth of old lotions and potions; there was a bottle of cold cream so old the BOTTLE had yellowed; Lord knows how the cream inside must have looked (luckily the bottle was opaque, so we’ll never know).
Off to peek at KrazyKat’s blog now….
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