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		<title>Cleaning Out Closets&#8230; and My Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicole]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Over the weekend I FINISHED cleaning out the last of the closets in our home that needed de-cluttering.  I organized shelves for playdough and painting.  I organized photo albums&#8230; and even found room to devote a couple of shelves to paper towels and napkins&#8230; I feel GREAT!  I know where everything in the house [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://bananablueberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cleaning-closets.gif"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-585" title="cleaning-closets" src="http://bananablueberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cleaning-closets.gif" alt="" width="174" height="165" /></a>   Over the weekend I FINISHED cleaning out the last of the closets in our home that needed de-cluttering.  I organized shelves for playdough and painting.  I organized photo albums&#8230; and even found room to devote a couple of shelves to paper towels and napkins&#8230;</p>
<p>I feel GREAT!  I know where everything in the house is, and I&#8217;ve cleared out anything and everything that we don&#8217;t need.  I, once again, went through my wardrobe and found things to give to charity&#8230;  </p>
<p>Clothes and household-odds-and-ends are in the back of the car right now to be dropped off to charity later today.</p>
<p>And I&#8217;ve been thinking&#8230; I am not a clothes-horse and yet, I find myself every few months with plenty of clothes to give to charity.  After cleaning our attic earlier this year, I found most of it was just&#8230; stuff.  And now it&#8217;s gone.  I have a couple of containers full of keepsakes from my husband and my childhoods, and special keepsakes for our son&#8230;  and like I was saying, I&#8217;ve been thinking&#8230;</p>
<p>Why do people keep so_ much_ stuff_ &#8230;</p>
<p>I think &#8216;stuff&#8217; comforts people; but just having &#8216;stuff&#8217; is an illogical comfort&#8230;</p>
<p>Just for myself, it&#8217;s free-ing to declutter and choose a few special things that signify special memories, </p>
<p>the more I do this, the more I feel free to create new memories, and concentrate on today,</p>
<p>It&#8217;s Monday, May 18th, 2009- it&#8217;s never been today before&#8230;</p>
<p><em>Create a Memory~</em></p>
<p><em>and it doesn&#8217;t have to be CRAZY-complicated, come on, I&#8217;m not Joan of Arc, or Martha Stewart, or a </em></p>
<p><em>Mom-MacGyver, &#8216;Let&#8217;s get some string, pine cones, silly puddy, straw, a couple of socks&#8230;&#8217;</em></p>
<p><em>Just have fun~</em></p>
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		<title>BACK TO SCHOOL AND BACK TO BUSINESS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicole]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re back; back to school, back to business, back to basics. I&#8217;m psyched, it&#8217;s the start of another season and another excuse to de-clutter and reorganize. My son likes his teacher, We love the school and he has a lot of old and new friends in his class. Life is good; Of course, this was [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://bananablueberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/pencils.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-248" title="pencils" src="http://bananablueberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/pencils.jpg" alt="" width="121" height="181" /></a> We&#8217;re back;</p>
<p>back to school, back to business, back to basics.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m psyched, it&#8217;s the start of another season and another excuse to de-clutter and reorganize.</p>
<p>My son likes his teacher, We love the school and he has a lot of old and new friends in his class.</p>
<p>Life is good;</p>
<p>Of course, this was the first day of his last year of preschool&#8230;  And he only went today from</p>
<p>10:00 &#8211; 10:55am.</p>
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