hey everyone! it's a well know fact that the indulgent holiday season can add a pound or two...{or three!} to our figures. no exception here mind you - but the pounds i am determined to lose are of a different nature.
so the office project i posted about recently continues. enter in my custom cubbies to hold an asst. of my beloved old locker baskets {below}
i did this knowing darn well that my fondness for magazines and holding onto them has been something i have done since the beginning of time. well, more like the beginning of my design & decorating infatuation. i have subscribed to many o' magazines thru the years. and those that i hold {literally} nearest & dearest have continued to add up. so with this bit of knowledge i created cubbies to hold the "overflow".
til i had a lil talk with myself yesterday. went something like this.
me to self. "beth. when are you going to really sit down & pour over each and every one of these magazines? yes, there may be a good idea or 2 plus an enticing recipe in their pages. but really? when? you have magazines from 1999 in your collection. that's before the millennium! and by collection i mean stacks hiding under the couch + sidechair in addition to cupboards full. time to purge girlfriend!"
there ya have it. just admitted that i not only carry on full fledged conversations {+ arguments!} w/ myself but that i had happy dust bunnies nesting in, around & between the pages of hiding stacks. so out came the grocery bags. will that be paper or plastic, ma'am? paper. doubled up too please. this is gonna get heavy. {there i go...talking to myself again}...
so after scouring every nook & cranny i could think of...i came up with six sizeable stacks of sacs {seen below} waiting to go to the recycler. oh, and an unshown boxful in addition...but who's counting?
note the smith and hawken catalog {above}. they have been out of business for 3 years! and the sundance catalogs....well...those may have jumped shipped back to the safety of my magazine files. the files contains the likes of some i am still mourning the end of {below right}...cottage living...home companion...country home. but with loss comes healing & i take mine in the form of some other publications {below left}...country living british edition....mary jane's farm and life beautiful.
i learned an interesting fact about our recycling center yesterday when i called to confirm if they took magazines. {big step here...never given up so many before.} not only did they say they did but that they PAY for them. gee. all this time and i could have been reimbursed for losing some "weight". the price for a pound, you ask? $.02. how much did i profit? well outside the feeling of finally "letting go" i got me roughly a whopping $8.00! you do the math!
now by letting go i mean that of those i didn't feel i would benefit any longer from. but. you be the judge. because my cabinet still looks like this {below} @ current post time! that's another self sit-down conversation. baby steps...
now. back to the other little war that's raging in my upstairs office. that'd be the grueling task of sorting years worth of paperwork + catalogs. i wonder if they pay for that "dead weight" as well?! if only it were so easy to lose those few extra, cheesecake induced, pounds. and i'm willing to do that for free!
thanks for stopping by and sharing my "self-help session" today! the office is coming along nicely and i can't wait to share more with you. until then i'm in good company with me, myself and i!
happy day to you!
