[JFC]: Diane

[Mindy]

Diane -    OK - having done the dishes for the last 4 days and started on supper - I thought I would take a couple more minutes to catch up on email. I have been meaning to write you and started to copy down some of the things you have written in lately to reply to them. However I realized that it would be way too long, so just let me tell you that you never fail to inspire me! Just the way you turn a phrase or the way your mind works - I have a bunch of stuff copied of yours that I go back to and reread when I need motivation or am getting things too complicated.    I think I am going to try your shoebox idea - I even know where I will put them but need to get rid of cleaning supplies that are sitting on those shelves right now. I have so much it is ridiculous - mostly because I get so much in the summer when I am cleaning homes at the Lakes. Maybe I need to spring clean my own house and get them used up!! LOL     As far as other decluttering - so far I have gotten rid of 4 garbage bags of stuff this year and mean to keep going. Like you it is something I just kind of do all the time now, with times that I get geared up and make huge strides - and other times just noticing that I never use something and it goes in the "thing" in the front closet. (I think the "thing" originally was for files - at any rate it is a big black metal box on wheels whose lid either lifts or slides back. When it gets full it gets emptied for a trip to Good will - in the meantime I just pitch things in it as I run across them.    Well, time to do the next stage of supper so I need to go. By the way - on HGTV there was a special on New Orleans last night and I thought of you when I watched it - New Orleans has always fascinatied me! Later, LWL, Mindy