So, having recently completed my undergraduate degree (yay!) I have moved back home along with an enormous amount of stuff.  That's all it is stuff!  And I have so much of it: clothes, papers, books, kitchen supplies, decorations.  The list goes on and on.  Some of it is old stuff that I could not tell you the last time I used it and some is recently acquired stuff.  Most of it I need, want or cannot part with, but some of it just has to go!  Which is okay with me.  I do like to hold on to things, it's one of the things I do best.  However, there comes a time when things just have to go.  I need to start this next step of my life with only what I "need" (or want or can't part with).  Therefore I spent the last two days going through all of my stuff.  I was in heaven!  I love organizing things and making sure everything has a special place.  I also love looking at stuff that I haven't seen in awhile and thinking about the different memories those items bring about. That's probably why I cannot part with a lot of it because I reminisce while I organize.  I also love the feeling of having room to grow, room to have new stuff, room to start anew.  I think it is a really good to have fresh starts.  It is hard and it can be scary.  I am the first person to want to go back to the way things were, to the time when I was comfortable with everything in my life, when I new exactly where I was headed and what I was going to do.  But let's face it, that's not how life works.  It keeps moving, always changing and starting anew.  So I think, heck, if life is always changing and giving me new beginnings, why not make room for some more stuff so that I can have as much space available for whatever life throws at me.

Go organize something, you'll feel great when you're done! :)