Comments on: Shutting it for good… http://rowdykittens.com/2009/10/shutting-it-for-good/ RowdyKittens Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Simple Things Volume Ten. | Simple. Organized. Life. http://rowdykittens.com/2009/10/shutting-it-for-good/#comment-15407 The Simple Things Volume Ten. | Simple. Organized. Life. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:32:06 +0000 http://rowdykittens.com/?p=10544#comment-15407 [...] Kittens shuts their junk drawer…forever. I think I may need to do this as well in my new [...] [...] Kittens shuts their junk drawer…forever. I think I may need to do this as well in my new [...]

]]> By: Tammy http://rowdykittens.com/2009/10/shutting-it-for-good/#comment-15389 Tammy Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:43:01 +0000 http://rowdykittens.com/?p=10544#comment-15389 @Dottie - Good idea! Just don't let the box become your new junk drawer. :) Hugs to you! @Dottie – Good idea! Just don’t let the box become your new junk drawer. :) Hugs to you!

]]> By: Dottie http://rowdykittens.com/2009/10/shutting-it-for-good/#comment-15384 Dottie Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:12:38 +0000 http://rowdykittens.com/?p=10544#comment-15384 I really need to tape my junk drawer shut! That's great advice I've never heard before. Most of what I throw in the drawer is actually stuff that's important to me, like theatre ticket stubs that I want to save and birthday cards from family. I'm going to get a special box for this stuff and keep it out of the drawer. I really need to tape my junk drawer shut! That’s great advice I’ve never heard before. Most of what I throw in the drawer is actually stuff that’s important to me, like theatre ticket stubs that I want to save and birthday cards from family. I’m going to get a special box for this stuff and keep it out of the drawer.

]]> By: Lisa http://rowdykittens.com/2009/10/shutting-it-for-good/#comment-15357 Lisa Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:39:36 +0000 http://rowdykittens.com/?p=10544#comment-15357 @Wendy- My sympathies! I live with one just like yours. At least you're keeping a sense of humor about it. @Tammy- Logic doesn't work with my husband. His clutter isn't a logical thing but stems from (I think) emotional attachment to THINGS. I'm the one with OCD but mine manifests in the obsessive need for order. What a pair we make! For the most part I win out but only because I'm more persistent. @Wendy- My sympathies! I live with one just like yours. At least you’re keeping a sense of humor about it.

@Tammy- Logic doesn’t work with my husband. His clutter isn’t a logical thing but stems from (I think) emotional attachment to THINGS. I’m the one with OCD but mine manifests in the obsessive need for order. What a pair we make! For the most part I win out but only because I’m more persistent.

]]> By: Tammy http://rowdykittens.com/2009/10/shutting-it-for-good/#comment-15335 Tammy Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:10:00 +0000 http://rowdykittens.com/?p=10544#comment-15335 We forgot to include that stuff in our count. I didn't keep any of my stuff hiding in the junk drawer. So nothing was added to my 100 things list. :) Hugs to you.. We forgot to include that stuff in our count. I didn’t keep any of my stuff hiding in the junk drawer. So nothing was added to my 100 things list. :) Hugs to you..

]]> By: Simpler Living http://rowdykittens.com/2009/10/shutting-it-for-good/#comment-15333 Simpler Living Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:24:57 +0000 http://rowdykittens.com/?p=10544#comment-15333 Tammy, did any of the stuff in the drawer count as part of your 100 things? Logan, your comment made me laugh. Happy Halloween to both of you! Tammy, did any of the stuff in the drawer count as part of your 100 things?

Logan, your comment made me laugh.

Happy Halloween to both of you!

]]> By: Tammy http://rowdykittens.com/2009/10/shutting-it-for-good/#comment-15331 Tammy Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:30:45 +0000 http://rowdykittens.com/?p=10544#comment-15331 @Wendy - Thanks for sharing your story. It must be hard to live with a packrat! I can't imagine having so much extra stuff in the house. Have you talked to him about donating some of his extra stuff? Is that an option? Hugs to you... @Wendy – Thanks for sharing your story. It must be hard to live with a packrat! I can’t imagine having so much extra stuff in the house.

Have you talked to him about donating some of his extra stuff? Is that an option?

Hugs to you…

]]> By: Wendy http://rowdykittens.com/2009/10/shutting-it-for-good/#comment-15329 Wendy Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:38:52 +0000 http://rowdykittens.com/?p=10544#comment-15329 I think we have the same countertops. I'm sitting here in a house that went completely out of control somehow in only about 4 days. I have no tips for anyone but myself: "get off your butt, close the laptop, and get busy, girl." I live with an unrepentant and hopeless packrat. He takes over every cabinet, drawer, bookshelf, inch of countertop, and every dresser top with a never-ending supply of weird things that have no home. He has half the garage & a study to store this nonsense, but instead he leaves it EVERYWHERE. If I don't stay mercilessly vigilant, the whole house looks like a junk drawer. If he lived alone, he would eventually be one of those people they have to find by the smell six weeks after he died, while wading through a maze of 12-foot-high narrow corridors made entirely of unread magazines. I think we have the same countertops.

I’m sitting here in a house that went completely out of control somehow in only about 4 days. I have no tips for anyone but myself: “get off your butt, close the laptop, and get busy, girl.”

I live with an unrepentant and hopeless packrat. He takes over every cabinet, drawer, bookshelf, inch of countertop, and every dresser top with a never-ending supply of weird things that have no home. He has half the garage & a study to store this nonsense, but instead he leaves it EVERYWHERE. If I don’t stay mercilessly vigilant, the whole house looks like a junk drawer. If he lived alone, he would eventually be one of those people they have to find by the smell six weeks after he died, while wading through a maze of 12-foot-high narrow corridors made entirely of unread magazines.

]]> By: Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell http://rowdykittens.com/2009/10/shutting-it-for-good/#comment-15325 Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:34:12 +0000 http://rowdykittens.com/?p=10544#comment-15325 Oh, the draded junk drawer. For months I've been meaning to get to mine. I need the space for towels and stuff we need. The stuff from the junk drawer in Kansas City is still in a box, which proves we never really needed any of it in the first place. Oh, the draded junk drawer. For months I’ve been meaning to get to mine. I need the space for towels and stuff we need. The stuff from the junk drawer in Kansas City is still in a box, which proves we never really needed any of it in the first place.

]]> By: Ellen http://rowdykittens.com/2009/10/shutting-it-for-good/#comment-15312 Ellen Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:51:53 +0000 http://rowdykittens.com/?p=10544#comment-15312 ooh, o.k. tomorrow I promise to report on progress getting rid of my 2 junk drawers. You did it. It's a great suggestion. Why do I have these drawers anyway? aahhhgggg! ooh, o.k. tomorrow I promise to report on progress getting rid of my 2 junk drawers. You did it. It’s a great suggestion. Why do I have these drawers anyway? aahhhgggg!

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