A More Simple Me

Blogging at 1:30 a.m. was not part of my get-some-sleep-before-work-tomorrow plan, until my cat brought a mouse through the pet door and dropped it in the living room.  Little dachshund, Rambo, was sleeping soundly until his rodent-hunting instincts kicked in.  The rest is history.  He spent the next two hours tearing the house apart determined to find the escapee…and he did.  Unfortunately, I am now wide awake thinking of my next simplification task.

The jewelry armoire should have never been invented.  At the very least, I should not be allowed to own one because it has given me license to accumulate everything shiny.  Accumulate, but rarely wear.  It even contains shiny things that are not wearable , like Arubian florins and paperclips.  Some content is non-shiny, like tubes of lip balm and anything else that falls out of my pocket as I pass by.

In my last post, I noted the difficulty I have finding time to work, study and still do a bit of organizing during a work week.  I thought it would be wise to keep my organization/simplification momentum going nonetheless.  The jewelry armoire will become this week’s project and oh what a project it will be!  I can hardly describe its current condition.

When I received my armoire, my intention was to fill it with the jewels spilling from at least 4 locations throughout my bedroom, dressing room and bathroom.  I got part of the way there and the result was fairly organized…bracelets in the big compartments, rings in the ring slots, necklaces hanging from the hooks, etc.  Then I got to the hard decision pieces.  Mom gave me this when I was three, an old friend gave me that in high school.  I guess I never came to a landing on what to do with certain pieces because the 4 jewelry storage places scattered throughout 3 different rooms still exist, just with fewer pieces in them.  As for my neatly organized jewelry armoire, the disarray commenced one lazy day arriving home from work when I dropped a necklace on the ring slots and tossed a bracelet on a necklace hook.  It has never  been the same.

Now my new commitment to simplify life takes me back to a task never completed.  Drawer by drawer, shelf by shelf, compartment by compartment, it’s time to purge the many, many pieces of jewelry that I haven’t touched in years  Stay tuned for photos and updates.