The decluttered items I took care of by way of 27 Fling Boogies are gone.  Exhale………….  I feel like I can breath again.  I still have items to declutter and I will get there.

The crucial point I want to make is to practice the habit if something new comes in, something old MUST go out.

Old Decayed Wood From Outside Shed That Took Up Space and Now A Nice Glowing Fire.

Marla Watson Cilley of The Flylady asked not long ago what our passions were.  She said in order to do this we  must get rid of the clutter standing in our way.  As I said in my last blog I went to my most cluttered room to begin decluttering and froze.  Too many things in there had emotional attachment to it.  I didn’t quit. Instead I just went to another area, my outside shed where I had no relationship with the items I decluttered.  My 100+ Decluttered Items Big and Small are gone.  They left around 10am with the Garbage Truck.  I am double checking now to make sure they took everything because it was more than my usual bi weekly garbage pick up.  Yes!  It is all gone!

Am I elated about this?  Yes and No.  Yes, that it is gone.  No, that it took so long to declutter the items I had no attachment too because of all the obsessing about the stuff that does have meaning whether good, bad or indifferent.   I also know that this has something to do with the two buildings that were demolished this last week and this week.  The world has not crumbled because they are gone.  People looked and watched some the first couple days as we all have that curious nature.  They are still finishing up with filling in sisterns with dirt that held water when it had to be hauled in.  Still, life is going on.

Now back to what Marla Watson Cilley said about our passions.  Mine is writing.  Writing has got me through good and bad and indifferent times.  I have been writing in a journal since I was 14 years old.  I have had a few years here and there where I didn’t write.  The thing is that it has probably been the most consistent thing I have done since 1986.  That is twenty five years!  I have been building on my passion and not even realized it.  Why? Because I have kept all my clutter so I could be surrounded with an invisible fort to protect myself.  It is called “Fort Marilyn”

“Fort Marilyn” has been built with cluttered items of “just in case”, “keep for safe keeping”, “must have paint clothes”, “might be able to use someday”,  “multiple items of the same thing because I could never find them and would just buy again”, “clothes and items given to me because I couldn’t say no”, extra parts to cabinets I no longer have, wood leftover from projects and think could use some day.  “Fort Marilyn” is not a place of restfullness and peace.  Instead a place of “Fight or Flight”.  I am becoming aware of this as I am writing this.  Maybe because I tore some of my fort down.  Sunlight is coming into the fort again like it was before I started to build it.  I am tearing it down because I want all of my home to be peaceful to walk into.  No more “Fight or Flight” rooms that are just waiting to boil over like a kettle on a stove.  I want to make room for things that bring pleasure.

Decluttered 100+ With No Attachments  Just Clutter!

Lily and I have been enjoying our Walkabouts out in the countryside.  We are liking the freedom of our energy coming and going with the wind.  It has been so freeing.  It also brings pleasure.  All I have to do is watch Lily to see how she struts about using her hounding and herding nature.  She is 1/2 Miniature Dachsund and 1/2 Sheltie.  She gets to be her true self.  It has been such a joy to watch her that I want some of that.  How do I do it? By continuing to FLY and part of flying is Decluttering.  The more I declutter the more I will write.  Simple as that.

All Gone!  Exhale!

I hope you enjoy what I have been writing.  This is my passion.  I have had no classes.  I just write from the heart.  My last blog I wrote about thinking I may have “Bloggers Block or Writers Block”.  It hasn’t been that at all.  It has simply been “Clutters Block”.  I got a good chunk of it torn down and taken away from “Fort Marilyn” to write again and it feels good.  You know?  Decluttering 15 minutes a day may not be so bad after all.  My flavor is 27 Fling Boogie.  I guess I like counting things go out the door.  Either way, I am making room for my writing where ever it may carry me.  As long as I keep Clutter at Bay, I will find my way to my passion.  Today and for 25 years has been writing!  What a great awareness I have made!  And it happened on Garbage Day September 1st to take August and prior items away.  Relief!

Nice and Orderly!  Ahhh!