Dear Maria,

I have been enjoying your newsletter for a few years now. I want to share with you how things have changed in my home in the past year or so. We purchased an old house 15+ years ago. My husband has been redoing it, bit by bit, so we had accumulated stuff to help in this work. Our garage had become so stuffed full of things that we could not walk from the door leading into the house to the doors that open to the outside. This made the garage an unusable space for doing anything.

Well, after my husband and I have suffered some serious health issues, it has become easier to let go of things. My husband cleaned out the garage this year hauling off, giving to others, and preparing some things to sell at a yard sale. He also built us two work benches...one for my projects and one for his. I thought this was a great thing to get accomplished, but he decided to clean out a small shed that still had a lot of stuff from the previous owners in it as well as the basement and coal room of the house.

He inspired me, the one that usually wants stuff cleaned out and organized, to go through the attic space where I keep off-season decor and other items that need to be kept dry. I organized a lot of the stuff in the attic into plastic bins and labeled them and thinned out my decorations, since I really no longer feel like putting so much time and effort into getting everything out and then putting it all away a short time later.

So I want to encourage anyone with a spouse that does not do things in the way that you want them done, or in the time that you want it done, to be patient and supportive when that spouse does make any effort to clean and organize. My husband went about things totally different than I would have with the garage, it was hard not to nag him about how he did things, but the end result was even better than I had hoped. He wants to get rid of the rest of the stuff even more than I do now. He is looking forward to having even more available space to organize the remaining things into.

Thanks, Maria, for all your helpful tips and ideas for having a more organized life, so that we can enjoy time for other things.

This fabulous GON Reader Tip was submitted by:

Ronda K., Livingston TN

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