LITTLEOLDME

I tell them it's their inheritance to remind them of the days and hours I spent cleaning up after them as they grew up..

farmquilter

That was my thoughts about leaving my 'stuff' behind. I have gotten a lot of bigger things out of the house but my sewing/quilting rooms need to free up more space. Trying to sort things to keep and fill boxes to 'move out'.

Bneighbor

I spent the last 3 weeks emptying out my room...completely. I have a painter here this morning, painting ceiling, walls and trim. I am drawing out a new layout to make the room more efficient. I am tired of hunting for something and not getting anything accomplished. After everything was removed, the contents filled 2 bedrooms!!! I decided that at least 1/4 had to go out of the house, and 1/4 should be sorted and reused, repurposed or removed. With almost half gone, I should be able to put a new layout together that gives me work zones...cutting, sewing, embroidery (plus a hooping area), storage, and a pressing area. My room is about the size of a 2-car garage. Hopefully the painter will be done by Thursday for Friday. I cannot wait to get started on my new "Creative Embellishment Studio". Sounds fancy!

Geri B

Well, to me that sounds like she does not want anything of yours.......so to be "fair" if it were me, I would give it those who would want it now! I have the same situation here...so I am giving to " others" ........

kay carlson

Yesterday, I finished the cleaning, re-arranging, purging, tear my hair out phases of redesigning my workspace. It feels so good to have several items recycled to new homes. For once, I actually discovered that there were fewer works-in-progress than I had imagined! I think that was the greatest satisfaction experienced.

To celebrate this moment in my personal history I chose one WIP to do some sewing where I would see the most progress in the least amount of time. This was my reward as I had become discouraged while in the midst of the clean up.

Sew piecefully!

Caswews

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Amazing .. me too .. with my dog and my foster cat .. WOW !! lol

Onebyone

She has many of the quilts I've made. She is into scrapbooking and knitting. Her craft room could be a magazine picture on any day. It's so pretty. She uses all the quilts I give her but isn't interested in making one. She has knitted me beautiful sweaters as I'm not interested in knitting but love the sweaters. I know better about leaving an unorganized home. I had to clean and sort two of my older relatives homes and before I was done I was ready to just call someone and say take everything, just get it out. I was getting angry of the mess they left for me to deal with even though I loved them very much.

Jannie

I am in the middle of discarding and organizing also. We just had our hardwood floors refinished so everything had to be emptied out. Now to put everything back and decide what really doesn't need to go back in. It is surprising to see what has been stored -- for who knows how long. Hubby is doing the happy dance every time I say this box is going to charity or dump. A lot more would be going if I would let him have his way. Sure will be glad when it is all put back together.

coopah

This made me laugh! Sounds like a good plan!

sharin'Sharon

My daughters said the same thing to me, so I spent THREE weeks (off & on) to, again, sift through my 8x8 sewing room that is floor to ceiling in bookshelves, drawer totes and an overly filled 4x4 pegboard (no fabric in here). I also sorted, and put into separate 3-ring binders, my purchased quilt patterns, magazine cutouts & computer print outs, embroidery designs, How-to's, paper piecing, doll patterns and etc. Whew. Also made up an MSExcel spreadsheet as I did it so that I don't waste an entire evening looking for something (it has almost 1100 items & a separate listing of books on this list). I even started to put Replacement Cost figures on the items and that was pretty scary in itself. The numerous listing of UFO's was also alarming. Need to get rid of things in the rest of the house, but have some pillows and quilts to finish and we know which will wait till later ---and gardening season is coming to interrupt the 'later'!!!