Clutter Busting Shows

Clutter Busting Shows

I enjoy watching this kind of shows so I’d thought I’d talk about a few of them:

1. Mission Organization (HGTV)

Take a really cluttered room, add an organizer to motivate and cheer the family, sort, sort, sort, and then remake the room.  There’s a lot packed into this half hour show

1. Clean Sweep (TLC)

Take two really cluttered rooms add a designer, an organizer, and a team of workers to redo the two rooms in two days.  Seeing all of the stuff out of the two rooms spread out on the lawn is often very sobering.  The family and the organizer sort the items while the decorator and the team starts re-doing the room.  That’s day one.  Day two is the flea market – the person with the most sales gets to keep one of their items.  There’s drama as the sorting goes on and more drama as the team races to get the rooms redone.

1. Clean House (Style)

Take a cluttered house – add a diva, a decorator, an organizer, and a flea market guru – delve into the reason for the clutter – get the family to give up stuff for the yard sale.  In this show, the proceeds from the yard sale pay for the redo although often favors are pulled in to sweeten the deal.  Emotions run high in this show and there is good bit of humor as well.

1. Life’s Laundry (BBC America)

This show isn’t on the air right now.  Set in England, it does what many of the other shows – take clutter – move it out to sort – decide what to sell and what to keep.  The yard sale is a boot sale over their and the best part of the show is the crusher – one or more emotional but little value items are thrown in to be crushed.

Since I can’t afford to get a team to move the clutter of the house, I’ll do it slow but steady – selling it on eBay!

Take care & enjoy,
Florence

Its Beginning to Feel Like Fall!

It’s Beginning to Feel Like Fall!

The remnants of Ernesto came through Wednesday night and dumped a good bit of rain.  The rain tapered off by late afternoon and the weather cleared.  Last weekend was the first really clear days that we’ve had for a while and the weather is really nice this weekend too.

I’ll have to labor on Labor Day for the first time in quite a while.  The first was the start of the new fiscal year so things have been a bit crazy at work.

Yes, work. <grin>  I had a one-week job during early July and then nothing.  I started working on my eBay store and got my store inventory up to 400 items. About half of the items are books….

One of the many emails I get is a daily job listing from Monster.com.  On the 23rd I saw one that interested me and I applied on-line.  Less than 30 minutes later, I got a call from the temp agency (a new one for me!) and later that day I found out I would be starting the job that Friday.  That was quick!

I was in the middle of finishing posting all the books I had so I hurried to get that done – still have a handful to post.  

I am currently reading the Minor Prophets in the Catholic Bible.   That means it won’t be long before I’ll be starting a new version since I start reading with the New Testament.  I’ve always known that the Catholic Bible has books in it that the protestant Bibles don’t.  Mom was raised in a Catholic home and had one.  My husband was interested in seeing one so I found an old 1953 version on eBay.  The most interesting thing about the extra books are that they are all in the Old Testament --no gospels of Thomas or Judas here!

So it’s been a little crazy around here lately – which is why I haven’t been posting too much.  Of course football season is starting up while racing winds down – good thing I got a 250MB hard drive in my RePlayTV!

Take care & enjoy,
Florence