Day 5: Organized Chaos

I am a packrat. I will freely admit it. I collect articles and books on how to organize your home and your life, yet waiting for someone to leap out of the pages to organize me doesn't seem to be working out very well. I've also heard that being disorganized can be a sign that you've got some spiritual disorganization going on as well, and that *really* concerns me. Today was the day I chose to start purging in my kitchen, and this is the collection of items that came from what I call the "cookware" cabinet. About 1/3 of these items went into the giveaway box (like the lid to a cake pan I don't even have anymore) and the rest of them went back into the cabinet neatly organized. This job wasn't nearly as bad as the pantry purge I did next, but pictures of that would have scared small children, extremely neat people and Martha Stewart. I also dove into the cabinet above the stove and found a sort of roach motel for candles, because about 35 of them had managed to find their way in there with no hope of ever coming out, since I can't see into that cabinet without standing in a chair. At this rate it will take me a month to get finished with the kitchen but maybe a goal of one room a month is more manageable for me. And maybe the Clean House people will show up before I have to do it all myself.