I am impulsive by nature.  You just have to look at me and my bank account to know that is true.  Impulsive in my spending.  Impulsive in my eating.  Impulsive in almost all aspects of my life.  I like instant gratification.  Amazon.com is the closest I have ever come to pure bliss.  I want a book, I down load it instantly.  I want a new toy or whatever and they deliver it the next day.  I love you Amazon, but you probably are not good for me.

I bring up the impulsive behavior because the decision to move was in the end, like all of my decisions, based on impulse.  Most of the time when I make a decision, it happens immediately.  But I made an impulsive decision that won't take place for 9 months.  Can that really be impulsive?  I'm not sure.  But the decision has been made.  I don't anticipate any change in that except for the where.  So what do I do in the mean time.  How do I fight this urge to just get on with it?

One of the things is to start the downsizing.  I hear my daughter's voice in my head often.  It use to be my mother's.  Now it's Kate's.  She says, "you are always doing this.  You get rid of things, give them away and then you get something to replace it."  And that is true.  But I am hoping this time will be different.  The change is going to have to be a mental one as well as a physical one.  I am going to have to let go of the picture of the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving that never happens.  I am going to have to let go of the guest bedroom that only gets occupied a couple of times a year.  Even the idea of space and size is going to have to change.

The article that I read on decluttering said that you should do something every day.  She also suggested starting with the easy stuff.  So I cleaned out my t-shirt drawer.  Actually I had 3 t shirt drawers.  Now I have 2 but the second drawer is for t-shirts that use to be in my closet.  I hung on to t-shirts that long ago had gotten stains because I could sleep in them.  And some of them I have.   But most of them just sit in the drawer.  I wondered what to do with them after I put them in the plastic garbage bag.  I wondered out loud where to take them for recycling.  It turns out, because my roommate looked it up, that The Good Will and The Salvation Army takes any kind of clothing.  They sort through them and the ones that can't be resold are recycled through various places for various things and only about 20% end up becoming land fill.  That is good news.  And I don't even have to separate the good from the bad.  I did my sock drawer too.  What next.?
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