De-cluttering

     Thank you, Albert and Margarita, for the lovely orchids. They look fantastisch on my window sill.

I hate to say this, but autumn will soon be around the corner, and it’s almost time to bring out our winter clothes. This year, I have given a lot of my clothes, etc., away to MCC and to thrift stores. 

I gave away clothes that no longer worked for me.

 Clothes that I no longer liked, were way out of style, too old, or no longer fit. Sad to say, with time...

our bodies change.

 I know that there is much work left to be done in me and in my not so big clothes closet, but I would like to get to the point where I don’t have to stand in front of my clothes each day and debate on what to wear.

 I joke around with Peter, by saying, 

“I want to be just like you: Five shirts is all I need.” 

I believe there is a certain “freedom” that comes with having less in my closet, and... 

in our home in general. 

It’s time to de-clutter, fix what is broken and paint what needs painting. 

Poor Peter, I am sure he is happy to be back at work. 

I will keep working at it, and quickly, or not so quickly, walk past the window shops... 

Wish me luck...!

From my grandmother I learned,

 “You needed one dress for the week and one dress for Sunday.” 

Hard to believe that they had an estate in Russia.

Germany-1930. Each person represents the head of the household before leaving for Paraguay. She immigrated with nine children; the youngest, Erna, was 11.

                      From my mother I learned, 

“Kleider machen Leute” (clothes make the man/person).

Buenos Aires, Argentina-1944?

 Johann Janzen (my father), Katja (my mother) Juan (my brother), Erica (my sister). Five years later, I came along. 

It took a long time to bake me!

                                           From my mother-in-law I learned, 

             “The poor need it more.”

  Olga Funk Goertzen, in our back yard--circa 2002.

       I wonder... What I am passing on?

One of these days I will attack my linen closet. I see too many towels and too many unnecessary/mismatched bed sheets, etc.

Happy "de-cluttering,"

Hilda