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Old Oct 24, 2012, 07:28 PM
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Oh, I remember. Weren't you cleaning FOR the cleaning crew? That's what I would have to do too. My house is too much of a disaster to let any cleaning people in! My H hates them, too. But I'm glad for you. A few times I've had people clean my house and it was wonderful. We have to move the stuff off the floor and shelves first and that's next to impossible. Radical acceptance is what I practice, though I just threw out a huge stack of annual reports from 2011 that were sitting on the floor next to our steps going upstairs! Some were even from earlier! If my H wants to go through the recycling, let him!
We had to practice radical acceptance in having the cleaners come in. H asked if ours was the worst house they'd ever seen and all 3 said, "Not even close."

We got rid of a lot of stuff. We're both pack rats by nature, but we realized that it just wasn't worth it anymore, so if it were something that we haven't used in the last year or two, we threw it away, put it in the recycling, or packed it up to give away.
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