Oh no! Just 36 weeks till Christmas

I have mentioned before how skillful I am at avoiding some of the chores I need to do to organize my Christmas junk. I probably need to get off my rear and just wrap it up.

I was guilted into going into the room of horrors AKA the room with the gigantic holiday decorations closet where nothing was really put away and instead is strewn all over the room.* You know who you are, person who guilted me, and I did not appreciate the guilt trip even for a minute. 

But I went upstairs and worked in it a bit. Like Kay says in her blog. I am eating the metaphorical elephant one bite at a time. I think the reason it is taking me so long is because I don't like being in the room, the clutter is overwhelming, and I just flat out own too much stuff!  I really need to have people come over and take whatever they want. Except for the very few items I am sentimental about, I probably would never even notice it was gone.

I have decorations for every holiday imaginable, and normal years finds me decorating for each one. This year I have been putting off organizing everything for so long that I am kind of ignoring all but very minimal decor.

Take this Easter season for example. I have bunnies and baskets, and all kinds of Easter regalia in my stash, but my Easterizing this time was to place hand painted china eggs on Easter grass in a silver Paul Revere bowl. It is sitting in the middle of the dining room table. The only other thing I did was to change my alphabet blocks from Valentine's Day to Happy Easter, and I only did that this past week. It seems Poor St. Patrick was passed over entirely. 

I read Wally Lamb's Wishin' and Hopin' A Christmas Book, because I was cleaning our bedroom and found it in a stack of books I accidentally knocked off the bookshelf. I had read it once before, but had completely forgotten what it was about. I got to read it again for the second first time. It was really a good read, and I enjoyed it, but I decided I need to put it in the charity donation box or 10 years from now I will forget about it and read it again for the third first time.

Other than that I have nothing. No shopping or gift buying because I can't drive right now and  I am not going to get TheHub to take me shopping for anything but groceries.

This week I plan on trying at least one new to me possible Christmas recipe, but I planned on trying one last week and it never happened. So perhaps!

*This room was my former office, then Pip's toddler bedroom**, next I set it up for DIL3 to have a private place to work when they were here***, and now it is used for nothing except to collect things I have not put in the proper place. Fortunately it has a door so no one ever has to see the mess.

**Pip now has a different bedroom with a queen size, rather than a toddler bed. It is decorated somewhat to her specs.

** *We put different and more comfortable furniture in the upstairs music room, and I also bought a new couch for the main level den. They are now her two favorite spots to work when they visit.