Showing posts with label puzzles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puzzles. Show all posts

Saturday, January 19, 2019

It’s time to go, completed jigsaw puzzles, 224/365





      I don’t hoard jigsaw puzzle but I’m continually letting go of them. I let go as I complete them, which happens all the time because I always have one spread out on the dining room table, and I am at it every day.
      


Working on a jigsaw puzzle helps me let go thoughts and chatter that clutters my head, as I concentrate an that one little piece in my hand.
     I get puzzles at the put-and-take, yard sales and church fairs, from friends and as gifts. I hardly every buy one full price.
    The puzzles in the stack shown here are ready to be put together. When completed, out they will go.




Friday, November 13, 2015

Oh, dear, accumulating puzzles. 197/365


Yesterday I did some more tidying in the front room. My plan had been to get rid of many books, but I just couldn’t do it….yet. The good news is that the room is becoming livable. The bad news is that in helping organize books and puzzles for the church fair, I came home with ten new puzzles, which I’ve already put on the shelf, each one waiting to be selected as my next challenge. That won’t be until after Christmas, when hopefully I will have finish the 2000 piece dog puzzle I’m working on now. 








Monday, November 9, 2015

Letting go of books and puzzles~Day 194/365

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Here I am, at it again, determined to keep going on the purge that started August 20, 2012 when I got rid of piggy banks. My plan back then was to let go of something every day for a year. Well, what kind of sensible plan was that? Not very, although today I am at day 194, over half way through. It was a year ago minus a day that I posted Day 193/365.
     Three years later and we are still in the same house, with no intention to move from this place, although we are now three years older--mid-seventies. Although my mother lived to be 101*, I’m not planning on that, nor can I trust that it will happen.
       All the stuff in this house doesn’t bother my husband, who says we can get out of here in three months if we have to; but it weighs heavily on me, so I’m the one who has to get going.
     Today it is books and puzzles. Perfect timing because the church fair is Saturday. Here goes a carload.

* My excuse for not keeping up the daily purge is that I was writing a book about my mother and me. The Story of My Hundred Year Old Mother and Me. You can check it out on Amazon. Just key in “Very Grateful.”


* My excuse for not keeping up the daily purge is that I was writing a book about my mother and me. The Story of My Hundred Year Old Mother and Me. You can check it out on Amazon. Just key in “Very Grateful.” 


Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Day 168/365 It’s time to go, more books on the shelf


       So far I’m been loyal to my commitment to clear off a shelf a day in the parlor. Books continue to land in paper bags destined for the put-and take or the church fair. Others are in piles for friends who have young children. This is when letting go of stuff is at it’s best. I pay a visit, read to the kids and leave the books with them. It makes it possible/easy to let go of favorite story books, books that I read to my children and grandchildren, books that are out of print. 






     Then there are the puzzles. Which to keep, which to let go of? I don’t mind 1000 piece puzzles, in fact they are my favorites, but I like to be able to match the piece to the picture. All those puzzles in which the colors all blend into each other, out, out, out—it’s time for them to go. 












    NO!                                                                                                                   YES!