and pardon me for being blunt...

But I am tired of the media telling me how to live.

If your lifestyle is comfortable for YOU, then who cares?

If it bothers you, then by all means try to change something.

Some people get upset and irritable in chaos. Others, like my husband, feel comfortable with less than perfection. He is not as extreme as his grandfather was, and I have had to learn to live with it. And now in our golden years, I see myself slipping into chaos. When he worked at the office he had a rep for messy desk. He had a sign saying ~~ If a cluttered desk is a sign of the cluttered mind, what is an empty desk a sign of? ~~~ (an empty mind?)
He has the highest clearance rate in his division, for cases. So no one bothers him about the clutter. Today I reminded him about the dining room table...I told him if he cleared up his stuff there, I would work on the studio. This has stimulated him some for this weekend.

What I have observed is that when people are involved in reading, doing stuff, and constantly learning, like we do, STUFF accumulates, and it is hard to find a place to put it after a while.

One of my New Year's resolutions is to get my studio in shape. And another
was to clean out my Bookmarks on this computer. So yesterday, I did 3 pages of bookmarks! I am so proud of myself! LOL it is not finished, but much much better.
Today I am going to work on the studio for one hour. I break large jobs into
small blocks of time..and that seems to work better. We've been in this place for about 40 yrs and have accumulated alot. And I admit, I am sentimental! duh? I certainly don't want to feel GUILTY for that!

While we were out the other day my husband said that he could feel the depression starting to creep back in...he's a collector/hoarder...hates to get rid of anything...everything has a use, even if its been sitting there for ten years...its "use" is to collect dust.

Sorry, if it hasn't been used in a year or two, it doesn't need to be taking up space, collecting dust, and getting in my way. I have been known to be a good organizer but that title has slipped through my fingers. I guess it depends on what I am trying to organize.

In recent weeks I have started disposing of odds and ends...more junk than anything....old magazines, my old stuffed animals have gone to a friend's 3 children, I've weeded clothes out of the closet that I know for a fact haven't been worn in 15 years that I know of and maybe longer....and for sure clothes that were way to small....

My question is, is my cleaning stuff out and trying to find the countertops, floors, etc...possibly contributing to his depression starting to return? He's been off his meds for several years, this doctor didn't feel he needed them.