July 2010 Blog Posts (8)

http://www.30minutemartha.com/2010/07/26/throw-out-fifty-things-update-1/

I haven't gone through my things lately because the weather has been too nice to be indoors. Instead, I have been tending to my vegetable and flower garden.

Over the years I have built up my flower garden with many perennials. Some of the flowers started out from seeds that I picked from wild flowers.

This year I really think the flowers look spectacular. But, then I noticed that I allowed some pretty flowering Queen Anns Lace grow too close to the vegetable…

Been in a clearing out mode for a few weeks and found this site by accident but have been using it as my carrot to keep going. Bulldozed through the house, but mostly got rid of garbage aka mail that should have been straight in trash, broken things and such. Finally got through the house, including the guestroom which had become a catchall over the past few months after having established it as a guestroom.

So, today, I continued to purge by emptying my shop/junk room/office. It was…

Here's something to let go of . Ready? Let go of thinking that you have to do everything yourself; that no one cares about "it" the way you do; that you're alone. You're not. So why do so many of us act like we are? The fact is, there are all sorts of people out there who can help us - and would if we gave them half a…