{"id":82,"date":"2012-02-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/clearing-out-the-clutter-most-of-the-time\/"},"modified":"2012-02-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T12:00:00","slug":"clearing-out-the-clutter-most-of-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/clearing-out-the-clutter-most-of-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing Out the Clutter – Most of the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am not a hoarder – quite the opposite. I love to get rid of things I’m not using or don’t need: clothes, household items, papers, etc. There’s constantly a box in my basement for goodwill items. Once I take them to the store, it’s not long before I start another box.<\/p>\n

For me, there’s something thrilling about organizing a drawer or closet or space and purging out what isn’t necessary or useful. My husband jokes when I get into organizing mode that the rest of the family should watch out or Mom might organize them all out of the house.<\/p>\n

Interestingly this need to organize and purge doesn’t apply to the various manuscripts on my hard drive. And thank goodness for that! As I was going through my edits the other week, I found a spot where my editor felt one chapter ended too abruptly. She wanted me to add more to the scene. To my relief – and luck – I found a continuation of that scene, which I’d written about five years ago and kept on my computer – just in case. Having that scene already written made it easy to rework and plug it into the spot I needed it. So, as much as it pains me to say, there are times when it’s good to keep a little clutter around.<\/p>\n

Are you a hoarder or are you all about clearing out the clutter (a get-ridder)? What things are easy to let go of? What things are harder? <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not a hoarder – quite the opposite. I love to get rid of things I’m not using or don’t need: clothes, household items, papers, etc. There’s constantly a box in my basement for goodwill items. Once I take them to the store, it’s not long before I start another box. For me, there’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacyhenrie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}