So I do have a great reason for not writing for three weeks. It's not because we have had company for those three weeks...we loved having my parents and my sister's family visit. It's the "unwelcomed" visitors that tag along with us from Florida late last year.
Bed bugs! Nasty little things I must say and something I thought never existed any more but for only an old quote I would say to my parents when I was younger before heading for bed, "good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite"!
If I knew about how easily those things can travel on your luggage I would have brought along my tiny flashlight and spotted those creatures in the home we rented while in Disney World.
TIP: Before travel read up on how to spot them and NEVER place luggage on your bed or on the floor.
So I have been busy bagging EVERYTHING in the house, clothes, toys, nic nacs and such so that our house could be fumigated. That was the easy part. The hard part is bringing things back in and not re-contaminating.
This brings me to the title of this blog. WANTS VS. NEEDS. While our garage is now filled with floor to ceiling garbage bags of stuff knowing that I have to wash everything in there or bag it for 3 months it made us analyse what we really needed.
Clothes that haven't been worn for the past 6 months to a year... OUT. Items that have been looking sad as of late...OUT. It actually became quit cleansing. Even with all the stress it brought along there was a part of me that felt a weight lifted by getting rid of bags and bags of nothing but STUFF!
There is something to be said about spring cleaning.
My washing machine is calling me... got to go.
