{"id":12505,"date":"2020-04-16T21:44:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T03:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=12505"},"modified":"2020-04-16T21:45:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T03:45:39","slug":"its-amazing-how-much-needs-to-be-thrown-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/its-amazing-how-much-needs-to-be-thrown-away\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Amazing How Much Needs To Be Thrown Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s amazing how much stuff you are able to throw away after you\u2019ve allowed it to sit I a pile for several years first\u2026.\u00a0 I say that because I just spent my entire day going through stacks and stacks\u2026and stacks\u2026of papers that have been piling up for years, and when I realized how many of those papers should have been thrown away after first reading them I had no choice to admit to myself that I have a serious problem \u2013 I am a certifiable paper hoarder!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My office at home had gotten so full of stacks of papers piled up on the floor, on the desk, even on the chairs, that it had become unusable for the last year.\u00a0 It was so full of stacks of papers everywhere that I have been going into my husband\u2019s home office and working from his desk most days, which drives him crazy &#8211; at least he says it drives him crazy. I think he secretly likes having me in there making piles of paper all over his space (tee hee).  No question about it, I\u2019m a paper hoarder, but at least I am finally admitting it which they say is the first step on the path to recovery&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My husband and I spent the entire day today filling massive trash bags with all my old stacks of papers to clean up my office.\u00a0 We went through every pile one by one and with every new stack I would look over it and think, \u201cwhy in the world did I every keep this stuff??!!\u201d\u00a0 No joke &#8211; if you\u2019d seen how many trash bags were filled today you wouldn\u2019t believe your eyes.\u00a0 What my eyes can&#8217;t believe is how amazing my home office looks now! It\u2019s like a Christmas miracle in April!!!\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lockdown time of pandemic is the perfect opportunity to go through every stack of paper in your house, go through all the old piles that have been collecting dust forever, empty out those closets and just THROW THINGS AWAY!\u00a0 You will be shocked how much stuff you find that you can get rid of.  Spend the weekend getting all your unnecessary garbage out of your life.\u00a0 Trust me \u2013 it feels AMAZING!!!!  \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Awesome-Looks-Like-Business\/dp\/1946633763\">What Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business &amp; Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s amazing how much stuff you are able to throw away after you\u2019ve allowed it to sit I a pile for several years first\u2026.\u00a0 I say that because I just spent my entire day going through stacks and stacks\u2026and stacks\u2026of papers that have been piling up for years, and when I realized how many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,23393,23397,23394,23395,3169,23396,13483,23392,23398,23400,744,23399,9785,23391,23401,19932],"class_list":["post-12505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-clean-your-home","tag-cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness","tag-feels-amazing","tag-get-rid-of-things","tag-hoarder","tag-organize-your-space","tag-paper-hoarder","tag-piles-of-paper","tag-piles-upon-piles","tag-save-everything","tag-spring-cleaning","tag-stacks-of-papers","tag-take-out-the-trash","tag-throw-out-the-trash","tag-unnecessary-stuff","tag-what-awesome-looks-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12507,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12505\/revisions\/12507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}