This picture was taken a while back, when my desk was neater than it is now. The clutter on my desk should give my readers an idea of what I let happen in my apartment since the pandemic started. The rest of the bedroom was in worse condition, but I took some time today to clean things up a little in fits and spurts.
Cleaning up this apartment post-covid has been an exercise in frustration. It seems like I take 2 steps forward while taking 1 step backward. Thankfully, RQS has been with me to help on occasion, and things have gradually started to look better. While straightening things up, I was able to clean up space in my dining area and make the area around my air conditioner much more accessible than it has been in a dog's age. The same goes for the bedroom, as I've taken the time to throw out more stuff and sort through things that need to find better homes.
RQS notes that we have both accumulated a lot of stuff over the past 30-40 years, and that we don't have enough room to move about in our apartments. Yet, neither of us likes having accumulated as much as we have accumulated. We are not alone. At least, we can gradually eliminate much of the unneeded stuff in our apartments by giving much of it away. Hoarders can not and will not do so. Hopefully, we will continue the gradual clean out of unneeded stuff from our places, so that we have the option to merge our households sometime in the future. Only time will tell...
