New Year's Resolutions Check

So, what with it nearing the middle of the year, do you even remember what your New Year's resolutions were? Mine, you may remember, was to end the year with less stuff than I began the year. Well, to date, I have gotten rid of two shirts I never wore, an air compressor that broke, a butter dish that chipped and left too sharp of an edge to use, and of course my cell phone. I have added two flower pots, two pairs of shorts, and some plants. I'm not sure if plants fit into this discussion. Plants are kind of consumables, like ground beef, only you don't need to refrigerate them.

I am increasingly aware of how full the house is. I've spent a fair amount of time rearranging stuff so that it all fits in better, kind of like jiggling the stuff in the kitchen junk/utensil drawer to get it to settle and make room for the potato masher. I have gently suggested to the other members of the household that any consideration of adding new things to the house should be accompanied by thoughts about what might leave the house. I'm not pushing the subject, because it is my resolution, not theirs. I always hated it when Mom got the cleaning bug and insisted that somehow that meant I should clean my room.

So the way I score it is that the shorts and the shirts cancel each other out, and the flower pots, the air compressor and the butter dish wash. That leaves me ahead by a cell phone, or at least potentially ahead by a cell phone since it hasn't really left the house yet, it just doesn't work anymore.

Maybe I need to get some big plastic storage bins so that I could have a place to keep all the stuff I want to throw out. I'm just saying.