This week...

It's been a housekeeping sort of week.  Yesterday I caught up on the laundry, and today I tackled cleaning out Lillian's dresser drawer.  I realize that doesn't sound like a big job, but it really is for me, and I was talking to a friend today and trying to figure out why that is.  Here's what I've decided:

I can't throw things away.

Revolutionary, I know.  :-)

Why is this?  I think it's a combination of the old 'it still has use in it and I can't *waste* something that is still in the category of perfectly good' and 'I have an emotional attachment to this item because my child wore it'.  Whatever it is, I have trouble getting rid of clothes.  So today I worked on L's clothes and passing along the ones that were too small, disposing of the clothes that were too stained, and packing up the rest.  Now, on to the rest of the clothes....

This afternoon I made ginger rhubarb jam, which is just one of my absolute favourite preserves.  And again, I think I make jam because I can't bear to waste all the rhubarb!  Clearly this frugality thing is deep in my bones.