Good Morning.

What and where is Shabby Chic???? It sounds interesting.

Yesterday we went to our daughter Annettes for Morgans 16th. Itwas really nice to spend the afternoon with the family.

Today, I am doing the laundry, cleaning out one of the rods in my closet, putting away the suitcases from last week, and doing a few plantings in the yard. Also doing some ribs for dinner, starting them on the grill. I also need to figure out what I want to wear tomorrow night to a Mother Daughter Tea, in Bloomington. It will be work casual/to work  dressy dress.

In regaurd to yesterdays topic, I think everyone has a few hangups. That is what makes us, us.

Hugs,

Hi again, I've done it with shopping, clearly with food, yarn and with fantasy. I received a huge amount of help from Overeaters Anonymous and even though I still overrate my way to surgery I never binged  again like I used to. I also gave up soap operas, romance novels and fantasy relationships ( like my own private soap opera in my head) through working the 12 steps. There are meetings of Shopaholics Anonymous in the Chicago area. I highly recommend working some 12step program. It's saved by life and my sanity. If you struggle with any of the concepts, message me and I'll share what I've learned in 33 years in program. 

Connie

Sharon, you are not a hoarder! You take things to goodwill, you dispose of things. You have a reason to buy things.

I have at least 35 bath towels, 6 sets of sheets for 1 king size bed, I only have 1 set for each of the twin beds. I love buying different wine glasses, and dishes. As well as serving peieces. And I have enough jewelry making stuff and scrapebooking stuff to start my own shop. I guess what I am saying is we all buy to much stuff. I also go to the grocery store every week, for whatever. My mother did that too. Hers was because they grew up during the depression, mine, because she did it.

Huggers,

Happy Sunny Saturday!

I was able to spend the day with the babies yesterday. Something that has been happening lately when I do this; I stay for about another 45 minutes to an hour after my son-in-law gets home and we sit and chat. Over the past 8 years our relationship has evolved from, "who the heck is this guy" to "friend". We seem to really like each other. That is an accomplishment. I say this with real love, because I love him like I birthed him. But to like him too is a lovely extra.

I am working on some issues that have kept me from God the way I need to be with Him.

Because i feel safe here and because I just need to finally say it to someone else besides myself; I shop for the wrong reasons to the point of it being an issue. I have always had issues with money. Personal issues. I think it goes back to the way my mom parented me in this regard. I tend to overbuy things.  I am like a binge drinker or binge eater only I do it with shopping. I go long periods and buy nothing and then all of a sudden I buy one type of thing constantly. At Christmas-time it was kitchen stuff; bowls, serving platters, green pans etc. Last fall it was decorating stuff for my kitchen. Recently it was magazines about gardening. I am ashamed of this. I also do this with food sometimes, or with books. I realize that these things then become too big for me to house in a normal fashion. (who needs 35 bath towels) so I put them in places I can find room for them and then forget about them. Recenlly my daughter told me she thinks I am a hoarder. I was horrified. Hoarder?????? Isnt that someone who has so much stuff that you cannot walk around in their house, or someone who cant use their house because its so full of junk? Isnt it a junk palace? If you walk in my house it doesnt look like the hoarder houses on TV. But then I started to pray and asked God to show me what is going on and I realized something. "I AM A HOARDER". I am working on this and know God will heal me. But the way I got to this point is not good and I need to deal with those issues. Hoarding is only a component to the real problem. I need to dig deep and figure out what that is. I believe it relates to my weight issues as well.  

G and I have discussed it and he seemed relieved that I brought it up. He has tendencies to keep lots of junk around and he knows he also has issues. We are hoping to deal with some of the common areas like the garage together. It overwhelms me to think of keeping everything to prepare for a garage sale, I just take the stuff to goodwill.

G is at his dad's today so his mom could go out for the day. I am commited to doing something positive in regards to this hoarding issue. I've prayed about it, told you guys and now I am going to oragnize and deplete.

Thanks for listening my dear ones.

Hugs,

Sharon