Christmas is over and while I am putting all the decorations away I am looking forward to 2009. I don't make New Year's resolutions because I never seem to really stick to them, but my goal for this year is to get the downsizing over and simplify my life at home. I have lived in transition for about seven or eight years and have moved three times during 2008 so I "NEED" to get order in my home. I hope some of you other sixty somethings out there stumble over this blog and throw out some ideas. If I were doing this for someone else I wouldn't have any problem, but the detritus of over 40 years of marriage and raising a family is so hard to get rid of. Not to mention the estates of "stuff" I inherited from an aunt and my mother. Emotional attachments make some of the most worthless stuff hard to get rid of. If you find this blog and have good ideas chime in. PLEASE, Agathamae