MAG, if you didn't go anywhere on your vacation, what will help you feel good about the time away from work? Try an incremental de-cluttering. Would a beautiful, usaable room make you feel relaxed, regenerated? Then how do you get there?

Go to the smallest room in your house. A closet could be that room, but for most of us, the room we chose was the laundry room or a foyer. Take everything out and put back only what needs to be there. What are you going to do with the rest? Do you need it? Should it be someplace else? Can you donate it, or sell it?

It's something that we each have to tackle in a way that makes us comfortable. I'm amazed that months later I'm still doing this. How could it take so long? Because I wasn't letting myself include "big things" like furniture, chairs, tables, sofas. I feel like I'm at a point where I can choose and evict some of the larger pieces, but I can't afford to give it away if I can sell it, since I do have debt. I have to compromise--clear it out and get what I can without spending so much time selling it that it's a waste of time.

Does that help?

SRS