Decluttering so I have room for more interesting stuff in my head

It is with great relief I have dropped/blocked Groupon, Gilt, Foundary, Living Social, all of those sites. Done. For starters, my life, realistically, does not allow me to fit time-limited coupons into it. It’s hard enough for me to schedule things – to then have a deadline on getting a deal….I go places when it works into my life. There are no savings great enough to drive that bus for me. I’ve got back minutes per day spent either deleting them, or worse, checking them out, only to think wait, I could get this cheaper if I went direct, or if I’m going to have my follicles zapped with a laser, who do I want doing that, someone who’s giving it away to get new clients or someone with a waiting list? I’ve seen those coupons damn near RUIN restaurants, so I find it hard to get behind them, and again, if I go, the odds of good service and happy service are slim to none if the promotion was “successful”. Oh, I’ve used a few, and it worked out – but it’s just too bloody hard to coordinate. It’s not for me.

And it’s a huge relief to recognize that. There is stuff I’m simply not going to bother with anymore because the payoff is not worth the effort/time/money it takes to get there. I was frustrated at my attempts to declutter the house this summer – having had one weekend eaten up by having no power at all, one and a half to no air conditioning and two and a half to being sick. And then I realized – hey, there is other stuff I can “declutter”. Why am I going to the petstore every two weeks to buy cat food? Screw it. Buy enough to last two months and be done having to think about it, plus saving two lunch breaks buying damn cat food. And having to explain only six times a year instead of 24, that yes, I DO have a lot of cats.

( Sometimes I'm a jerk and say oh, just one, but he's really, really big. )