While having a distanced beverage with a friend from work, he remarked that he'd been thinking of selling his house and buying another. But, that during his COVID isolation, he'd gotten around to lots of little house projects. Once he painted that small patch on the wall left from the new thermostat, he loved his house again. Mind you, when thinking of moving, it wasn't because of the patch, though certainly it bothered him. He couldn't enunciate exactly why he wanted to move. But once it was fixed/painted, he felt much better about his surroundings.
Clutter kind of works that way for me. I don't know it is bothering me until I get rid of it. Ahh. Its like a breath of fresh air. Same with yard work. I'm not much of a gardener these days, but oh, how much better I feel when the yard is tidy.
I think we just get used to the slow dilapidation of things around us. I don't notice the issue because it got that way slowly. The plate in by our shower control came un-secured, so it doesn't line up with the control. This drives me crazy. But not crazy enough to deal with it.
Often, when clients get their house all spiffed up to sell, they remark on how nice it feels, and that they should have done the work long ago. And often, during a home inspection , sellers bristle to a repair request with; "its been that way a long time" as if a buyer should be okay just because they (the sellers) have put up with the issue for a long time.
It is interesting, that we don't necessarily notice the weight we carry with some of these seemingly minor things. Only realizing, once they are tended to, their effect on us. Have you tended to a nagging chore around the house? Is there one that still bugs you?
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