Time to get off the pot

We have almost been in our home for a year now. 

There are are a couple of problems, and I will take responsibility for them.

Some of my pictures are still wrapped up. 

Why?

First off I am not a decorator, it makes me anxious.  (I come by this naturally, I lived in my parents home for years with bare white walls) Do I really want that there?  Do I really want to punch  a hole in my freshly painted wall only to hate the location of this?

I realize this is ridiculous, and I know some of you all relish getting pictures up to make the house look like home. 

We actually donated about 40% of our wall hangings before this last move.  Contending that neither of us were in love with any of them, so why would we want to stare at them every day. 

I have decided that I will finish unwrapping art this week, I should look and see what we have at least.  Right? 

Plus I can always fix the holes.  Right?

Comments

[Pattie]

I have to chuckle at this...we called our "picture" box the Big Scary Box and I unloaded it a year after we moved here!

[AWTM]

thank goodness I found at least one other person out there, I was feeling like a BIG LOOSER!

[AWTM]

and it is scary!

[RedLegMeg]

Yes, you can always fix the holes! I'm one of those people who has to get the stuff up on the walls within a week of moving in somewhere new. It's a comfort thing for me...

C'mon AWTM, you can do it!

[AWTM]

RLM, this is actually more painful than ironing bedding

[Tootie]

I'm glad I'm not the only one! Our walls are pretty bare b/c my husband and I don't want to put excessive holes in the walls. But I think we've finally accepted our "minimalist" decor :)

Good luck with the decorating!

[She of the Sea]

I finally put up a bunch of stuff last week, but only because it has been a year and my in-laws were coming. All my smarty-pants friends have commented that I've finally bothered.

Now if only I could find the incentive to put up curtains instead of those tacky temporary blinds. Ugh!

[Joan D'Arc]

Right there with ya, AWTM! I have certain pictures I like to get up right away, then it will take me months of shuffling the "needs to be hung on the wall" piles around the house until I finally get around to it. IF I get around to it. While prepping for this PCS I have found 2 boxes with TONS of things we have had hung in other houses. I got rid of some of them, but most are family pictures of sorts. Since we will only be in our next duty station for one year I doubt I will have much hung up... or I won't get them up until it's time to take them down again. Such is life, I guess.