The poor Attic, it can’t seem to help itself. It’s a big empty hole, like a black hole, and it keeps sucking things in and piling them up. Its appetite is ferocious never allowing it to feel full enough.

When I first saw it, I was in awe of its potential. The peak is 15 ft. high, and it runs the length and width of the house. Oh, what we could do with this space! Space, glorious space – unless it’s a black hole.

“If” we could ever earn enough money we could build 3 bedrooms and a bathroom up there. Ten years later and it’s full of empty dreams, lost projects, memories and leftovers of children who’ve moved on. Boxes and boxes of stuff that someone thinks they will need someday, or they are just too sentimental to let go of. The attic needs an intervention program – I’ll call AA (Attic’s Anonymous).

My attic’s 12 step program

1. My attic admits it’s powerlessness over gluttony, and that it has become unmanageable.
2. My attic accepts that only a power greater than itself can restore it to sanity.
3. My attic has made a decision to hand the power over to a higher power.
4. My attic and it’s higher powers are in a fearless process of soul searching, and taking inventory of it’s contents.
5. My attic and it’s higher powers are admitting their wrongs to one another.
6. My attic is ready to allow the higher powers to remove whatever is unnecessary and unhelpful.
7. The attic begs to be free of clutter.
8. The attic and it’s higher powers promise to make amends.
9. Making amends will be a gradual lifelong process.
10. The attic and it’s higher powers promise to keep each other accountable.
11. The attic beseeches the higher powers for wisdom and the will to remain clean and improve itself.
12. Having been awakened, the attic will strive to be a good example for other attic’s everywhere.