Comments on: Does “For Now” Have to Mean Forever? How to Avoid Settling for Less https://lisanotes.com/does-for-now-mean-forever/ on Life and Love Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:08:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Jean Wise https://lisanotes.com/does-for-now-mean-forever/#comment-337079 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:08:45 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43505#comment-337079 I planned an upcoming blog post on two word mantras before reading yours on for now, I think Emily Freeman just posted on quite similar to this recently too. Thinking God is moving these phrases in all of our lives right now. You took an interesting twist to this though has I hadn’t consider any of my two word mantras to be obstacles but then again they could be. Good insight and something to be consider….. Thank you dear friend for a fresh perspective….

]]> By: Ashley Rowland https://lisanotes.com/does-for-now-mean-forever/#comment-337078 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:04:14 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43505#comment-337078 I just moved a “for now” pile of papers from my desk to the table, so I could start working.

]]> By: Melissa https://lisanotes.com/does-for-now-mean-forever/#comment-337074 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:51:25 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43505#comment-337074 Hi Lisa! Thank you so much for this well-timed prod! I, too, tend to put something somewhere and that’s where it just stays. And yes, we have a junk drawer and a coat closet filled to the brim and a handful of other spaces that are begging to be cleared and re-set. Summer is not the time for such projects in my world, but your experiences shared here have re-inspired me to work on a to-do list for the coldest months. Also, double YAY for new floors and fresh paint! How fantastic!

]]> By: Erin https://lisanotes.com/does-for-now-mean-forever/#comment-337073 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:33:38 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43505#comment-337073 My mother has the “for now” mindset. For now she will stay at a church that is dying. For now she will stay in her house that has too many steps to climb. For now she will keep my band uniform from 1988. And I am accused of throwing or giving things away too quickly. Maybe it’s a difference in generations. This was a great piece.

]]> By: Nancy Ruegg https://lisanotes.com/does-for-now-mean-forever/#comment-337072 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:32:26 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43505#comment-337072 Thank you for setting the example, Lisa! I’ve been guilty of “for now” procrastination. After 40 years in FL where there are no basements (to my knowledge), we now live in the Midwest and revel in all the extra space a basement provides. However! We too have discovered the danger of an all-too-convenient location for stuff we don’t quite know what to do with. After all, in another decade, the kids might want some items of their grandparents. Maybe one of the granddaughters will take an interest in old things. One project our older son is working on: digitizing all the old photos (many from my husband’s sister, still in frames) so all three siblings will have access to them. We’re also working on names, dates, and the bits of history we can gather. Then we can at least get rid of dozens of frames–I hope!

]]> By: Two Chicks and a Mom https://lisanotes.com/does-for-now-mean-forever/#comment-337071 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:52:57 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43505#comment-337071 Oh, I love this post! Yes, I am a “for now” person; it just seems less painful to say you will deal with it later. As I get older, I realize this is not realistic–one day, I won’t be there to finally take care of it! Thanks for the inspiring post and motivation this has given me.

]]> By: Mona R McGinnis https://lisanotes.com/does-for-now-mean-forever/#comment-337070 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:27:38 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43505#comment-337070 The first nail in the newly painted walls is the hardest! I would echo Debbie’s thoughts. The old table will work for now until the replacement shows up. Keep looking.

]]> By: Debbie Wilson https://lisanotes.com/does-for-now-mean-forever/#comment-337069 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:49:31 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43505#comment-337069 Starting with everything fresh and clean must provide a strong incentive not to re-clutter or settle as well as the pull to just be done. I have some areas that my “for now” stacks have stayed too long.

]]> By: Barbara Harper https://lisanotes.com/does-for-now-mean-forever/#comment-337068 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:21:12 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43505#comment-337068 I created all kinds of piles by putting something I didn’t know what to do with in a closet “for now.” I’m better about that these days, but we’ve also just finished going through boxes of that kind of thing from previous homes.

It takes me a long time to make a decision about household things, so a lot of things are kept for now. It does tend to make it convenient to putting off the decision making, though.

]]> By: LisaNotes https://lisanotes.com/does-for-now-mean-forever/#comment-337067 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:39:14 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43505#comment-337067 In reply to Martha J Orlando.

I’m not sure I had thought of “for now” as such a hindrance either until this process of putting our house back together. Just the frequency with which I tend to say it has been startling. ha.

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