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Five items of worn out winter clothing.
3 worn out pairs of shoes, 5 empty cardboard boxes from the shed, all went to the trash/recycling.
Sold a leaf blower.
Gave away linoleum scraps, and shade cloth.
Teacher Terry
5-5-19, 9:59pm
I have a box for the thrift store and threw away a pair of shoes.
Brought 8 hand-me-downs to a friend's daughter.
rosarugosa
5-12-19, 6:01am
DH & I weeded though a couple of folders full of recipes and cooking info and got rid of about 75%. I also decluttered a kitchen bookcase that had become a bit of a crap catch-all.
happystuff
5-12-19, 9:01am
Had a donation pickup last week. Probably 15-20 items. I really need to go through more stuff!!! lol.
iris lilies
5-15-19, 4:11pm
AsAlways, in May, I am purging crap tons of Iris.
Took a bunch of stuff to our church for a yard sale. Comforter, quilt, two throw blankets, a bunch of perfectly good clothes my 19 yo daughter is "tired of," same with some eye shadow palettes, some housewares, a couple pairs of shoes, fairy garden stuff.
Work emails from my old role.
Took the slideboard that I had used only a few times and that was years ago, to Goodwill. So glad to get it from under the bed which was the best place to store it.
The space under my bed is completely empty....well except for dust bunnies but now I will be able to vacuum them.
iris lilies
5-17-19, 6:16pm
I am attending out-of-town flower show training, and I took about 25 iris rhizomes - nice ones not crap – to give away and I rid myself of all of them.
I put a notice out on Nextdoor to my neighborhood and three nearby neighborhoods to go and dig the iris left in my spare garden. There are hundreds of them. A few are in bloom, most are not.
We are going to start mowing that lot next month So I want to see all the iris out of there. I suppose I can open it up to craigslist, I’ve done that before, but I am afraid what the unleashed hordes will leave.. I am trying to get a notice out to my Iris Society but my email program won’t push an email out to everyone so that is too bad. This week in his prime time to dig.
Teacher Terry
5-17-19, 6:42pm
2 more bags to the thrift store today.
rosarugosa
5-23-19, 6:49pm
My seasonal closet clean-out has yielded 14 items to go out. I've brought 16 items of clothing into the house this year, so I'm challenging myself to tip that balance and have more items out than in.
We got a dumpster. There will be some serious purging going on.
In the Purge Obstructionist Department, we have hit roadblocks by our kids who hear of something we're getting rid of and then the pleas begin:
"You might want to find out what the antique Chinese filing cabinet is really worth."
"You are selling Aunt F's antique Chippendale dresser to a furniture restoration guy in Brooklyn for $75?? I'll take it and put it n the baby's room!"
"I want your Marine uniform, Dad!"
"I want Uncle I's 70s turntable!"
"I want Grandma's 1960's kitchen set"
"Don't throw out that painting my grandfather painted, Mom!"
"You didn't sell [X,Y,Z] at the garage sale, did you??"
"You're NOT going to sell the Led Zeppelin vinyls are you??"
But we are really looking forward to taking advantage of that dumpster anyway.
rosarugosa
5-23-19, 7:26pm
Oh Catherine, that does sound challenging! You'll have to be very firm about making them take possession of the things they want!
iris lilies
5-23-19, 7:34pm
Yay for the dumpster catherine. Your kids don’t get to tell you what you cannot throw out. They can drive to your house to pick up stuff pronto, otherwise it goes to dumpster land.
Teacher Terry
5-23-19, 7:40pm
When we downsized I offered things to my kids but they had to go. For one son I mailed him some small items. He couldn’t afford to have a few furniture pieces shipped so I sold them. My local kids had to take it quickly. You need to be totally no nonsense about this. Be brutal
Cleaned out part of a folder while sitting on hold. I think I should do this every time I'm on hold.
rosarugosa
5-24-19, 5:54am
Cleaned out part of a folder while sitting on hold. I think I should do this every time I'm on hold.
Great idea. Anything productive you can do while on hold is a win!
We got a dumpster. There will be some serious purging going on.
In the Purge Obstructionist Department, we have hit roadblocks by our kids who hear of something we're getting rid of and then the pleas begin:
"You might want to find out what the antique Chinese filing cabinet is really worth."
"You are selling Aunt F's antique Chippendale dresser to a furniture restoration guy in Brooklyn for $75?? I'll take it and put it n the baby's room!"
"I want your Marine uniform, Dad!"
"I want Uncle I's 70s turntable!"
"I want Grandma's 1960's kitchen set"
"Don't throw out that painting my grandfather painted, Mom!"
"You didn't sell [X,Y,Z] at the garage sale, did you??"
"You're NOT going to sell the Led Zeppelin vinyls are you??"
But we are really looking forward to taking advantage of that dumpster anyway.
My response: FANTASTIC! Pick it up this weekend or out it goes:cool:
rosarugosa
5-24-19, 5:22pm
5 more shirts out the door. Sister helped me review some of the things I was on the fence about, and she was very helpful.
Went through my jewelry - got rid of two bags of stuff that I don't really care for anymore. Have decided to enjoy quality pieces and let the cheaper costume stuff go. DH and DS had to move two bookshelves out of our family room downstairs earlier this month due to storms flooding the room. The books are upstairs on the living room floor. I want DH and I to go through them (yet again) and declutter. Easier for me than for DH.
rosarugosa
5-28-19, 4:54pm
Went through my jewelry - got rid of two bags of stuff that I don't really care for anymore. Have decided to enjoy quality pieces and let the cheaper costume stuff go. DH and DS had to move two bookshelves out of our family room downstairs earlier this month due to storms flooding the room. The books are upstairs on the living room floor. I want DH and I to go through them (yet again) and declutter. Easier for me than for DH.
I'm sorry to hear about your flooding. That couldn't have been very pleasant.
We've decided to pull the trigger and spend the $$$ to put in French drains and a sump pump. Which means replacing the flooring (which has been on the radar, but now it's sooner rather than later) and replace the paneling and insulation with new drywall. The flooding wasn't bad (only soaked the carpet except for an inch or so in one corner), but just a big, expensive PITA. I'm done.
We've decided to pull the trigger and spend the $$$ to put in French drains and a sump pump. Which means replacing the flooring (which has been on the radar, but now it's sooner rather than later) and replace the paneling and insulation with new drywall. The flooding wasn't bad (only soaked the carpet except for an inch or so in one corner), but just a big, expensive PITA. I'm done.
Oh, boy. I can relate. Our neighborhood has a high water table. We were in the house for a few months when we had a very heavy rain storm, and we got water in the basement knee-deep--we had stored a lot of stuff down that and most of it was ruined. So I asked my neighbor if her stuff was ruined, too, and she said, "don't you have a sump pump?" She has the same model of house I do, and I didn't even realize that I had a French drain and sump pump. I didn't have it turned on.
We have used that pump several times over the years when heavy rains come. I think you are making a good investment, beckyliz.
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