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The cheap falling apart sneakers I got at Walmart when all the regular shoe stores were closed and a bunch of plastic bags, which I can't reuse at stores or the library due to covid.
Teacher Terry
7-3-20, 12:15pm
Once the washer and dryer were gone yesterday my husband got inspired to clean the garage and is actually throwing things away.
Over 100 pieces of paper. Now I can close my file cabinet drawer without struggling. You would think by going paperless with things like insurance policies I would accumulate less paper but it never seems to work out that way.
I have 2 pie plates and 1 quiche/pie plate. I do not bake pies (well, maybe once a year). I pulled out the Pampered Chef one and have listed it on Poshmark and Facebook Marketplace. If it doesn't sell - I'll put it in the upcoming October garage sale I'm having with my friend. If it doesn't sell then - donate. This will be my MO going forward until October.
happystuff
7-7-20, 12:06pm
Sold a set of four dumbbells - just picked up. yay!
Totally emptied my dive spares tote and posted some things on FB diving gear groups. Sold two items for $50 already. Mailing them out today.
We are trying to paint out some old old paint cans and are bringing up a fence section from barn to paint them on.
happystuff
7-7-20, 12:50pm
We are trying to paint out some old old paint cans and are bringing up a fence section from barn to paint them on.
That's a good idea! Part of today's old shed tear-down included throwing out about a dozen dried cans of paint, but there are just as many with liquid paint still to be dealt with. Maybe I'll paint the shed pieces as they get torn down - LOL.
Yes, someone on here came up with that idea, and I'm sorry I don't remember who to give the credit to, so we are trying it now!
Teacher Terry
7-7-20, 1:38pm
We emptied paint onto newspapers and let them dry out. Then you can throw it away.
I think you were the one where I got that idea, Terry, and thank you! Newspaper would be better and easier. Hmm/
happystuff
7-9-20, 12:15pm
The magic sidewalked worked again - broken snowblower and industrial spool of weed wacker string - GONE!!!
I took 31 items to Goodwill today and 1 book to my daughter's friend. So happy to be getting things out of the house!
Sold a Pampered Chef pie plate on Poshmark yesterday and got it shipped out this morning.
ApatheticNoMore
7-11-20, 2:12pm
took some stuff to the thrift, they are getting too many donations and stopping even taking them later in the day, probably why I allowed myself an ebay purchase recently, ha buy nothing but necessities is basically how I live these days, but I actually felt sorry for the used market for a bit so I gave in to temptation, more excess than usual in the used market. Also suspect we might enter lockdown again, noone has anywhere even where things are much worse, but there is talk, well better than the alternative of hospital overwhelm, but then I won't be able to donate as thrifts will be closed, so donated now.
That makes sense, to donate now. I need to do a thing where if I buy something, something old has to go.
Not having much else to do I completed my decluttering goal for 2020. Today's haul included hokey poetry I wrote when I was younger.
mschrisgo2
7-11-20, 9:52pm
I was able to drop off a smallish box of misc yesterday, culled over the last 4 months. Happy to have it out of my trunk.
There is a Goodwill store in a shopping center close to me. When I drove by last week, there was a HUGE pile of donations in front of the store, when they weren't open. They're only open 9-5 for the time being. I'm not really surprised that people are just dumping their crap off.
A pet carrier we were given, for a huge dog. We have 2 small cats... DH has been on a tear. We’ve cleaned 1/2 the wood shed and the porch. The table and chairs which were in one corner of the yard are gone. And books, lots of books and magazines. Need to cull my clothes, again too.
My daughter and I have been purging her books and dropped of 116 of them (!!!) to a friend who is a principal at a K-8th grade school who said she could pass them on to students. Also, we passed on one book to a friend.
I can't believe we had so many she was done with!
Total for month so far: 148!
Yesterday we took two pairs of skis and a sewing machine and some miscellaneous kitchen stuff to the Goodwill.
A bookstore who took 5 boxes of books last year has agreed to take up to 100. I may finally get outta the book business, but actually I think that will only be about 1/2 of what’s left. We’ll see!
Also, because of covid, we’re eating more formal meals, and keep running out of dishes etc. at or before dinner. Unacceptable. Decided I wanted enamelware. But I’m cheap and DH doesn’t like the idea. So, instead decided we’d use the Bavarian China of my Mom's that my stepmother didn’t break. (She put it thru the dishwasher.) I’ve tried to sell the stuff locally and can’t. I probably could in the nearest big town, but that’s 1 hour+ away, closer to 2 hours.
That will be a big cull, when I get to it, at least 3 boxes? I may put aside the pieces I don’t need, cups, saucers, the serving pieces,etc. and see if I can’t sell those to replacements or haul them to the city instead.
I’m changing my diving style from two tanks on the back to a tank on each side. My knees just can’t take the weight of the two on my back anymore and I can’t get them up the boat ladder.
So I’m posting the harness/air bladder and other associated bits for sale online. Scuba gear sale groups on FB. Should come away with about $350.
iris lilies
7-17-20, 11:19am
In the last week I’ve jettisoned a few things that annoy me. I really like that Marie Kondo idea of “spark joy “I can really relate to that.
Sold a small purse on Poshmark. One less thing in my house and $20 in my bank account.
My husband is finally selling his entire collection of "stuff". He tried to sell it as one lot but they did not offer enough so he is doing Ebay. So far so good. About 30 boxes out the door. Much more scheduled for the next two months. I might even gain a whole room.
Good grief, sweetana, what is he selling?
happystuff
7-20-20, 3:41pm
Donations pickups are starting to resume - 1 full box and 4 reusable bags full of a variety of items. My donation corner is empty - ready to be filled again! LOL
Got rid of a highchair I bought for my granddaughter, a pair of crutches, a luggage cart, and a grill.
I’m pitching all sorts of small stuff to get ready for working from home. Lots of papers and small bits that have added up over the past four months while I’ve been at home while unemployed.
I am going through samples and travel sizes. So far I tossed one lotion I brought home from a hotel that I do not like the scent of and took a hotel shower gel out of the depths of the bathroom closet so I can use it up.
I took 23 flower pots to Goodwill today. New total for month: 171.
Teacher Terry
7-23-20, 10:38pm
Good job everyone!
We are heading for two estate sales this weekend, and I am going to tell myself that for anything that comes into the house, something goes out, or that two things have to go out.
My husband needs a new table saw, and there is a really nice one, so we want to go. Needs as in his is completely shot, and he got rid of his back ups on Craigslist.
Donated two large moving boxes of stuff to Goodwill over the weekend. I'm just happy we had a break in the weather so the Goodwill could accept donations. State law prohibits them being outside when the temperature is 95F or hotter. So the boxes stayed in the car for over a week. I feel so much lighter.
Now husband is coming to terms with having to telework for the rest of the year and probably well into spring, so he bought a desk and monitors so things look more like his office set up. A smaller table/temporary desk will be put on the buy nothing group when the desk arrives.
rosarugosa
7-27-20, 6:20am
A woman on our local FB free page was looking for newspapers and packing materials for moving, so I gave her a bag full or bubble wrap and packing paper as well as a pile of newspapers that DH had just said should be gone from our house, so her timing was perfect.
Went to two estate sales this week. Good to see the impact of a lifetime of belongings, and how folks live. It's inspiring to purge now.
The table saw was rejected (thank goodness, it was absolutely huge.) I acquired a wool sheep Christmas ornament, a Whiting Davis purse gold purse, a Red Rose tea Mary and Joseph statue where his beard makes him look like he is wearing a mask, and 5 drinking glasses that match my collected from the Goodwill set of 70's glasses. I had broken at least two prior so not counting those two.
So I need to purge six items today!
ETA: I forgot I purged two non-relevant phone cords and two mascaras this morning so need to purge two items today.
Teacher Terry
7-27-20, 1:06pm
A rich neighborhood had a community yard sale with the proceeds going to charity. My friend wanted to go so we went for 2 hours. She bought a bunch of stuff. I wasn’t comfortable with the number of people so stood off to the side or stayed in the car. After doing so much purging I wasn’t tempted to buy. If I do then I get rid of the same number of items to stay even.
We have a small cabinet (from the attic), a not working plumber's snake, and the old dining room light going to the dump tomorrow.
We're looking for new stainless and dishes. My current dishes are dinerware and work just fine, but they are also heavy, every now and then -- now. This isn't likely to get better, so I'm on a quest to find something to replace them. In the meantime, determined I'll fill in with my Mom's old china, which I can't seem to sell. I probably could to Replacements or via Poshmark, but haven't gotten there, yet.
My current dishes are dinerware and work just fine, but they are also heavy, every now and then -- now. This isn't likely to get better, so I'm on a quest to find something to replace them. In the meantime, determined I'll fill in with my Mom's old china, which I can't seem to sell. I probably could to Replacements or via Poshmark, but haven't gotten there, yet.
I pretty much use only luncheon plates now for this reason.
iris lilies
7-28-20, 7:49pm
I threw away two pairs of pruners that were dull and didn’t work. Both of them made me mad because I needed them to work at the community garden, and for both trips there I didn’t have functioning pruners.
A new pair came today from Amazon, they are sharp.
We passed down to a friend one of my daughter's old bikes and a jewelry box.
New total for month: 173..
rosarugosa
7-30-20, 5:57am
We passed down to a friend one of my daughter's old bikes and a jewelry box.
New total for month: 173..
Bikes are such a hot commodity right now; I bet the friend was very happy and that probably made you and DD feel twice as good!
ConnieVarricchio
7-31-20, 10:05am
Cleaned up the flower beds
Bikes are such a hot commodity right now; I bet the friend was very happy and that probably made you and DD feel twice as good!
Absolutely! And I just gave my bike to a very appreciative friend. I have a lung condition so need an e-bike now - but I probably won't be able to buy one for a while with the demand what it is right now!
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