August Purge

[catherine]

Tying in to Klunik’s topic, I fear the buildup of holiday decor. Our house is on the Christmas house tour this year and they sell 450 tickets. So we should have at least 300 people through our house in an afternoon. I made inquiry as to how many people would come before I planned to really ramp up decor.

I was so disappointed with the small number that came through our garden in the June garden tour, it was only about 70 people. And whileit was nice to have that event force us to mulch and clean every flower bed we have, that was a whole lot of work for just 70 people.

And then there are the Christmas tablescapes that I do every year which is another fundraiser here in town. I collect a tub full of linens for that, and the dishes are exchanged every year for something new. That isn’t really hard because I need only 4 to 6 dishes that carry out the theme, and then I pair those theme dishes with plain white, red or green and carry out the theme with doo-dahs that can be jettisoned. I love the tablescape event! and Each year we are supposed to come up with a new theme which I love, but I do not want to collect sets of dishes for this thing.

Gosh that sounds like a fun event! So festive! For the dishes do you ever go to your local second hand shop and pick up stuff that you don't mind donating back later? When DH gave me a 70th birthday, he went to our local Habitat for Humanity resale store and bought some beautiful dishes for the table settings for dirt cheap and then we simply donated them back, since I have NO room for extra dishes.

[iris lilies]

Yes! All the time although I tend to get my “ theme” dishes from eBay because they are specialized.

My Goodwill store while it is wonderful and has a great selection of holiday items at the appropriate time, the thematic dishes are a never ending parade of snowmen and snowmen and more snowmen. But yes, I got all of my basics there, the red and the green and the white dishes. And they weren’t even necessarily cheaper than buying new but they were exactly what I wanted, I saved postage, and kept things out of the landfill.

This year’s theme for my table is “ Have a Merry Cherry Christmas” . These salad plate size dishes will sit on top of red or green dinner plates and there will be lots of greenery on the table, decorated with fake cherries, also picked up at the thrift store. I’m using a table runner polkadot that I sewed last year for the “Christmas in Paris “tablescape so I’m thrilled to be able to use that thing two years.

last year, I got the theme dishes at Goodwill. they had lovely pink rims and a dumb design in the center, but I just covered up the center with another small plate.

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[NewGig]

Decided to change how I store my planner, tools, & stickers. Recently I bought new stickers, 1/2 are gifts, the rest are mine. I came up with new storage spot & I'll can sell the old containers at the antiques store.

I have 3. 1 - has rulers/planner, 2- stickers, 3- mail.

I'm in the midst of culling stickers to get most of them in small envelopes.

[ToomuchStuff]

Putting in something early. Tomorrow, a gal I worked with for decades, is coming to see me. As long as there is no damage (bought, got delivered, right before all my cancer stuff, never got installed), her tv died, so I am sending them my 75" as it doesn't appear that I am going to be able to use it anytime soon. (it's a commercial tv, not a residential model and I got it for a very good price)

She may soon be helping me get the house ready to sell, if I get bad news. She has been cleaning houses, working at my restaurant and going to school. Work bought her an older laptop, to replace hers that died (almost an identical one, Macbook), I sent her one of my laser printers for school stuff.
Also planning on sending her the Roku I bought for it, as a commercial tv, is more of a tv, then a smart tv.

Sitting around with the cancer, the TV is one thing I do get to watch. Makes me realize how little I enjoy it, or the stuff on it. DVD's look more then fine on my $200 55? inch tv, or the 32" in my bedroom.

[NewGig]

Major filing cabinet purge this morning. I have almost a full box of papers to take to the shredder at Staples.

[Tradd]

Putting in something early. Tomorrow, a gal I worked with for decades, is coming to see me. As long as there is no damage (bought, got delivered, right before all my cancer stuff, never got installed), her tv died, so I am sending them my 75" as it doesn't appear that I am going to be able to use it anytime soon. (it's a commercial tv, not a residential model and I got it for a very good price)

She may soon be helping me get the house ready to sell, if I get bad news. She has been cleaning houses, working at my restaurant and going to school. Work bought her an older laptop, to replace hers that died (almost an identical one, Macbook), I sent her one of my laser printers for school stuff.
Also planning on sending her the Roku I bought for it, as a commercial tv, is more of a tv, then a smart tv.

Sitting around with the cancer, the TV is one thing I do get to watch. Makes me realize how little I enjoy it, or the stuff on it. DVD's look more then fine on my $200 55? inch tv, or the 32" in my bedroom.

A 75” TV is a BIG one! I didn’t have a TV for more than a decade, but got once in 2016 to see the Olympics. Got rid of it a couple of years ago. I much prefer the radio, books, music. I either have local radio going, BBC, or streaming music. Apple Music did up a Classical app maybe two years ago. There is a Classical station, straight music, that is very nice.

Glad you were able to get rid of teh TV.

[Klunick]

A 75” TV is a BIG one! I didn’t have a TV for more than a decade, but got once in 2016 to see the Olympics. Got rid of it a couple of years ago. I much prefer the radio, books, music. I either have local radio going, BBC, or streaming music. Apple Music did up a Classical app maybe two years ago. There is a Classical station, straight music, that is very nice.

Glad you were able to get rid of teh TV.

Our entire TV stand is 80 inches long so I can't imagine what a 75 inch TV would look like on it. Ours is 53 inches I believe and that seems plenty big.

[ToomuchStuff]

It was a $500 commercial tv (current price, close to $1100, Amazon special). I only had one wall that would fit, and those in my family, that it might fit a wall, already had a large one there.

Then her husband wants my old POS truck, as he is doing remodeling for a living now, and wants a beater to do the deconstruction/haul away stuff. Great for that, just have to find time to get the title from the other house. A couple things down now. (was interested in some other stuff, but so far everything else I know about has heirs for it)
I told him about all the tools I have, so told him to get a list as I expect to be having a garage/estate sale.

[rosarugosa]

I'm putting together a bag for one of the local "boutique" thrift stores. I've decluttered a few decorative items that I've had for years from my bureau. They are pretty things, but the bureau looks less cluttered and much nicer without them. There are definitely some other areas of my home that need some judicious editing to keep it from looking like a nice gift shop.

[happystuff]

Last child is moving out. So sad and already lonely, but happy and proud and excited for them... and sad and lonely...

The purging/decluttering going on is totally AMAZING! Next donation pickup is going to be huge!!!!

Still going to take a couple days for whatever "everything going" and "everything staying" will be, but also finding out that some remnants are already joining the sibling's left behind belongings. Need to get all their "stuff" in one room and work on FINALLY having an official guest bedroom! lol.

sigh... life goes on.