October 100 Items

[kitten]

I haven't been actually counting, although I should - I'm probably close to 60 items for the month. This past week I've gotten rid of clothes, mostly - things I ordered online that didn't fit, that I wasn't organized enough to return. (I wonder if this pain around getting rid of things I paid good money for is some sort of self-imposed penalty for impulse buys - am I subconsciously punishing myself? OTOH - no, I'm probably just too disorganized and exhausted to contemplate jumping through the hoops to return them)

So lots o'clothes, and tons of papers, cards, letters.

Things it's hard to get rid of:

My hubby's friends just love him to death. He has a friend who sends him elaborate homemade birthday cards with pictures he clips out of magazines and colors - there are characters with dialogue boxes, and it's all about their ongoing in-jokes and stuff. Super cute, but - I don't want to stick these things on the fridge. I mean, Garth is our 35-year old friend, he's not our kid! But the file cabinet (I think of it as the morgue, I never seem to look again at anything that goes in there) is already full to bursting. I don't want to store this stuff, and don't want to display it. But it's sentimental.

Jewelry. I have jewelry I don't like, and I could probably get something for it on eBay. The thought of what it would take to start selling on there again (I've done it before) just exhausts me. So trying to do some sort of cost/benefit analysis there in order to decide. I could just donate it and be done with it.

I have some fossils given me by a former boyfriend. We went on a fossil hunting expedition.He turned out to be a major douche and we parted horribly, but I haven't thrown these fossils out for ten years. They could hold napkins down, I guess, but I somehow don't want them to be something my hubby is seeing and using regularly. Just a violation of propriety there. I don't want to be keeping something sentimental from this guy. But a fossil! It's millions of years old! Can't throw it away!

I haven't thrown out a cat scratcher thing that the cat refuses to play with. I need to.

We live in an apartment with a super tiny freezer. No room even for an ice tray (hubby is on Jenny Craig, and his frozen food takes up all the room in there). So we went out and got a humongous ice maker. I haven't used it yet. It's taking up all the room on our tiny kitchen table. Don't have a clue what to do with it. And we still don't have ice!

Here's to the inspiration I get from this thread every day! I'm confident that my stumbling blocks will be overcome soon. Thanks for your support!
Kitten

[fidgiegirl]

Bastelmutti, that's quite a bit of stuff! It'll be a challenge in and of itself.

kitten, nice to see you! It's hard to part with those weird items. Would a local school like the fossil? I also vote to just get rid of the jewelry. I alternate between enjoying and hating eBay, so I hear ya there. Right now I'm in an enjoying moment, but in a few weeks, might hate it again. If you hate, just donate! See, it rhymes!

[jsmadge]

Kitten, you might want to try selling on ebay through a seller. I did that with a ton of stuff a few years ago, and it was worth sacrificing the commission (usually 25-40%). I found my seller by going on ebay and searching for a reseller in my area.

For the cards, can you store them in an unused piece of luggage or box under a sofa or bed? They sound like worth keeping. Or take pictures of them and keep the digital files, tossing the originals.

Donate the fossils or put them in the garden. Don't carry extra baggage

[Bastelmutti]

Bastelmutti, that's quite a bit of stuff! It'll be a challenge in and of itself.

Embarrassingly, my DH thinks we already have more than 10 bags waiting in the basement. And I still need to go through books and jewelry again. I have not completely developed my let-it-go muscle, although I'm better than I used to be. Sentimental things just get me. Or things like foreign-language books I can't easily replace. But if I haven't cracked them in 10 yrs.? As I said, working on it!

The rest of you are doing a great job!

[fidgiegirl]

I have been waiting for tomorrow's pickup to total up the rest of the items.

5 items shipping on eBay
2 bike pumps
3 knives
1 pair pants
1 set napkin rings
1 vintage plate
1 frame
1 butter knife
1 measuring spoon
1 set wood pegs
1 set travel locks
1 paperback
1 jacket
2 cloth bags
2 Mexican embossed items
1 blazer
1 women's shirt
1 jar
1 bike seat
1 set C batteries
1 set greeting cards
2 pr vintage skis
1 pr sandals
1 set solar yard lights

TOTAL = 111 YEAH!!!!!!!!! I knew we would reach 100 items!!!! Thanks all for playing!!!!!!

[Tradd]

Good job, Fidgie!

I listed an expensive book on Amazon today. Put aside a bunch of books to donate to library. Pitched some stuff that no one else would want.