Purge January 2016----5 items a day.....

[Float On]

I'm not going to count this year but I will post when I do an area. Friday it was my office at church, shredded 1999, moved 2012 from my tall office file cabinet to the long term room where it waits for shredding. Moved 2015 from my desk drawer to the cabinet and made my 2016 file folders. Cleaned out the drawers of odds and ends, ended up filling a small bag with office supply things for the thrift shop and tossed another bags worth (some shredded, some recycled, some just trash). My office is all clean, shiny, and organized.

[kib]

I'm doing a little shimmy in the wrong direction, outfitting a van. But being mindful of my tendency to indulge a shopping jones for no real reason is keeping me 'shopping' in my own house for now, at least.

[rosarugosa]

Completed my annual culling of the paper files for 2016, & DH just has to finish up with the shredding. One box of miscellaneous is ready for the Salvation Army & I made a good start on another.

[danna]

Jan 10
---1 box of tea to Dd, for some reason I had too duplicates and would not get it used. She was pleased to have it.
---3 bag of fudge out of the freezer....decision was that it was garbage in the can or in me.
---1 small piece of carpet (not even sure were it came from) and not big enough to do anything with.
---1 very old odd smelling, dried up container of foot cream...garbage
Total to date 52

[JaneV2.0]

Shredded 2012 bills, continued to add to pile for thrift store, bagged cardboard to save and/or recycle.

[Greg44]

3 Big bags of clothes, old blender, large stuff dog, misc items. dropped off at St. Vincent de Paul. We keep a large box in the garage for "donations" so everyone knows that when something is no longer wanted, doesn't fit, etc. etc. it goes in "the box".

My father just turned 80 and has been "unloading" miscellaneous possessions - nice gesture, but our house is already full. Need to learn how to respectfully decline these "gifts". *sigh*

[kib]

Does anyone have a problem with wood? I just can't seem to part with all these 5-10" bits and pieces, and the long boards - project extras, mostly - are even worse, they don't really fit anywhere and create major cluttery obstacles. I'll admit it's great to fish around and find something precisely the right size, especially compared with having to go to the hardware store, but the woodpile is starting to outweigh the shed.

[kib]

My father just turned 80 and has been "unloading" miscellaneous possessions - nice gesture, but our house is already full. Need to learn how to respectfully decline these "gifts". *sigh*

My dad just turned 91 and has decided that the best form of love he can give is mailing me a big box of remainder books from the Daedalus catalog every few months, typically about astrophysics or ancient Egypt or the origin of slang that's been out of fashion for 50 years. I've decided to accept it as the love it's intended to be, and pass it directly to Goodwill. (Daedalus refuses to accept any more returns from me).

[Ultralight]

My dad just turned 91 and has decided that the best form of love he can give is mailing me a big box of remainder books from the Daedalus catalog every few months, typically about astrophysics or ancient Egypt or the origin of slang that's been out of fashion for 50 years. I've decided to accept it as the love it's intended to be, and pass it directly to Goodwill. (Daedalus refuses to accept any more returns from me).

Nice!

[Williamsmith]

I had a wood shop in my basement and when preparing to put the house up for sale, I needed to sell off my tools, seal the concrete block walls with a moisture barrier, just get rid of lots of stuff......when I thought I was pretty much done there was this huge box of wood remnants of all different sizes sitting in the room. I had no idea what to do with it. Then I remembered a friend who heated his house with an outdoor wood furnace. Problem solved.