Postby Harmony » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:32 pm
I'm still plugging away around here. Nothing as big as a truck, though!
One book in the bin to donate. Old old book, not good enough for the library sale room, but good enough for donate place. I read it first, old classic.
Big armfull of product books as big as phone books and stack of catalogs from the office in recycle. Still finding things in the office.
Was pleased Mon morning the truck took my recycling which had huge big cardboard folded up in there, but not small enough to get the top back down. We're supposed to cut into smaller sizes, but they took it.
Tuesday I took almost full carton of pop in cans sitting in corner of kitchen and got rid of. It was diet we'd gotten for one helper who drank it...but then he quit and it sat here till was really old and we'd read that diet drinks when old turn into something else and we don't do diet anything here...so I drained every can and crushed and put in the recycle bag. Nice to have that corner back.
Since no one has posted yet I will add to this:
Tackled the hall closet. It is an 8' long closet with just a little space to hang jackets and the rest is shelves, with 4 bifold doors. I pretty much filled up the donate bin. Box of horrid looking "take these angels to your shut-ins", couple more toys, remote control car, big heat lamp doesn't fit any of our fixtures. The rest of the work was consolidating, boxing, and lots of down on hands and knees wiping walls, baseboards, floors, etc. Can't do that in a space that's overstuffed. Looks wonderful now! I have 3 big cardboard boxes to throw away too.
Adding my latest: yesterday I took the bin to GW. There is one thing about putting things aside to give away, but totally better when it actually LEAVES the house! At least 3 times a day I stand in front of that cupboard and look at the space and focus on the empty spots there. It almost feels like the house is more free, airier, if that makes any sense. I don't quite understand it since none of this stuff was sitting around where I could see it all the time; it was all up on shelves, just 1 thing I can think of actually out in view, so I don't know why it's helpful for me to do this, but it is. I was standing there tonight thinking, "there's only 2 of us, we shouldn't have this much stuff around here".
Tonight DH cut up huge box and we got all the recycling out for tomorrow's pickup. I have a comforter that got lumpy and nothing I did de-lumped it, so that's out too. That was a hard one because it wasn't old, but I tried everything to smooth out the lumps... I'll bet it's been sitting here unused 7 years.