A successful day, msbelle!

We are at an age with mac that toys do not get replaced with other toys so that is a help. On my end, I used to have 4-5 bags of clothes to store of out of season clothes, now I have 2. But it goes in waves. It's like I cannot see the next round of things I do not need and should get rid of until this other stuff is out of the way. And then I wonder how I how all the previous stuff in my house at one point.

Having plenty of storage space and no car means there's no point in looking at my stuff holistically. I spent 20 minutes going through two drawers and had a bag of clothes to go. That plus a bag of books I had pulled out a while ago, and that's all I can carry! There is probably plenty of stuff to get rid of in the closets. Maybe I'll do some tomorrow.

And the lid of the garbage bin can no longer be closed. I wish dumpster rental wasn't so expensive. It's not big stuff I can have people come over and haul away, it's small stuff that needs to be containerized--and sorted into recycle, garbage, donate. My standards for garbage have sunk very far, but it still all has to be physically managed. Oh, beloved, you and your "but it could be useful/isn't it cool?" habits in thrift stores.

My current push to clear out more is two-fold. 1) potentially a second car in a year. 2) probably live in 1/3 to 1/2 the space in 3-4 years.

It is very depressing how many cubic feet of stuff I pull out of this house and how little difference it seems to make. But there are differences: I can get to corners of the house I couldn't get to before, I can see what's under other stuff, but damn, so much left to do.

Oh my Jesus I cannot tell you the metric shit ton of crap we moved out of my dad's house this weekend. we made like 5 or 6 trips to goodwill, filled most of a 10x20 storage unit and then gave up and started piling it by the curb. Some of which went away (6 nice dining room chairs, a few desks and things) and the rest is piled up in Mt. Garbage and will be for a while because the village only does special pickups in Thursdays. So, enjoy that, neighbors, especially nice lady next door who's trying to sell her house. We did cover the worst of it with a tarp and taped notes to it explaining.

Every so often my mother apologizes/tries to do something about the attic, to which I tell her not to worry because when she dies, I'm just going to get a dumpster and some movers.

Also, it occurs to me I've bought more stuff this weekend then I brought to the Goodwill, so maybe I should try to make a second trip!

I'm now in the midst of getting my office moved. I've been in the back house with the business for 8 years now. I have just filled half of our recycling bin with shredded documents that are more than 10 years old that I don't need any more.

I'm in denial right now about the amount of work that needs be done.

I'm currently taking a break from shredding since the shredder overheated.

the shredder overheated.

Been there.

I stand with all of my Buffista de-cluttering comrades. We are going to go through the office tomorrow, which is beginning to look like a Hoarders episode. It's going to be a LOOOONG process.