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.

we'd need to put up cell towers, but Buffistaville? [link]

Way to go, getting-rid-of-stuff people! I was pretty lazy today, still kind of sore and tired from yesterday (5k was hilly enough to kick my ass), just did what I felt like absolutely had to get done, but that did include taking out the garbage and recycling & cycling the cat's litter, so that is technically stuff out of the house, I guess. I plan to be more productive tomorrow. I love three-day weekends.

Huh, that's the part of the country where I grew up. I kind of miss those hills/mountains (I've been spoiled by the sub-range of the Rockies that I currently live against).

Dag - near me, the Coast Guard is selling a lot of 8 houses and the current bid is $620K. [link]