puzzles galore!

today I gave a bag of floor puzzles of animals to a couple of my favorite small people at church. can't believe they were buried in our garage but happy they have a new home.

buried treasure

the water leak also meant moving boxes in the garage away from the wall. holy cow! why had we saved all this stuff????  I took 2 bags and 2 boxes to the thrift store today - board games, puzzles, glassware, a chafing dish (?), and more. woohoo!

flower pots

so we have a leak in the window. and the wall is wet. so we're cleaning out that side of the garage and ripping off siding and tearing down the potting shed and....

which left us with an overabundance of flower pots. posted on freecycle and our nextdoor site and, boom! gone!!!!! started with about 50 and here's all that's left (except that more have vanished and now there are only 3):

Here I go again

We did a lot of purging last year but I didn't keep track; this year, I'm curious. Every time we watch Hoarders I feel like pulling up a dumpster and just tipping the house into it (but it's not really even close to that bad) except that the huge majority of our "clutter" is something that someone else could use. Better that they use it than it sit around my garage. Right before Christmas I took 2 bags to Goodwill, 1 bag to Friends of the Library, and 5 (!!!) bags to Turnabout Thrift Shop. Woohoooo!

I'm hoping to actually keep track this year, mostly to keep me motivated - sort of like a decluttering FitBit.

Bag of books off to the library!

new year, new cleanup

starting the year off right. 1 bag of books off to Friends of the Kensington Library. 1 bag of fancy towels and linens in the car for Turnabout Thrift Shop. 2 bags of artsy/craftsy stuff in the car for Creative Re-use. Yay!

summer purge...

took an overflowing box of old tax papers and financial stuff to the shredders. plus a box full of old hard drives - 16 to be exact. what????  all shredded and gone. yay!
also took yet another bag of book to the friends of the library. how did we get so many books?
started on the desk - creative reuse will get a bonanza of greeting cards!

music to my ears...

finally tackled the boxes of music in the basement.... 
- 2 bags of vocal music to son's former voice teacher
- 1 bag of piano music to son's former piano teacher
- 1 bag of miscellaneous choir stuff off to church

also 1 huge bag of books heading off to Friends of the Library
and 6 huge bags of clothing, etc. off to CARH.

woohoo!