<p>4 bags to donate and 2 for the garbage finished today. The downside is now H is getting in my business and suggesting things that make no sense to me. “Oh, you’re cleaning out your closet? We could put more shelves at the top!” NO! I am going for a net loss of clothes and am not adding extra storage space!</p>
<p>gouf78, Were I to open up space in the garage I would put the car in there.</p>
<p>Found more old sheets (with Jasmine and Ariel - tells how old they are!) and made a couple of bags out of pillowcases.</p>
<p>Luckily one of my nephews had two sons, so I was able to send the dinosaur twin-bed sheets off to him.</p>
<p>I think I got rid of the Thomas the Tank Engine sheets awhile ago, but then again I haven’t cleaned out the linen closet recently so maybe I didn’t.</p>
<p>I still have the Sandra Boyton animal sheets in my linen closet. We haven’t had a twin bed since we moved to this house fifteen years ago but I keep thinking (hoping) we might need them for a beach rental.</p>
<p>Trying. Will follow along for motivation.</p>
<p>Still have Thomas the Tank Engine blankets. We use them in the basement guest room as secondary blankets. Saving those for when grandkids visit… :)</p>
<p>Ah, still have the whole Harry Potter twin bedding set - with the book version of Harry - before there were any movies. I can’t part with it.</p>
<p>Week two. Filled one large bag for donations and one huge bag of random hangars for recycling.</p>
<p>Good luck Shrinkwrap. To make it easier for myself, I try to do one bag a week and by Sunday. Baby steps :)!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>The hardest part is putting things in the garbage…the batteries, the old ink jet cartridges, limp celery…the batteries have to go the special recycling place, the old cartridges to Staples, the celery into the compost heap, the clothes to Goodwill…the old checkbooks to be shredded…floppy disks?..Tired just thinking about it.</p>
<p>But you don’t have to do it all in one day.</p>
<p>How about the 101 Dalmations beach towel?
About the garbage–my son helped me clean out the garage a while back. I dithered over an old carpet and he said “Let me help you with that!” He picked it up and hauled it out to the garbage…</p>
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<p>Do we all have one area that gets those items that fit into the category of “I hate to part with it just yet”? I suppose that’s garage for most. Sometimes it’s the attic or basement. For me, it’s the bedrooms we rarely use. </p>
<p>My problem is that I also have so many other piles of papers **everywhere<a href=“especially%20in%20the%20basement%20and%20several%20downstairs%20closets”>/b</a> that it’s overwhelming. I mean, how much space does one thin piece of paper take up? The fact that I have THOUSANDS is a little intimidating. For these, I’m determined that bag o’ week will be paper. </p>
<p>Effort from this weekend: 5 bags waiting for the dump. None are paper though. :(</p>
<p>Day 5 of membership in the “Bag a Week Club.” Ran out of garbage bags.</p>
<p>I have discovered that my clutter has fractal characteristics–technically, it is “self-similar” at all scales. This means that as things are clearing up, nothing appears to change. I suppose sooner or later a change will be detectable.</p>
<p>Ran out of garbage bags. HAHA! You DO have permission to purchase and bring more garbage bags into the house! :)</p>
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<p>Here’s a true story about National Geographics. For some reason the older generation (My Mom, rest in peace) thought their collection of National Geographics was worth thousands of dollars or something.</p>
<p>When I moved my Mom out of her house long long ago, we had a garage sale. The big mistake was having my Mom there ‘helping’ during the sale. She kept hanging onto the giant piles of National Geographics thinking the local library would really want that treasure trove. One guy wanted them, but for free. I had to go distract her in the house and then my Sister rushed the magazines into the guy’s trunk.</p>
<p>It’s not Natinal Geographics at my house, it’s Sports Illustrated. We have piles of them and my sons think we need to hang on to them. Another item that will slowly start “disappearing”.</p>
<p>Went from three bins of christmas junk to one this weekend. Also got rid of a bunch of old makeup and WAY out of date OTC meds (dayquil etc).</p>