<p>Hah! I made some of H’s things disappear since he is not around to help me pack. Packer’s privilege!</p>
<p>Textbooks should go, and go soon.</p>
<p>Wow! Great link MomCat2! I don’t need to chuck the past-the-date aspirin.</p>
<p>Moving truck ETA Tuesday. Will I be able to purge those files further as I open the boxes? Do hope so!</p>
<p>grennwitch, when I cleared Mom’s and Grandma’s house, I found my old grade school records, too! I wouldn’t have saved them, but she did. I pitched them, but saved my grandma’s college teaching certificate. She was a certified teacher when she was 16. My grandkids (should I ever have any) won’t get my piece of history, but it wasn’t interesting.</p>
<p>DD purged a lot of her old HS notebooks. She had nicely boxed them when she left for college, but now that she is in grad school, she could finally let them go. DS purged a FEW of his books, got $50 at the used book store and I hauled the ones they wouldn’t take to the library for their sale. Also took the first few old first year piano series books. They hadn’t been used for …oh 16 years? </p>
<p>Mom and Grandma’s house was tidy looking but there was sure a lot of old worthless stuff (a la my report cards) tucked away. I am about to start scanning the last box of paper stuff we brought down (over a year ago) . Scanner is worth its weight in gold. Scan anything, send hard copy on to cousin or trash and it is both saved and de-cluttered!</p>
<p>I am not up to a bag a week, but I certainly stopped the inflow and toss broken stuff faster so that net, we are getting it done. I also have a eye on downsizing and moving. DD took a desk, chair and the patio set to her new house. We are NOT replacing them, got a small side table thing so DH and I can have drinks on the patio, but I don’t think we will need the big glass set for parties. We haven’t had one since about hs graduation (both kids are out of college). </p>
<p>Just found this thread! I am pretty good about giving old/unworn clothing to Goodwill, but we have a lot of BOOKS and paper stuff. </p>
<p>I did put the mementos that were in ratty old shoeboxes into Sterilite plastic containers, but we still have the stuff. Old handmade cards from the kids, school programs, letters from old friends far away. I appreciate these things more, the older I get. I hope I still have all my marbles 10 years from now, when I think I’ll be ready to just pitch everything. But some of it is so sweet…</p>
<p>At least we’re not paying rent on a storage container of unused stuff. Yay us. =D> </p>
<p>On someone’s advice here I purged my spices!</p>
<p>Post 1221-- You DEFINITELY need to chuck past date aspirin! It degrades big time, is cheap and don’t keep it!
This from your friendly neighborhood pharmacist.</p>
<p>^what gouf said. If it smells vinegary, discard it. It can potentially cause stomach irritation. </p>
<p>I help out in our HS guidance office a couple of times a month and today I went through the bookshelf of college/test prep/career books and chucked any that were from before 2010, except timeless classics like “Chicken Soup for the College Soul” (yes, that exists, hadn’t seen it). We got rid of 2/3 of the shelf, a good 3 garbage bags (to be recycled). </p>
<p>Friend of mine has had her mom’s house to clean out for the past 4 years. Never was able to move her brother to get rid of anything but finally a month or so ago he started chucking stuff (her house as well as his own). It was like the dam broke. She showed me pix–it’s totally cleared, fixed up and ready to sell. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen the pix.</p>
<p>Has the house been sitting off the market for 4 years waiting for them to clean it out? That’s one expensive storage unit.</p>
<p>That would be true if the prices had held–right now they are going back up.</p>
<p>My purging craze has slowed as I’m trying to get things done before I have surgery in a few weeks. I don’t think I’ll be up to doing a bag a week for a while after surgery but I did make good progress and I’ll pick it back up in January, I think. </p>
<p>Dropped a bag of miscellany off to Goodwill – an old soap dish, a silly little glass vase, an old warm up jacket, a holder for CDs, and few old shirts. I love that Goodwill takes just about anything. </p>
<p>Ditto here. Mr B unloaded more stuff at Goodwill today. </p>
<p>No bags or boxes to goodwill lately but moved S to a new job/apartment/city so lots of furniture, clothes, etc. that were in a holding pattern have now reached their new destination. The garage will now hold two cars again! Yay.</p>
<p>You put cars in the garage? Huh. Radical idea. Maybe this winter we’ll get to do the same thing. Maybe not.</p>
<p>3 car garage, with three cars parked in it. 
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<p>^^Commendable!!</p>
<p>Barnard Mom happy surgery (?) but will so look forward to your return
I have now completed 10 months of 3 things a day and have not missed a single item. I now am a bag or 2 a week. My GF put her house on the market yesteday and so has been on a roll. She said that, as I still have a family (she is recently widowed) that there are things that still matter such as more bedding, tableclothes and such that will easily leave later.
I am still purging but got her point as we have loads and loads of storage but I only want to have those things left that we actually use.</p>
<p>BB, wow! Good job. Our third bay has 4 bikes, a wheelbarrow of firewood, and a few leftover furniture pieces. Very happy to know I won’t be shoveling and scraping snow off my car before work each morning this winter.</p>