The "Bag A Week" Club
abasket
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The NY resolution thread has many saying they have a goal of purging a bag a week in 2014. Great idea - donate stuff or trash stuff.Thought it would be great to keep each other on track to share what cracks, crevices, drawers and corners of the basement and attic we conquer as we go through the weeks and share what we are tossing - for motivation, for inspiration and for ideas on areas we can all reduce.
Are you in??!
This morning I started with a small bag - I have a small desk area in the kitchen and purged MANY old coupons, warranty info that has expired, receipts galore and other paper junk.
Let the purging begin!!!!
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This thread gives me hope - brilliant idea, abasket.
I am on vacation but promise to start next week
Do you find that the longer the "stuff" sits there, the more you don't even notice it??
ETA: Shows how much I don't notice it, there are FIVE bags, not three. :eek:
From experience, the "easy" stuff will be old, frayed clothes that have been washed too many times or rejected by my kids. The harder stuff will take lots of time and concentration: papers and books. As a former teacher, I have a really hard time tossing pages that could be used in a lesson or has great memories.
I need helpful hints for those. What's that one I've heard before: something like "if you touch it three times, but never use it with the past year - time to toss." And in that TV show about hoarders, they were told to put things in three piles: toss/save/the maybe pile. My problem is that "maybe pile" overwhelms me. If anyone can share how to effectively purge, please share.
I think that she should join to trim her closets.
And, certainly, our high school senior son could join to purge the recreational items and clothing he's outgrown.
Any suggestions for who would take VCR tapes?
This thread will motivate me to keep on track
Started before reading this thread with intention to clean up the house.
The first box is all used medicines. It turns out, we have at least three cabinet full of all old meds - some are over 15 years old.
The dilemma I have is about those Chinese herb supplements. One of the unopened boxes has a $49.50 price label on it.
(As far as VHS, I'm embarrassed to say I through a lot out; I surely could have found some place to donate...)
Got my bags started and some are even going into the trash:
-old batteries going to Fire station for recycling
-old medicines going to Fire station for recycling
-random cords, chargers that I have no clue what they belong to, going to Best Buy for recyling
-some of Goskids' MP3, other electronics going to Staples to see if I can get a few $$
-styrofoam peanuts from Xmas gifts going to UPS store for recycling
-a whole box of Xmas decorations (that, when putting out in December, I just decided
they were not as beautiful or necessary as I thought) going to Goodwill.
not to mention basic trash from Christmas. And, does anyone else have shoe boxes full of old photo Christmas cards? Hate to part with the memories, but seriously, not even sure who some of them are!
Clean closets in 2014--yes!
I went yesterday and those poor employees were overwhelmed with donations. They were blocking every aisle in donation center.