Didn’t get much done last week cause I got an awful tummy bug that wiped me out for several days. But today we took several more lots of cardboard and a couple of bags of magazines to recycling plus a couple of big black bags of trash to my office dumpster and one in our bin.
Most of the cardboard and stuff that had been accumulating in the garage is gone now (well that I can see - there may be some hidden under other stuff) but there is still a mountain of stuff. H thought one box had cardboard in it but when I picked it up it had an old scanner. I said we need to Chuck it. He said it is still good so I said then we should donate it but he thinks we can use it (it has been in the garage for years). This is where I’m going to have problems - we still have a microwave in the garage that we bought in England and took to Egypt but had to bring with us to the US because Egypt had really odd rules about any appliances or electronics you brought in. I wanted to get rid of it when we got to the US (can’t use here) but he wouldn’t cause we paid “good money” for it. We moved back in 1988!
Anyway he somewhat grumpilly said we we should just get a dumpster and throw everything out. So I told him I AM renting a dumpster this summer but that the more we can get out of the house for free before I get it the cheaper it will be cause we have to pay each time we empty it. And that I had already called the city waste department to see if we can rent one from them even though we are outside of city limits (yes - just have to set up an account with a credit card as we don’t have a utility account and pay a fuel surcharge as we are out of city limits). Told him I was determined to get this cleaned up and how after my accident last year it was so hard to move around the house with crutches and the knee scooter and that if (when really) he ends up with a wheelchair remember how hard it was for his dad to move round the house cause of his Mom’s hoarding. He didn’t say too much after thst.
I had been wondering how I was going to broach the subject of the roll off dumpster I had been looking into before he inadvertently gave me that opening 
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Now to figure out how I’m physically going to get it done.