Part of a bag gone: There was a bunch of Pyrex from MIL’s house that I finally culled through. Four large heavy pieces heading out the door.
OMG @HouseChatte not Pyrex! I have a bit of an obsession with it, lol. If I lived close (I don’t even know if I do or not) I’d be over to take it off your hands. Which kind of defeats the purpose of the thread, but whatever :))
Correction - Mr. saved the 1999 VoiceStream-branded Nokia phone (disposed of the battery). It will be something to puzzle future generations with! 
It goes into the “treasure box” with things like his old 8 mm camera and the first gen iPod.
I tossed a whole bunch of manuals from things we no longer own (or know how to operate with our eyes closed).
Looks like we’ve been slacking lately… no posts for 10 days.
Youngest is moving out in the next couple of days, and it prompted me to go through some of the things that have been sitting in piles since he moved home from college in May. Only 2 bags so far, but I’m expecting many more in early 2019.
Oh we have been busy. Moving kid to her new place and helping her with furniture shopping. Got rid of her old bed in the process. Mr. donated it to the house cleaners hired by kiddo’s roommate.
D2 and I filled seven or eight small plastic bags with clothing to donate. I’ve taken three paper grocery bags filled with books to the public library in the past few weeks.
Put more than one bag full of paper into the recycling bin–old notes and schoolwork that one of the adult children finally went through. Saved a few projects for now, but in a smaller, lighter box. Also looked through a bunch of carefully packed up decorative items and souvenir type things that were easy to say goodbye to now that a few years have passed. In fact, she was quite puzzled that she had ever bothered to pack them away in the attic. Little by little, we are getting a bit more organized.
donated a bag of old clothes from my daughter’s apartment that had been sitting there for a year - gathered some holiday stuff I don’t want into a bag for the next rummage sale.
I cleaned out a kitchen junk drawer…and most everything went into the trash…including 6 disposable cameras dated 2005. I’m sure the pictures were lovely…but I wasn’t going to pay for them to get developed to then be put in the shoeboxes under my bed. So…they are gone.
Found seven old pairs of glasses…kept one pair I can use just in case, and the rest…off to the Lions Club.
Best of all. I cleaned off the entire dining room table. Tossed a LOT of stuff, mostly palate stuff. Moved my laptop to the kitchen desk area. That also had to be purged.
So I’m back in for the bag a week. Since I volunteer at a charity thrift store weekly, I can take my bag there.
Have two bags to go out. Purging ornaments big time. Coerced D and S into taking what they wanted of their childhood ornaments. But my big news is that H finally threw out the two large bags of tomatoes from our 2016 garden that I told him at the time that we would never use. Small, in the skin tomatoes. I patiently waited for this day.
I will be back big time in January when the remaining two kids are gone. I’ll be sad and bored and ready to dive back in. Still have a lot of work to do in the basement- sorting and shredding.
For some reason DH felt inspired to go through his polo/tennis shirts and get rid of about eight of them. Most were stretched out of shape. A few were reasonable but too small for him. He thought our sons might want them. To me, there was no way on earth I was going to bother to send one or two shirts a thousand miles away. They all went to Goodwill, along with some things of my own I’ve been collecting for a few months. I got rid of about half a dozen belts that I haven’t worn in 20 years.
When it’s warmer out, I plan to purge the basement and move some things from our garage to the basement.
DH bought a recumbent bike and needed basement space for it. One thing led to another and he completely cleaned out one of the basement closets. 3 bags of trash and 4 donations over 2 days- Then things just lying around that people do use went in the closet. Nice clean basement area now.
It took about 40 minutes for a stack of old jeans to disappear after I left them in our alley with a sign “Free work pants.” Beats driving to Goodwill!
Our Goodwill was a ZOO yesterday! They had to install a bunch of signs routing the cars coming in with donations. Two more days to get a tax writeoff… we don’t deduct anything we give to Goodwill. Too much work for not a whole lot of return.
@katliamom - fabulous! This remind me… I need to go through Mr.'s yardwork pants and toss the ugly swamp creature/paint contractor ones, then retire the work pants that have seen better days to yard work. If you see a dude in Hugo Boss pants and a Burberry polo pulling weeds or hauling stumps, that’s my Mr!
I CANNOT wait to start back in in January! Every time I put away stuff these past couple of weeks I am being reminded of drawers and such that are crying out for a cleaning - after this coming week I’ll be on top of it!!
I purged some leftover-too-long soup from the fridge this afternoon.
My son is moving into a new apartment. His stuff has been shoved into random areas of our house for months, so he could take it with him. Well, it turns out he doesn’t need much.
Now I’ve got to figure out what to do with all this cra… I mean stuff.
In seventh heaven today!!! Mr. gave the TV he planned to install in our MB to the kiddos. Kiddo and her BF already hooked it up last night and enjoyed very it much. It was collecting dust in the bedroom… 'cause ugly swamp creatures are not welcome in my sanctuary, plus we already have Cramer’s ugly mug yelling at us from the bathroom TV every morning. Lol. The fewer TVs we have the better.