@TS0104 we always take the toiletries at hotels but not for ourselves. Our local homeless shelter takes them as donations. They put together toiletry kits and are always looking for these. Dh travels a lot for work so we just keep a bag at home and put them all in there for donation.
I had Purple Heart come today for a bunch of stuff. I texted my neighbor to let her know they were coming today and she brought over an additional bag. The one thing I’m looking forward to with S19 about to leave for his freshman year, is to get in to his room and declutter. He has no attachment to anything but his room is such a mess I need to wait until he leaves.
I am going through the music CDs in my car and throwing many out. Last night, I went through all of my canvas bags. I made a huge bag of bags that I am throwing out. Those things must multiple on their own!
Just organized and listed items I’m taking to consignment shop early next week. Put together a small donation pile including a window fan and couple of shirts. Dogs are helping me drop that off in the morning.
So H managed to let me get rid of 5 suitcases under the basement stairs. He brought them with him when we married 37 years ago. Covered with 30 years of dust. Told him they went to Goodwill, but they had non-working zippers, broken clasps, etc, so went into my office dumpster. Last night I left his bike near a dumpster that many people cruise to find things. He rode it 3 times in 35 years so he decided it wasn’t worth paying money to replace tires and tune up. (S2 had ridden it a bit, but needs $200+ to fix). It was gone this morning when I went by.
Basement still a sorry mess, but I passed the box of school supplies I’ve collected over the last year off to a friend who can get them to kids who need them. So I can honestly state that one box of stuff is out of the house.
Had to laugh a few weeks back. A lady at work was asked to tutor someone’s foster child in algebra and was commenting she’d have to find a way to refresh her own knowledge cause it was years since she’d done algebra. I’d come across the huge GED study book of bought 12-13 years ago (long story) when I was dejunking and it was in a box of stuff to go to recycling. She was thrilled to get it. Of course my husband is pleased with himself cause he was the one that had baulked at me throwing it away a while back.
Sounds like my H. He has a Popeye toy that he thinks is worth $1000. I think not; he played with it as a kid and it’s used. So, I told him to sell it because when he dies the kids will throw it out.
Oh god. Mr. brought home a pile of old J. Med. Chem… I asked if he ran out of space in the recycling bin at work… no, he wants these home in his home office!!! Egads. This stuff is easily available on the web… At least I weeded out some duplicates and chucked some random issues of JACS!!! While I was tidying up the library, I tossed a bunch of paperbacks and a box of little kid’s tees that she saved up for no apparent reason. She has not touched them in 10 years… off they went.
I was helping DD clean out her room before she leaves for freshman year of college. We were making great progress - being very unsentimental and pitching lots of old stuff! She asked it it was hard for me and it wasn’t so we kept working. Then she was going to throw away the box that her birthday present from BF came in. I knew he had ordered something and that it hadn’t arrived by her bday so she told me what it was -a bracelet inscribed on the inside with “off she goes to change the world” and on the outside our family home latitude and longetude coordinates. That’s when I cried. And she got misty.
Half of tomorrow’s consignment load is in the car, still need to get the box of handbags out the door. Appointment is tomorrow, and what the shop can’t take will be happily donated!
My post got truncated; only the link posted. I was going to say that I completely understand the writer’s feelings. Yes, the kids do not want our “treasures.” I am so glad that the sentimental items we inherited from my husband’s folks are very tiny. No furniture, no china, no silver, no artworks. We have not amassed any art or bulky valuables either, and we have trimmed our belongings and keep on trimming.
