@ClassicMom98 - I hear you on the prednisone enhancement of home organization! 
When I was on that for a few days (once a month for 6 months) - I would sometimes stay up all night cleaning and organizing. Haha no way that was happening in an āunenhancedā state!
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Sigh. I love prednisone. Maybe Iāll get stung by a yellow jacket again just to experience that.
[JOKE]
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lol. I used to say Iād go roll around in poison Ivy just to be able to get some. I completely understand!
lol, and I am the poster child for too much prednisone, as in steroid induced osteoporosis. But thatās because I lost the Covid 19 lottery.
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I am sorry. And while I like to joke about being on prednisone, it is a serious drug and not a good one to be on long term.
And whatever was in my system has now worked itself out. I woke up at 4am with my allergies back in full force. All of that weird cleaning plus spring is not good. It was nice to be a normal person for one day though.
@ClassicMom98 : Sounds to me like you were way above normal, in a good way!
Haha yes. From an energy, productive standpoint - way above average. I meant from an allergy standpoint. I deal with allergies to some degree 365 days a year. Itās so strange to wake up and feel nothing. Deep clean, drive with windows down, etc. and feel nothing. When it comes back, itās kind of depressing.
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We had a roof leak while out of town last month. Came home to a total mess. All the downstairs floors will have to be fixed - some replaced and the rest sanded and refinished. This means everything has to be out of the downstairs except for our bathroom and the powder room. We can keep stuff in kitchen cabinets and built in bookcases because they will tape it off with plastic sheeting, but everything off the walls, things that sit out packed away, furniture bookcases emptied. China cabinet and buffets emptied. Everything small like lamps and end tables and paintings and dining room chairs gets carried upstairs by us and the floor guys will carry the big stuff (like couches and dining tables) to the garage. Closets emptied. Piano into storage. Essentially we are moving out and then back in.
You better believe Iām taking this time to do some serious purging ! Local buy nothing group on Facebook, local donation stations, church and refugee settlements.
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Oh @dragonmom, what a mess. The silver lining is the purging, I suppose.
You have my sympathies! What a terrible situation to come home to! Why do things like this just āall of a suddenā happen? Could we not have a small drip-drip leak first?!
So sorry that happened to your house. Something similar happened to a friend, and they took the opportunity to not only purge a lot, but the same contractors could do work theyād been wanting to do at a better price while they were there. In their case they had to stay elsewhere for a couple of months, but now that they are back in they are loving it.
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That sounds terrible. Hopefully you get everything repaired soon. We had a smaller scale incident like this when our dishwasher flooded and ruined our wood floors as well as wall damage and ruined carpet in the basement. The silver lining was that the homeowners insurance paid for our floor refinishing, the repairs to the walls, new basement carpet and painting. We took advantage of that to update.
Good on you for taking the opportunity to purge.
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Gosh, roof leak sounds terrible. Glad you have a decent attitude. Best of luck during the repairs.
When we leave town we usually turn off he water (sometimes just the water at the upstairs washer). But there is not much you can do in anticipation of a roof leak. We once had a backed up gutter that resulted in water gushing into the unfinished basement. Had hubby not taken a dinner guest downstairs to show off a wood shop project,not sure how long it would have been til we saw it.
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Iām pricing and packing up the last of the kids items Iāve been clearing out for the past year (kids are in their early 20s) for a community yard sale at a local park next weekend. Including the items Iāve had listed on Mercari that havenāt sold. I hope to come home with empty containers and some $ for my hobby fund. Iāll probably give away or donate what remains at the end of the sale. Itās been a year of organizing, keeping, selling, donating and trashing and Iām ready to be finished!
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Our synagogue is having a yard sale in June and I am going to cull some of my quilting fabric and craft supplies. (My H is SO happy.) I have so much stuff, way beyond what Iāll ever be able to use thanks to donations for our womenās shelter quilt project, and its stressing me out. I have 50 completed quilt tops for the shelter that need batting, backing and then the three layers must be quilted together so I can deliver them to the shelter.
Am going to see what I can cull from the basement. S2 has a full kitchenās worth of stuff down there. Too expensive to ship it overseas.
Dropped off a load of recyclables and bulk items at the dump last week.
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We have a great non-profit store near us that accepts craft material donations, and sells them extremely cheap. Problem bringing items, is returning with none!
I once took a community course on downsizing. I had to laugh, because the instructor distributed a lot of paper instructions on downsizing. 
But the comment that struck me most was that creative people, especially crafters, have the hardest time downsizing. Everything has the potential of a future project.
I still keep a craft closet in the hopes of grandchildren. Subject for the other thread.
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Once I had grandchildren, I discovered that neither my eyes or my fingers are what they used to be. 
(Or should it be, āneither my eyes nor my fingers are what they used to beā?? My grammar isnāt what it used to be either.)
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Iām trying for a box or a bag per day. We have decided to put the house on the market this time next year. 
Cautionary tale -
Today I sorted through a box of old school work and school records. Wondering what to keep and what could go in the recycle bin, I noticed almost everything had their full legal name, birthdate and SS number! Easy pickings for identity thieves. Into the shredder with it!
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If you can, scan some items into your important Paper folders before shredding - I was surprised at needing to look back at old docs (i.e. immunization records for my 36 yo).
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I am happy to report that the NYC Dept. of Health keeps immunization records on file for all former children who were treated here.
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