Well, a good thing about this snow storm is it’s given me time to sort through a bunch of papers and a bunch of clothes. I have a big bag of clothes to donate, along with a tub labeled “probably will never wear.” Not sure how long I will keep the clothes in the tub. I shredded a bunch of old receipts and things like that. I get another day off tomorrow, so I plan to spend more time cleaning and purging.
Did nobody else use some of the snow time to clean up? 
^ I planned to, but after going 6 rounds of shoveling snow, that was all the " cleaning up" I could handle.
No snow in my neck of the woods, but I drove a bunch of stuff the kiddo left to the Goodwill pickup site. 3 bags this week! And the week is not over yet. Will try to tackle the pile of clothes kiddo left in the guest room.
Have piled up D’s massive amount of memorabilia in our family room. This does not include anything (Not much) that I have saved nor her toys such as her American Girls stuff.
It is shocking and I am feeling that I failed to teach her how to let go and how to organize.
I have been throwing stuff away that I know she will never care about such as fuzzy pictures or 2 of 3 duplicates.
She is out of town right now but here until May. If she does not take care of it by then I will.
I am setting up a new studio in one of the bedrooms and the domino effect is huge!
Just be sure before you throw anything away that you think she would never care about to run that by her first. My parents had to move quickly when I was away at college (long story) . They got rid of a lot of my stuff without consulting me. I had a Barbie game that I still think about that they just got rid of because they just had to move quickly . It seems crazy but I still remember this decades later and miss my Barbie game! I loved Poindexter!
Promise I am not getting rid of anything that is a “single” item. Just out of focus pictures and duplicates.
She has been asked and asked to go through this stuff and her answer has been that when
we need the space she will. We have a larger storage room with tons of her dolls and such. Not asking her to remove those items and they are the keepers for her own kids.
I am setting up an art studio in the room she has been storing her out-of -control stuff. So, yes, now I need her to purge.
I do not believe that she will, actually, except because it is the family room and so she cannot ignore it.
BTW she is 32, in med school, and still far off from taking it all herself.
Still have some of S’s stuff but it is in a few containers in the bigger storage area.
He would never even care if it disappeared!
Nothing to do with cleaning out, but I remember that game well, sevmom. Poindexter !
Yeah, I loved Poindexter! What a name.
I still have that Barbie game! I’ll bet Poindexter was a lot more successful than Ken - he probably invented Facebook or Microsoft or something similar.
When I was in 8th grade, my parents moved us from a very large apt (upstairs to the business below) to a home my dad’s construction company built. Mom pitched what little stuff we had that she considered ‘junk’ - my artist cousin had a Hummel drawing in my autograph book that I regret having ‘lost’. They bought new beds, new bedding, so pitched or left a fair amount of stuff that didn’t remain in furnished apt (dad remodeled the building into 5 apartment, some were furnished). Sorry about the Barbie game - I didn’t own it, but played it often at a neighbor’s. Was it Barbie Dream Date?
My dad was in the Army and we moved every couple of years. There were weight limits on what could be transported to a new duty station, so lots of things were chucked at each move. This included all my childhood books. I now have a large number of the guys’ books here waiting for them when they have families.
We chucked a garbage can full of linoleum floor tiles this weekend. Drain next to the new heater is overflowing and backing up into the rest of the basement workshop. The tiles are so waterlogged that they were peeling off the floor. Good thing we hadn’t moved everything back into the workshop after the HVAC was installed in late November, but we still had a lot of wet stuff. Ugh.
Thanks, @SOSConcern . No, it wasn’t Barbie Dream Date. It would have been the classic 60’s “The Barbie Game.”
Glad for you @CountingDown that you didn’t have more wet stuff/ruined, but sorry for the mess you have…
Like you, I have saved things for the next generations. Our niece used our baby clothes for her daughter, and she is growing to be a reader, so we have boxes of books for her to go through childhood - started with Clifford the big red dog books that I mailed to them when she was crazy about her first one. Our nephew has two daughters and they like some of the clothes. As long as we have storage space for the ‘high end’ stuff.
Funny that Barbie has come up in the news and on the cover of Time.
I still have my Barbie doll from the sixties and lots of her clothes . My mother didn’t get rid of that , luckily. Also, still have my Charmin Chatty. But I had two sons so those dolls will have to wait for potential granddaughters to play with them.
I have saved lots of my kids’ books too, as well as lots of Legos, Brio, and wooden puzzles. Neither kid is getting married any time soon though so I may be having to keep them around for quite a while!
I am taking over D’s old bedroom. It is turning into a glass kiln and exercise room.
I have piled about 20 boxes of stuff from her closet for her to purge.
If she doesn’t, soon, I will. She happens to be home until May doing research.
We have a large storage room and will keep her chosen things until we move someday.
H has old medical books that neither D or DIL want–he said, “maybe” when asked if I can unload them.
In my vocabulary that means “Yes, of course”. 
D was home this weekend and I suggested she go through some of the stuff she has left in her room. She agreed, but it never happened. Oh, well…
OTOH, I worked late last night and noticed that H filled some time by going through some shirts and pulling several for to give away.
Win some, lose some.
My former associate pastor just posted this on FB - Forty Days, Forty Items. It is a challenge to identify one item per day during Lent that you don’t need and then to make a donation at the end of the Lenten journey. Neat idea!
Bumping this up. It is a long weekend for many of us… Let the purge go ahead full speed!
Garden tools is my next project. There are many rusted ones and there are too many flower pots I will never be able to use (see my avatar? 
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I’m sure any community gardens or co-ops would love your extra gardening tools.