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Post by sue5000 on May 29, 2014 0:56:21 GMT -5
robnoxious007, I also read this thread daily. You have NEVER not showed up! On the other thread, too! You are one of the hardest working people I've ever met! Well, you know what I mean. You must be exhausted working those long hours, and then, you STILL make sure to remove at least one bag every day! Amazing!! I started emptying my house ( mostly by having garage sales every spring/summer/fall) 4 years ago. Yes, I did other stuff, too, during that time... working at a job, painting projects inside and outside my house, and all the yard work, etc. But one of the biggest reasons it's taking me this long is because 'the decisions' are really hard for me to make sometimes. Get this... I'm having a 3 day garage sale this weekend, and I'm trying to finish setting it all up tonight. Well... I've just brought 3 boxes of stuff BACK INTO the house ... cus I might want to keep it now.... I want to thank you for sharing your feelings. It helps to know I'm not the only one going through this anxiety. It doesn't matter that we're not finished yet- or even close to it! What matters is that we ARE working on it EVERY SINGLE DAY! It's difficult and very time-consuming..... but one day, we WILL be finished!!
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Post by MamaAngie on May 29, 2014 18:07:01 GMT -5
I had given myself the goal to get 5 more bags done by the end of the month. But boy oh boy the work days (lack of sleep) wipe me out. And not feeling good yesterday or today. I am claiming 1 bag of digital clutter.
I just unsubscribed from another 10 emails. Most of them are weekly and at least one was daily. I end up having to trash these each day. I had removed myself from about 30 a couple months ago. I know I get less "junk email" but still seems to be too much "clutter."
Also "toot" for calling and taking care of one item for our insurance. We bought a new vehicle at the beginning of the month and I had the card from the Credit Union sitting on my desk to call and give them info. I did not want someone choosing an insurance to add on to our loan amount because they thought we didn't have any. I had accidentally tossed the letter that had the control number so that had paralyzed me from making the difficult call (having to talk to a person instead of doing an automated call or online update) for a couple weeks. Turned out it was easy and the gal found our info and insurance info had been updated by our agent. Yea!!!
Okay so that gives me 16 bags.
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Post by MamaAngie on May 29, 2014 19:01:14 GMT -5
Okay so I can claim bag #17. I had a lot of bathroom trash in our master bathroom. This is the one that I only empty. Hubby does a trash round up on the small cans on Sunday night to put out for Monday trash day but since the master is in our room, he doesn't want to wake me. And it seems like I look at this can and say "gee that needs emptied" many times in the week. Just an issue of putting a BAG in the can for easy emptying and keeping bags in there. So that small trash can I emptied into a kitchen trash bag. Also did a little purge then while in the bathroom to make the most of my bag and added these items:
1 potty seat (fits on potty. Too small for son) 2 bottles baby lotion (don't use and haven't in how long?) many samples of shampoo/conditioner 5 never used combs (from cheap comb pkg bought for hubby & son - kept about 5 that they can use) 1 empty conditioner bottle (popped top off today to get last of conditioner out but didn't toss in trash since trash was piled high) 1 shower mat (so stained. Washed recently but just not going to clean up, even with bleech.) 1 old shower "poof" - falling apart and I have a new one in the shower
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Post by MamaAngie on May 29, 2014 23:19:18 GMT -5
Going to still post in this thread tonight and tomorrow. Then I will start on June 1st in the new thread and on the Purge-A-Thon. My goal was to make 20 bags by tomorrow. Should be doable since I just got 2 more bags done. Woot!! That puts me at 19.
#18 - Kitchen grab and toss in the box. Did this without much thought in less than 5 minutes. Pulled out 1 stove top skillet type pan I used ONCE out of drawer under oven. A couple Tupperware containers. An old Pampered Chef gallon pitcher. I don't keep a gallon of anything other than milk in the house at once. Juice is 2 quarts only. I have only found 2 out of the 3 parts of this one because my son turned it into a toy, broke it and scattered it. This has gone in the recycle and once I find the last piece it will get pitched as well. A couple old kitchen towels tossed out. 2 interesting bowls (salsa type bowl for company) that I have not ever used. Probably gifts. AMNESTY!!!! Also tossed out 2 cups --- a sippy cup that my daughter managed to bust the lid on. She's going thru behavioral problems of throwing things and this was one of the many items she threw at our front window (praying she doesn't break our window!) so the lid cracked. I tossed the lid yesterday. Why not the cup? I came out with an uneven number of cups per lids. Duh! And also tossed a Starbuck's insulated cup I use for water, but the outer part is cracked so bad. That was a good amount of stuff gone. yea!!!
#19 - Garage pantry purge! This took a matter of 2 or 3 minutes to round up the items. It got one of my shelves in garage pantry cleared. I was able to combine items that don't need tossed from 2 shelves into one. Items that I pulled had expire dates of 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. I think I had 6 glass jars of relish, 6 bottles of marinades, 1 bottle hot sauce, 2 bottles Heinz 57, 3 drink mixes (like Crystal light - cups to make a gallon at a time), 6 boxes of Tuna Helper (think my daughter dumped this at our house when they went Gluten free) and a box and a half of outdated Zantac. I usually try to recycle as much as possible. I emptied all the glass jars out, rinsed and put in the glass recycle. I emptied the packets of Tuna Helper out and broke down the boxes. But the few canned items, I just claim amnesty. Tired and pitched them into the bag! Oh and the few plastic bottles too. I just wanted it out. That filled my kitchen trash up and I needed a large plastic tub to bring all my glass out to bin.
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Post by MamaAngie on May 30, 2014 13:08:26 GMT -5
Bags # 20 and #21 done! Worked in 8 yo's bedroom. Cleared out all junk papers from her desk. Picked up tons of trash from her floor, desk, under desk, actually in trash can, behind trash can, etc. I filled up a paper size bag of trash (#20) and a desk size trash can (my recycle bin which was empty) full of papers to recycle.
WOOT!! The cool part is clearing out all those papers and stuff that she doesn't do anything with (tons of old colored pages and even more never colored), she has places to keep her Littlest Pet shop animals and 2 large pet shop play sets in her desk cabinet. She loves these but we fight about putting them away from her desk at night. Now they have a home.
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Post by Ally on May 31, 2014 9:33:14 GMT -5
MamaAngie, you've been rockin it! Today is my last day for this thread. I didn't post that I put a bag out for pick up on Thursday, which was a very small accomplishment. I'm hoping to fill a few bags today. Already today I have been sorting through papers and putting papers into a box to be recycled. I paid some bills, one was overdue. I need to delete about 1000 or more emails, but some of that will wait for the June purge-a-thon.
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Post by neatncleanin2014 on May 31, 2014 11:29:50 GMT -5
I filled 15 lawn and leaf garbage bags last week which cleared out most of the 2nd floor. Got most of the rooms vacuumed so it's starting to look good again. I hope to have everything done before the end of June. Keep up the good work everyone!
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Post by RoadRunner on Jun 1, 2014 9:19:24 GMT -5
Good Work MamaAngie and neatncleanin2014 -- Rocking Those Bags My final post for the 35 bags 35 day challenge I met my goal for purging, sorting, and staging items in house and garage. (At least for item total). I had my yard sale the 31st and I took 900+ items with me and I returned with 175 items. Total purge, sort and stage was 2007 items.
Yard challenge I only clocked 8 hours of the 30 hours I wanted to clock. Mostly maintenance stuff.
Classroom Clutter -- Paper Work -- filed 36 (actually more, but I lost count after 36) inches of classroom "stuff".
ONWARD to the June Purge-A-Thon and Bag A Day Challenge.
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