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Post by 1rarebeautifuldove on Apr 28, 2016 21:46:15 GMT -5
Oh wow cyn - you had a Lite Brite!!! You lucky girl!!! I always wanted one of those!! Great job on the bins of toys!!! Went through 10 or so boxes. 10 that were emptied all the way. There were more, but I only numbered the empties. I have 2 full (small) boxes of things to take to the thrift shop. Also a bag of things and just started another box. A big ginormous box came today and it contained my AeroPilates Machine. It is all put together. I have tried it. I like it very much! I had to open it in the driveway and bring in parts until I could drag the box to the house. Tomorrow, the Air Rower's box is scheduled to leave. So, tomorrow morning onto the porch it will go. I got 2 bags of trash out and a broken fan. I have 2 1/2 bags of packaging from the pilates machine. Tomorrow 4 baggies of Bottle Caps and tabs are going to the thrift shop. They are collecting them.
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Post by angela on Apr 28, 2016 23:01:43 GMT -5
1rarebeautifuldove I love the approach you are taking with your boxes. By making it a treasure hunt, you have some real external motivation to get through those boxes, I'm excited for you! cyn, wow, that is really something to go through old toys like you did! And you kept something that you still enjoy, well done, and put away,
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Post by peaceandfreedom on Apr 30, 2016 0:49:26 GMT -5
"Blasted weed" report: been spending as much time as possible outside pulling Blastedweeds. This week, total of 55 gallons (11 5-gallon buckets full).
Total since I began this adventure on March 31: 101 gallons of Blastedweeds! Making good progress, the front and side of the yard (corner lot) really look good now. I've been sleeping pretty soundly, too, from being tired.
Did not work outside today. Partly sunny with showers and chilly wind, so stayed inside. Paid some BILLS (another B word.)
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Post by mynicehome on Apr 30, 2016 9:06:17 GMT -5
, peaceandfreedom, you've managed to find enough "B"s to keep you Busy! I have another one -- Burr Bushes! Yes, my yearly attack on these sticklers has begun. Yesterday I uprooted another five or six that were left standing last year. No burrs on them, because they are on the goats woolly hair right now. I've been doing this every year for at least a decade and I've almost obliterated them from the pasturing area. There were hundreds of them. This is the year they'll finally be all gone.
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Post by mouseanne on Apr 30, 2016 18:21:44 GMT -5
Unpacked 2 vacation shopping bags. Bags put for 2nd hand store donation.
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Post by LauraLotsaStuff on Apr 30, 2016 18:35:14 GMT -5
Wow, where do I start? First, I know I'm not the only one who takes the "shortcut" of heaving something from an area I need to use into a bin, box or bag. Temporary, right? Well, temp fix anyway. I've been slipping a bit in some areas. Dining room table is full but I can clear that, I just haven't. I just donated 5 boxes last week and still have 3 bags of clothes ready to go out. I've had a goal of getting rid of all the cardboard BOXES if for nothing else other than replacing them with plastic bins (which are empty and waiting), they are cleaner and generally stack better, and don't seem to interest bugs as much as cardboard. Mostly been working on all 3 Bedrooms, to get all the bins/boxes off the floors. DS2 room done, DS3/1 room half done, my room nearly done. I threw out the laundry hamper in my room, because I had one in my bathroom too, and my Bedroom is so small already. My thinking was, if the hamper is full, it's time to wash, not fill up hamper #2, right? OK, going to try to get something done!
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Post by Unswamping on May 1, 2016 14:56:16 GMT -5
cyn great job on tossing that stuff and proudly displaying your barbie camper. 1rarebeautifuldove target sells lite brite if you really want one. Great job on emptying all those boxes. You've been doing a fantastic job,consistently sorting and tossing. peaceandfreedom great job on all those blasted weeds! I hope you are getting near the end of it. mynicehome great job on the burr bushes. A burr free pasture is a very beautiful thing. What a terrfic accomplishment. mouseanne good job on unpacking shopping bags and putting bags away. LauraLotsaStuff great job on cleaning up the bedrooms. I managed to part with a bunch of puzzle books. A box plus a pile. Going in recycling tonight. Been going through boxes and bins in living room. Some stuff sorted, some to go out. Not sure about quantities, its a huge mess right now but im moving forward with it. Also sorted dining room bins so like bins are with like bins. Still have a ways to go. I need to figure out homes for this stuff. Living in a bin is not a good life.
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Post by mouseanne on May 1, 2016 16:46:40 GMT -5
Sorted box 2014 bills shredded bag shredding to car 2 14" boxes newspapers to car 2 Groc bags alum cans to car
Recycling not open tomorrow but will be next day-tuesday
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Post by Ally on May 1, 2016 17:03:52 GMT -5
Where have I "bin" the past several weeks? I didn't know this thread existed. I have a house full of boxes and bins that need to be taken care of, and honestly many of them have been shoved in a corner for years, so I know there is nothing in them that I desperately need, but at the same time, there are a few things that I am missing that I'd love to find again... especially a book written by a distant relative that gives the history of the family on my maternal grandmother's side. I'd love to find it again. I've been missing it for years. DD has taken an interest in the family genealogy so I'm sure she'd love to see it as well. I don't know that DD has ever seen the book.
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Post by angela on May 1, 2016 20:29:50 GMT -5
Diving into my Doom room boxes. First foray, none emptied yet but did find two scarves I had knitted last year and had looked for ALL WINTER!
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Post by 1rarebeautifuldove on May 2, 2016 0:37:00 GMT -5
Unswamping - thanks for the tip on where to get a Lite Brite. I think I will pass. I have other things that I want more. angela - so glad that you found those scarves!! That is wonderful!!! The main thing is that you found them. I sorted through and organized 3 boxes of leather which are being readied to go to their new home. It took a while, but I am pleased with the effort it took. The result was getting the 3 boxes from the leather emptied - it had been crammed in there and was a mess. There was no way I was going to give someone a mess. I was able to get it better. And, also, I was able to put to use a number of boxes that I was wanting to find uses for. In going through the big fabric box, I filled 2 empty plastic bins with the fabric that I will be donating. And I have another one which I will be filling with other fabrics to donate, as it wouldn't fit into the box I wanted to use to ship. So, that plastic bin was swapped for a very pretty box that I bought and was sitting in my closet that was the perfect size for the leather, and the wrong size for anything I have here. One thing that I did that I am particularly pleased with myself about is that I opened the box right away with the wrapping paper organizer when it arrived, put that in its new home and put one roll of wrapping paper in it. The other rolls are in my bedroom - still. But it is a start. I was pleased that I took care of a new package/item right away and put it where it belongs. I also did that with a few little purchases I made - when I bought some knobs for the bedroom closet - for the purses. I put those in a drawer - for now. I put the Brass Butterfly on my writing desk. I hung the little crystal I bought. The pictures are still waiting to be hung. But that's ok. Part was done right away. I still have quite a few boxes, bins, bags to go through.
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Post by angela on May 2, 2016 23:53:01 GMT -5
You're doing great 1rarebeautifuldove! Going through your craft materials for donation is inspiring me to do the same. Thank you! You're also talking about something that is so important in preventing the bag/box clutter in the first place: putting things to their use as soon as they come in the door, or very shortly thereafter! I think it's a powerful way to continually evaluate whether something is actually needed or whether there's space for a certain thing. Hi Ally, dive on in! I hope you find that book, it does sound important and lovely. Good job on sorting out those 2014 papers mouseanne. I'm glad you were able to release some puzzle books Unswamping. That is an accomplishment! ______________ I worked more in the Doom Room upstairs today. Really dug into the bags and boxes and basket of miscellaneous craft materials. Sorted all the newest acquisitions into clear plastic garbage bags by type of material. This was all stuff that was sitting as the top layer over other, older boxes. As I went I tried to catalogue all the someday projects I had gotten this stuff for. I think I did pretty good writing it all out. It is a fair number of projects and only a thimbleful of materials compared to the ocean in the yarn, fabric, and decor bins waiting for me in the downstairs Doom Room. Scary. After I had that done, I started on the one box that is literally nothing but paper, wall to wall. Think reams of paper stood on end in a box. Ugh. Most of it consists of articles that I printed out from various websites. It's sort of organized into categories. So today I went through all the goat/sheep articles. A ream of paper to go away. A few articles to keep just to remind me of certain reference things. Further into the box are print-outs of self-help type articles, life purpose/goals/career type articles, other money making articles. Spiral bound printed copies of the old public domain self-help books "The Science of Being Rich" and "The Science of Being Well". Some early New Thought type materials.. Also in there, my old Flylady control journal, her print-outs for periodic house maintenance, like the winterizing checklist. Her FACE workbook for financial stuff. Household inventory sheets... Toastmasters stuff. Clipped out articles for recipes, self-help, tips, etc. Pretty much everything in this box is from 10-15 years ago. It is almost a time capsule. I am determined to get through it this time! And then I can report that the BOX of DOOM has been vanquished! Oh and I did assemble a small garbage bag of yarn for donation!
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Post by peaceandfreedom on May 3, 2016 9:13:29 GMT -5
angela, your big box of papers sounds an awful lot like my big boxes of papers! It is actually interesting to go through it and be reminded of various stages of life and what things I was once interested in! Not to mention why I even thought to keep most of it at the time. Yes, a time capsule indeed. Like those time capsules they put into a new public building to capture a slice of what life was like at that moment in time. Then, they open them up 100 years or so later! Keep up the good work!
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Post by cyn on May 3, 2016 19:17:26 GMT -5
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Post by mouseanne on May 4, 2016 15:22:26 GMT -5
Earlier this week, I processed, put away, emptied the kitchen vacation box. Plates/cups/spoons/cereal/crackers.
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