These are items I’m taking to a church exchange type thing (hopefully I can hold off on taking in more junk… but it will be difficult because apparently that’s just how I am). I’m taking the things left to a thrift store when it’s over:

9. a calendar
10. a paper lantern (red with gold trimmings… woo!)
11. a belt
12. a skirt
13. 5 pairs of socks (they’re new and still in their packaging! haha… I don’t give people my old socks. I just never used them.)
14. a dinosaur train set type thing
15. a manual juicer
16. small, blue tin bucket
17. small terra cotta planter
18. a veggie chopper (we somehow ended up with two, and we don’t need two!)
19. a media rack
20. an incomplete set of dishes (we finally upgraded a year or two ago, and haven’t needed these ones since then)

As for my old karate stuff… I called one of the studios of the company I used to take lessons from but they said they don’t re-circulate anything. So maybe I’ll sell them for cheap on Ebay or something, I dunno. I still like the idea of giving the belts, weapons (such as they are), and videos and stuff to someone who can’t afford everything, but I dunno. I guess giving away the belts doesn’t make as much sense since no one else earned them but me. So maybe I’ll save those. And I don’t really want to give someone my old gis – they may be clean, but I did sweat in them many times, after all. I dunno. I guess I could just give the videos to a thrift store and sell the sword and bo staff.

I also need to figure out the best place to send my (and my late cousins’) old pairs of glasses. I know there are places that use the components and then give them to people who need glasses… I think I just need to do some more research.

Sorry, that was sort of rambling.