minimize my material possessions

I’ve got so many old clothes that are not of good quality to be donated.

So, I’m going to use them for crafts. The next few classes at The Womans Industrial Exchange that focus on Sewing and Crochet, I’m going to see if I can pick up on more skills to make items that I can initially use around the house. With practice, I hope I can get good enough to eventually sell some stuff and at least supplement my income.

I managed to get rid of quite a few things pack ratted… I mean accumulated over the years. I now have an adjustable kitchen/dining table and [technically] three chairs to get rid of.

I say technically because I’m rather fond of one as a computer chair but I’m figuring its easier to unload the table and chairs together if there are two as opposed to three chairs to go with it.

If it means an extra 20.00USD though, I’d split with it in a heartbeat. In addition to clearing space, quite frankly, I need the money to pay bills.

I’m also doing a number on the yarn. I’m hoping to have all the projects in my goal completed on schedule and even a blanket or two extra.

I cleared out a lot of my old stuff and it’s now hollow sounding in here. It’s like the inside of a wide, deep cave or something only warmer and wired for electricity and telephone…

Next stop, the bag of mystery materials… muahahahahahahaaa

Oh yeah, I found my scissors. The calendar is still MIA though…

Where my scissors are is anyones guess…

I need them to get the addresses off of the other half of the old magazines. EEEEk. In order to find my scissors, I must clean my room, and to do that I must..er, this is getting like ‘I know an old lady who swallowed a fly’...

First things first. Clean my room, desk included. I’ve no laundry detergent but I won’t be deterred. I’ve got shampoo and even neighbors if it comes down to asking. I’m just thankful that I don’t wear heavy fabric clothing that often.

While I’m doing that, I’m going to tear through the few clothes I’ve kept to wear since packing the rest away one year ago to see what can be donated of those. Then, and only then, will I open the box of packed away stuff.

Well, must get to it.

Come to think of it, there’s another thing I did yesterday in addition to give a t-shirt away. I’ve kept an old stack of magazine since the days of what seems to be the Suns formation and, despite three moves, could never seem to let them go.

Last night, for some reason, I went through them and but for them having my name on some of them, I saw absolutely no reason to keep any of them.

Well, they’re getting chucked out. Next stop, old catalogues.

When I go to the American Red Cross for either donations or volunteering, I usually get one or two of the gratuity items. In the case of t-shirts, for some occasions, they’ve practically thrown them at me and this has obviously caused a duplicate shirt issue.

So, I gave one to my mother for reasons that don’t need exploring at this juncture. It helped her feel a little better and, as I realized after the fact, it made my owned items just a bit lighter.

I’m going to try one more time to get rid of this thing. I really don’t want it anymore and it is LITERALLY just sitting here with dust almighty all over it.

Craigslist, here I come…

All the excess clothes are gone gone gone. Now to get rid of this printer. It’s kind of ironic. I bought it, thinking I’d need it for school, but I’ve found that I don’t use it much at all. I’d rather sell it and get the ten bucks off of it than just let it sit there collecting dust.

Heck, for fifteen, I’ll even include the printer cable.

I ditched so much stuff over the past few days. I am down to just over two boxes worth of clothing and most of it is packed away in one box in my closet until I can lose enough weight to fit into them again.

My closet is clear now but for books, the clothes I’m actively wearing, and that one box, and another box where I’m throwing all the junk food people keep throwing at me in an effort to force me to break my goal of losing weight.

Given how tight money is, I’m not just going to throw away edible food, even if it is junk food, but nor am I going to use it except as a food of last resort. I’ve been making healthy eating choices and making sure I keep my health up.

Next clearance stop – Old paperwork in other closets. >:)

I had been trying to sell this mirror I got from another person for the better part of a year when someone finally replied to my advert. At this point, I was offering it up for free as I just wanted it out of the house.

Point is…it’s GONE!!!