An easy, pleasant thing...
4 weeks ago
...burning through almost a dozen candles of varying size that I’ve had for quite a while.
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...and came back with only 2 books. Also, the pile of things in the donation pile in the garage is growing.
Clank clank crash boom...
1 month ago
The sound of our toaster oven that stopped working about 4 months ago going into the dumpster. Suddenly we have so much more counter space!
Change is a'brewing...
2 months ago
...It’s all kinda vague, but it looks like we’ll be moving out of California in approximately 2, maybe 3 years. We’re targeting northern New England, which is where I’m from. It’s exciting, and since I’ve already made the move cross country once (5 years ago), I have a better idea of what to jettison and what to keep. We actually want to move sooner, but my husband has to finish some schooling, we need to knock out some debt, and I want to build some savings to pay both for moving and to float us for a little while, if we don’t start working right away. I’m also glad that we’ll have some time to sort through all our possessions, and give away some things to family and friends that we won’t want to take with us (like our 4 foot tall cactus on our patio) instead of tossing them.
Ummm
3 months ago
We cleaned out under our bed because we wanted to store something large and flat under there… and found out we had six (count ‘em) extra pillows. We got rid of three, and the other ones are for guests.
I hate having too much stuff.
6 months ago
I took a whole pickup full of crap to donate a month ago. Since then I’ve already found two more bagfuls. We’ve really been working hard to declutter and downsize. I had a goal a couple of years ago to get rid of stuff, but it’s something that needs to be revisited every once in a while.
Today in the garage I got rid of an umbrella that hasn’t been used in 5 years (I live in Southern California… hardly any rain), a bobblehead lobster, a basket, some plastic tumblers, and a tangled ball of extension cords.
In the apartment there’s another bag of stuff that I’ve been throwing stuff into… and I honestly can’t remember what’s in it… so I guess I obviously don’t need/want anything that’s in it!
