17 a box of old jewelry to DI

I’ll list the actual ones later, but we’re just going to give away some of our VHS tapes that we never watch… the group includes Labyrinth. I never got into that movie, even though I kinda wish I could since I generally like movies like that. Maybe it’s cause I didn’t grow up with it, I didn’t ever see it till I was 18, I think.

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.

16. my hair dryer. my ex-boyfriend actually “borrowed” it when i moved to long beach, but since i moved to provo like 3 months ago and will be moving to laie in a few more, i just (like, a minute ago) told him he could keep it. it was like $10 anyway.

9. a rather cheapo curling iron. i already have a better one, this was just hanging on out of memory…or something.
10. a bag of clothes
11. ratty sheepskin boots i tried to get rid of 3 times already. hope this time’s the charm.
12. a green shirt i’m giving to my sister. i’m not sure she knows this, but if she remembers i said i was giving it to her, all the better.
13. 4 cheapo nail polishes.
14. toe separating things.
15. a hat that i always loved for years and years and inherited from my sister, but i never ever wore it because it wasn’t my type of hat, so off it goes!

7. a paper towel holder (gave to my sister after she moved and needed one)
8. dish drying rack (same)

didn’t need these things since in my new place we have them. Bueno.

6. Season 1 of Stargate on DVD. I gave it to my mom, she loves it more than I do.

so far i’ve gotten rid of:
1. a suitcase full of clothes (!)
~i let justina pick through it and she took quite a few things…the rest will go to DI
2. our old shower curtain and bathmat that were covered in spray-on tan
3. my broken printer, complete with probably $50 worth of unused cartridges
4. ancient alarm clock
5. 2 pots of dirt that once held flowers but have LONG since died

yeah…i’ve started accumulating more stuff though. i’m trying to replace old things with new…

6. a dress
7. a pair of espadrilles with black cloth straps (although, to be honest, I wouldn’t be getting rid of these if I didn’t have to cause they’re so cute and used to actually be comfortable, before my feet swelled up from being preggo. One of the straps ripped a little and is beyond fixing but I put off getting rid of them for months and months.)
8. several dozen plastic hangers that have somehow made their way into my house (counting them all as one… otherwise I’d be done with my 52 things already!)

So far I’m getting rid of…
1. a colander
2. a pair of black pumps
3. a board game
4. a massage-y foot soak thing
5. wedding bouquet (I didn’t preserve it properly and now it’s all squished-looking and dusty and full of who knows what… I’m going to save a few petals, tho)