Purge yearbooks?? Isn’t that like illegal or something??
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Category Archives: hoarding
Donatables Done
Not the Rubbermaid tote of donatables, but it IS a Rubbermaid tote of our stuff! And yes, you have seen this pic before. I have to start recycling the pix, just like the posts!
Rubbermaid tote.
Last Monday, about 3 weeks ago now, I worked on 4 kitchen cabinets. Going thru and de-cluttering, and evaluating expiration dates on the food. Do you know how hard that stuff is to read??? My eyes almost gave out, before the rest of me did!
It wore me out!!
But at the end of the afternoon, I had a half of a huge Rubbermaid tote full to donate! And some food to give away.
I felt so wonderful, to get that much done in a day!! Yes, the feeling of accomplishment, and pride was there, underneath the exhaustion!
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Purse Purging
(More info about Irma stuff, when I can get the pesky pix to load!!)
That time of year again; ye ole annual purging o’ the purse. Since I have a fairly small one now, it could probably be bumped up to biannually, at least!
*Gasp!!* An orange purse??? PurpleSlob, are you sick??
I know, I know! No one I know can believe I bought an orange one!!
Here’s the pix of this go round. Start.
- Da dark depths of da dungeon. I mean purse.
1 lonely earring. That I’ve only worn once, cuz I hate intensely dislike the colors. (Well, I brought them to coordinate with a shirt, that then I got rid of too, cuz I don’t like those colors. DUH!)
- 1 lonely earring. 1 piece clear trash
How many purple pens do I need in my purse??
1 lil, 2 lil, 3 lil pens!
Hint: probably not this many. And I definitely don’t need the orange one! No matter what color my purse is!
Receipts, mostly trash. Except the one for rent, and the one with survey code for free Wendy’s sandwich!
- Mostly useless receipts.
Some more VIT= very important trash.
DD1’s credit card, to get gas, in Vanronica. Yeah, that was pretty much purged immediately, back into her hot little hand! (DD’s, not Vanronicas’!) But honey, it was orange, and I just couldn’t see it against the lining of my purse!
DD1’s debit.
2 things hand sanitizer. Since one is Norwex, guess which one is being purged??
Who’s hands are the dirtiest??
I had previously purged the useless, long, skinny strap:
Useless, long, skinny strap: gone!
Finally, we’re down to the lining.
- Yucky mess! (So what else is new??)
Cleaning the lining will have to wait for another day. I’m bushed! Lol.
An 8 house post. Brought to you by the letter “P”, and the color orange.
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Totally Toxic Tub Toypaloosa
Get a load of this load of lovelies!
A mermaid and a bug eyed fish. Sounds like the beginning of a joke!
These is the girl’s totally toxic tub toypaloosa.
(I had already removed the moldy ducks.)
I got these spanking new duckies last week,
I have ducks! And they’re in a row! Look Elizabeth!
and told PP she could only have them if she threw away the old moldy ones.
This is not even the worst one. Eeek!
Which she happily did immediately! She even grabbed the nasty Mama duck, and threw her in the trash too! Wow!! 4 toys out, only 3 in!! Score!!
But it’s so embarrassing WHY the poor little innocent ducks had to meet their fate. They were toxic. Probably to the nuclear reactor factor- toxic. 😦
But this time is gonna be different!!
- Hopefully this will shut the ducks up, no more squeaking!
I read somewhere a long while back, that to keep toys clean, ya need to plug up the water hole, with nail polish. So, here we go to test that theory out!
I’ll try anything!
It worked on the mama duck’s beak, but not so well on the babies’ bottoms. The nail polish just kept endlessly dripping into the empty cavern. Need to go back to the drawing board!
Now, to get rid of the other toxic tub toys.
Buh bye totally toxic tub toys!
Yeah, when PP, and PPJR get back from Daddy’s, they will probably notice a few toys missing. But, hoping the joy of the new duckies will carry them along for a while!!
Well, I know they are really, really gonna miss this 1 especially.
Pretty dirty mermaid
So, I’m thinking I will try to rescue it with Norwex. Will post about the rescue effort later.
Perfectly purged playthings.
Totally toxic tub toypaloosa no more!!
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Busted Bags
We have sooo many bags in this house!! I thought I’d de-cluttered bags before I moved here. But, all I can find is references to shopping bags, not purging them. So, we still have a ton of bags. Well, they’re light, so maybe not a ton, a half a ton???
Anyway, I don’t even know if I can find all the shopping bags, and other assorted bags we own. But today, I finally decided enough on 2 bags, that were busted.
ENOUGH! I say!
They’re not even shopping bags, but definitely busted.
First one had PP’s blankie, and sheet from day care in it. PPJr oh so helpfully unpacked it, then put it on her shoulder, and toted it around.
So very pretty at first glance!!
But when I actually focused on it…
- Not a good sign!!
She was not gonna be carrying it around very long!
So, I did the compassionate thing, and laid it to rest. (After a long pitched battle, to wrest it from the baby’s hands!! She was determined to love it to the end!! No pix, or video, thankfully!! It got really ugly there at the last!)
Since one bag was scheduled for burial, I decided to go ahead and grab the diaper bag, that was busted, and make it a two-fer.
(We were already using the newer one…. just letting the old one hang around for….????)
Yeah, that left a mark.
Definitely past its prime!!
The mass grave.
Moment of silence please, for all their years of service.
2 more items down!! This house will be empty in no time, at this rate!! 😉
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Shirley’s Sheets
Well, not really Shirley’s sheets, but Shirley took them. And they’re not really sheets either, more like towels. Well, one of them is an old, raggedy baby blankie. But to a shelter dog, it’ll make their hard bed feel better, so we’re pretending they’re sheets. Got it?? Good, let’s go.
Sis Shirley and me.
Another towel?? Yep, this one was not included in the __31__ count, since I had forgotten it, till I saw this pic.
Shirley volunteers at a no-kill shelter, C.A.R.E. She has a huge heart!! So when I told her I had a towel, and a blankie to give her, she was thrilled!! And she drove all the way over to my house from Apollo Beach to get them! JK!!
Actually, she was coming to DD1’s Norwex party, and I happened to remember them before she left!! Yay!
She also cares for a feral cat colony, at her home. She tirelessly feeds them, then traps as many as she can. Out of her own pocket, she takes them to the vet, to get them healthy, then she spays or neuters them.
What a great idea!! Pinterest.com
Google images. Shirley’s cats would not pose for the camera!
If it sounds like I’m promoting Shirley to try to sell her, NO WAY!! She’s our sister in LOVE, and you can’t have her!! Go get your own!!
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Total Towels
Ok, so in Charitable Choice, I posted about giving away 7 towels, just yesterday.
Tonight, there were 2 more baskets of laundry to fold. Guess what the majority of the items were??
If you said towels, you win!
In these 2 loads, there were 14 towels total!
Keeping these 10.
And we had just given away 7!! And there were 10 already in the cabinet!!
Total towels we had previously: 31 !!!! For only 2 adults, and 2 kids! Me thinks we had waaaay too many towels!
So, we culled out some more:
Towels going bye!!
Leaving this go round: 4 towels, 2 hand towels, and 1 washrag.
And 1 baby shirt, that’s too little for PPJr now.
And we still have 20 left…… {towels, not baby shirts. I’m sure we have way more than 20 baby shirts!}
Oh yeah! And 1 wash rag that only had a lil ole hole in it, that I helped along on its journey.
That was fun, ripping into that!! I love to destroy stuff!!
It wasn’t even rag bag worthy, at that point!! See ya!
Now, we aren’t suffocating in towels anymore!! But still have plenty, just in case the leaky skylight floods the bathroom! (again)
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Single Socks Seeking Solemates
(S)jen’s sad, sad story of single socks seeking “sole”mates swamping her space. (Sorry, about spoiling your name Jen, alliteration made me do it!) {Also, did you catch that stealthy, yet shameless self-promotion, since that post was dedicated to me??}
Suddenly a solution springs to mind skull!
This is Jen from Hidden Hoarder. We had a thing, going back and forth about ALL her socks being single. I joked with her, about setting up a singles sox society, to help them find their “sole” mate. Also, I joked about wanting to meet her peg-legged child.
(Annnnd that’s as far as I’ve gotten. No real solution sprang to mind, it was just a great sentence!!)
Months later:
We just got rid of approx. a million of our own single sox, without a single pix to prove it. Nooooo!! How could I have forgotten about this half written post, just hanging in limbo- waiting to be fleshed out????
Also, immediately after we got rid of all the unmatched baby sox, I saw a single socks baby quilt, on Pinterest or somewhere! Are you kiddin me??????
So, then I had to go find this one, since I didn’t remember where I saw the first one.
Argh!
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Eight Eighths
Since I went to all the trouble of coming up with Eight Eighths, I might as well use it!!
The non-series-named series on the 8 house so far:
De-Clutter, De-claim, De-cline
De-clutter, De-claim, De-cline, De-clusion
Still in the 8 house, which I will be for at least a year. Thank you lease!!
Working in my room, selfishly!!
Here’s where I started, in the first round.
(Pretty sure that 3rd pic, is not the original starting point for that corner, but ah well, not going back and searching more!)
And now I’m having lots of error codes, trying to upload more pix, so no more of that frustration, right now. Argghh!!
So now that I’m all aggravated, I need to switch activities to something more aggressive, like hand shredding tree branches, or something, to shed my anger!
But, will probably settle for de-cluttering the sink room counter.
Back in a bit. Go ahead, and get a snack. It might be awhile.
Which it was, and the sink project gave me great satisfaction! Then I even sat down, and uploaded those pix, and wrote the aforementioned post, D,D,D, De-clusion. Now why?? WHY did those pix load, but not the earlier ones??? Why hatest thou me, oh great technology master??
Okay, so I’m gonna try again to upload those pesky pix. Not holding my breath!!
First box I came to was papers. Papers that needed to have been shredded many moons ago!
Now I’m working on it!! Guess I finally got my Roun-tuit!!
- Let’s see if I really do??
A bit old.
Paperwork Reduction Act????
I got my disability in 2012.
Do you see that 2nd pic?? Paperwork Reduction Act?? Dear mercy!! How many more tons of trees gave their life BEFORE this Act???
Anyway, most of them were beginning in 2009, when I filed for my disability for the last time, ranging up to 2012, when I received it. Way too old, and irrelevant now! Buh, bye paper!! And good riddance to that ream of it!
Feels good to get rid of it!! Finally!
And yes, that is a Steak n Shake cup. What?? I had to keep hydrated!
Then I found some more trash, in the form of extraneous files.
5th graders were my nemesis!
My Baptism certificate, as an adult. Old classroom pix, while I was teaching. Those kids’ faces haunt me in my nightmares- I really don’t need the physical reminders!!
Yay!! An utility bill that was a credit!! But did I really need to keep it to remember it??
An utility bill, with a credit on it!! Woo hoo!!! And monthly recaps of my prescriptions, from 2 years ago. I think it’s safe to shed them now!!
Yeah, that’s me, 30 something years, and over a hundred pounds ago. That girl’s gone.
Modeling head shot cards, no longer needed. I did get 1 modeling gig, a TV commercial!! It was for a V-loop, circle antenna. It played so often on the local channel, that one of my cousins called me up, and said “I’m sick of seeing your face on my TV!” I hadn’t even been aware it was playing yet!! Thanks for the heads up, cuz! And I still have the VHS somewhere, I think. Wanna come over for a private screening, and some popcorn?? (Absolutely no etchings involved!)
Even some real physical trash:
Trash!! Woo hoo!! No, yo may not comment about the empty brownie box.
Broken bin, staple puller- that I have not used even once in the 9 years since I last taught, extra mug. Those ink stains- who has time to clean?? My mom, apparently! She rescued it from the trash. Once a hoarder (better stop now, if I want to stay alive. Sometimes Sis shows her my posts!!)
Trash!! Woo hoo!! No, you may not comment about the empty brownie box.
So, ends my first room purge, in the eighth house, of the rising sun. Oh wait, that doesn’t sound quite right….
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Seven Seconds Severe
Ok, this is the last post in the Seven Seconds Series. I promise!!
Seven Seconds Scullery Scaffolding
Seven Seconds Scullery Second Scraping
SS Scullery Scrapings, Scobblelotcher
Seven Seconds Severe- we’re here
After 20 Seven Seconds’ posts, I have now officially pared down my house, to the bone!! I can unequivocally say that I literally can not purge another thing. *gasp!!*
How dare you say that??
It’s easy! My house is completely empty! See?? That’s how I dare!
Okay, a few little things still need to go, but I think ya get the drift!
Okay, ya got me! I can pare down 1 more thing!! I promise it’s coming with us!
Empty kitchen!!! Just the lonely title, hanging around, waiting for its new owner! (And ya KNOW I had to leave some tp– for humanitarian reasons!!)
Empty pantry!! Give a shout, if you get sick of reading the word “empty”!!
Bathroom is all emptied out!
Sad sisters’ scene
Say what?? Was all sisters’ stuff stolen??
My room, empty as I could leave it. Yes, I did leave my black computer desk. I hate it, and the new owner might need it!
I should have left every last drawer hanging out, just for the photo op! lol
Here’s the really, completely, totally empty pix!!
Clean carport.
poor porch
woeful workshop
leveled living room
klean kitchen
Except for the scooter. I told XH to push it outside, so trash pick up will get it. He will, after a restorative nap! No more small stuff in living room. High chair high jacked!!
Remember when I said I let the cat out of the bag, about moving?? Well, now you see proof that I am indeed moving. Where to, is still to be determined. For right now, Rose’s couch will be my humble abode. Rose is so wonderful! She didn’t want me sleeping in the van, so she offered me refuge.
DD1 and I had a plan for a place, but it fell thru, and the other plan is still in the works, so…….. I’m now a hip, young couch surfer! Except, my hip isn’t young anymore! Oh, my aching back!
Thankfully!! SF came to the rescue, with his offer of a real bed!! He has a guest room, and I just happen to need to be a guest for right now!! Serendipitous!
Getting my beauty rest, on a Beauty Rest.
What is wrong with you anyway, Melinda?? Whatever do you mean? And in what context? Why are you moving all the time?? Ever since you left XH, in July 2013, you can’t stay still! Well, each time, I think I’m doing the best thing by moving.
From the apt to Home Sweet Home was to be on my own.
To the next place, was to have more room for the girls!
Now, I’m moving to escape the tyranny of old busybodies who have nothing better to do, than complain about my darling babies! And their toys! And their noise!
Seriously, am I the only one in here who ever has grandchildren to visit them????
I didn’t even track how long it took to pack up, and completely empty the house. I think that wouldn’t be fair, since it’s far beyond the scope of just de-cluttering!!
So the totally total time we ended up with was: 24 hrs and 38 mins. So incredible, that I STILL had so much clutter!! smh After almost 2 years of decluttering now! To be real, I kept bringing stuff in, or I would have been done long ago! But, I truly think I have changed my mind set now. Too many things is not a good thing. I want to enjoy my life, and the people in my life. Not waste my life on things. Plus! I have stopped shopping, almost totally, since Christmas! So, there’s that.
Of course, ya know I’ll keep ya up to date on my life, whatever happens. I’m just moving houses, not like I’m quitting blogging, or anything!
Yay!! As of May 10, we have our new place!! Moving in on the weekend!
Pix to come very soon!!
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