January 8, 2004
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a hour of sheer terror.
So, the first day of being house-bound we got our adoption respite check. I placed it where I always did, and figured I'd deposit it when the roads cleared. Our balance was enough to be able to do this.
Today I went to find it, and it was gone.
Turned the house upside down. Rob went through the last weeks garbage (eww). And we prayed.
I kept looking, cleaned off the top of my fridge...(maybe a babysitter put it up their and forgot to tell us) continued to do things like that. But I KNEW I had put it on my puter desk, and I've really worked at keeping it cleaned off.
Rob finally headed to bed for the day, and I continued to scramble. Finally I started looking through the wardrobe where my school stuff, craft stuff etc is stored. As I was puttering through their, and its really quite organized due to my cleaning frenzy I remember putting all those broken picture frames on my desk and sorting through them.....
I went to the shelf where I'd put the pictures I'd kept from inside them, and wa-la one check.
PHEW..........
And the saga to get rid of junk continues. I just spent $10 at biglots and now have all of my pictures that aren't in albums sorted by year in plastic containers. They were already sorted, just needed a easy to grab home, so I can get them into albums. (some day) The containers also hold my scrapbooking stuffies. Its nice to be able to go to a cupboard and immediately grab what you want.
It also helps avoid the whole search the house for a check thing.
(ha)
I also re-sorted my wardrobe and was even more ruthless then I was 3 months ago. Why am I keeping those old calendars with the pretty pictures???? And some art work of the kiddos that was just cluttering up space, and even some art work of mine, that I just don't like. Gone, gone, gone.
I'm ruthless, I'm on a mission. *snigger*
I have two shelves of Star Trek Generation books in my van to go to charity. and two shelves of heart song romance books.....haven't reread them in two years, have no intention of ever rereading them. Gone, gone, gone!
Look out, I'm purging. *giggles*
The next purge will be my china cabinet, and some cheapy nic-naks that have no sentimental value.....and collect a ton of dust.
It feels good to simplify!
Comments (6)
Isn't purging wonderful. I have the urge to also, and have been ruthless as well. This is so not my nature. Maybe you are rubbing off.
Oh you purging lady you! I sold ALL of my Heartsongs in a garage sale. It was so fabulous to tell a searching father that his daughters could read those books and know they were fabulous, Christ-bound and well-done for the most part. I sold a box of 'em for about $5. LOL.
I have a few pretty calendars. Gonna ebay 'em when I find 'em. After that they'll just go in a garage sale I'm planning for late summer.
I divide my daughters' pictures between the grandfolks -- three places to go now and it's lovely. I know they're appreciated. I keep a few for myself, but it's so nice to share the extras.
And it's sooo nice to purge.
soudns alarmingly like nesting to me....
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You've got me purging too!
Noooooooo, don't get rid of the Star Trek books, you can always send them to me pweeease
I'm decluttering right there with you!
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