115 Days to Go

This evening I found a half full garbage bag (the size of a kitchen garbage can) and a partially filled black garbage bag that had been stashed away after my last decluttering spree. The kitchen bag was trash and the black bag was for items to be donated. I worked in our "office/workroom" for approximately one hour. During that time I filled the trash bag, put more items into the donation bag, rearranged some heavy plastic tubs (put them onto a little "truck"/ dolley thing*) and labeld the outside of them. I emptied one box that was a quarter full of miscellaneous items. I threw away used posterboards, scrap pieces of Christmas wrapping paper and some packing material (things I used to save ... until tonight). I also made the decision to deal once and for all with some items that were making me feel guilty.

This past July, my daughter had her 16th birthday. At our family party for her we played some games that I came up with: Julianne Trivia, Julianne Word Search and the Julianne Word Game. The night of the party we were having so much fun that we ran out of time before the winners of these "contests" could be determined. I had three little winners cups (one for each game). I told everyone that I would take the papers home and I'd go over them myself and award the prizes. And here they were ... still in the bags inside a box I had put them in. Every other time I would see them I would feel a pang of guilt for not wrapping up the results long ago. TONIGHT I decided that enough was enough. At this point NO ONE would even remember and I was THROUGH with feeling guilty. I disposed of all the papers (that is, except for the ones that I will scrapbook).

In the kitchen I purged some old sippie cups that my grandchildren are too old for. I made room on the counter for my bread box I found in the office/workroom. Now we have a place to put the bread that had been on the table : )

* If I could I would put wheels under just about everything. Love to be able to just push something out of the way or move it around the house! I had my husband build a ramp from our office/workroom (where my scrapbooking supplies are) into the dining room so that I can wheel them out and then roll them back when I'm finished.