Feeling Accomplished!

Today's Victories:

10+ years of tax returns ready to shred.

Huge bag and two boxes of recycling we can't fit in the bin yet.  I love filling it up every other week as we make steady progress on getting stuff sorted out before the move.

3 boxes of books to be donated to the library.

2 boxes of books to be donated to my friend's daughter who is collecting children's books for kids in Foster care.

4 basketballs, 4 sets of tire cables/chains (no idea why we have so many), duffle bags, backpacks, linens, comforters, roller skates, tennis rackets, baseball gloves, some ceramic planters and 4 solar light globes ready to donate.

Recycle bin full of miscellaneous plastics, etc. .

Trash bin pretty full with junk we tossed.

To Do:

Trip to library to donate the books.  Too bad we found out they don't accept vinyl records?  'cuz we have a couple hundred or so to get rid of.

J. will make a trip to Rasputin Records in Modesto which will offer him $10 for the albums.  We'll take whatever they offer at this point 'cuz we need to get them out of the house.

Trip to donation - likely the one in Tracy.  I'm itching to play slots so want to head to Jackson?  But it's likely we will be traveling to CC next month so I'm saving my fun $ for that trip.

Wait for trash and recycle pickup on Wednesday morning so we can do it again next weekend.

Take shred stuff to Fed Ex store and pay 99 cents a pound to get it all shredded.  Why store it until the city has another free event?  Out, damn shred.  OUT!

Call Salvation Army to arrange for donated furniture pickup.  Items include:  queen size bed; trundle bed; armoire, dresser, TV stand, heavy standing mirror, two shelf 'towers', a couple glass door display cases.

Talk to B. about his drums.  They are in the rafters and in the garage and we need to make some decisions about what to do with them.  We can and will move them for him if he wants...but he's thought about selling them so we'll see what he thinks.

Next Cull: 

CD's, DVDs and VHS tapes.

Kitchen drawers cleaned out.

Debating about possibly selling most of my Cow Parade figurines.  Most of the boxes for them are up in the rafters of the garage.  I like them but I don't love them anymore - so they might not make the list to transport to CC.


We both felt accomplished - we managed some inertia and got some things out of the garage.  The shelving these items were stored on are plastic and they are now bowed from the weight.  We will be breaking them down and recycling them over the next six weeks or so - our recycle pick up is every other week.

It's just after 5PM and I feel like I desperately need a nap.  I'll power through.  My desk is a wreck and I really need to tackle it a bit.

I'm going to the office for a few hours tomorrow - but will continue to make progress around the homestead.  Might be able to come up with another box or two of books to donate.  And we have some boxes of books we can move out to the garage to move with us - I started to put them 'away' - they were in the kids' room when they moved here and they took all the shelves down - but it seemed silly to put them away only to pack them up again in 12 months - so we're going to just label them 'keep - books - move to CC' and start stacking stuff up in the corner we are cleaning out.  Then we'll have an area dedicated to gathering the things we can start moving to storage in CC in Spring.

This is really happening.  I feel like I have to pinch myself - but it is really happening!