Everything Under the Son

Have I mentioned here that we are moving? Yeah, we are moving. For the first four years of our marriage, Nathaniel and I moved every year. It was work, but NOTHING like this time around. Let's just say that having been in one place for several years, and adding two children's things to the mix makes for some serious JUNK!!

I am cleaning out as I go. My new motto may just be, "Moving every few years is cleansing for the home". I know that as I am touching EVERY.SINGLE.ITEM in our home, I am considering whether or not it is worth keeping. Folks, I have too much JUNK!! I am accumulating quite the stack of trash, and it feels so good. Crazy, I know, but it does...it feels so good to be purging stuff we don't need anymore. You should really try it sometime! By the way, yes, this move is really feeding my love of all things organized. The joy I will get from giving everything a 'home' in our new home is going to be pure bliss...sigh :)

On that note, if I am absent from this little corner of the blogosphere for a bit, now you know why. I have locked myself in the new house and am having the time of my life cleaning and unpacking and putting everything in it's proper place! Hooray for moving!

I'm still waiting for the "great pictures" you spoke of in your last BLOG. I'm having withdrawls and need a kid fix even if pictures is all I can get right now.

I love to organize too. A new place does call for all things to have a place. I'm so happy for the new blessing in your life. A NEW HOME. I have plenty of paint rollers if you need to have a painting party. CONGRATULATIONS

Try moving to a new town, 2 months later moving into the house you purchased, 6 months later flooding and moving the undamaged belongings into your garage or to an apartment, 2 months later moving from apartment to other house, then 2 months later moving 'home' -- exactly one year after you first moved to town. I came to realize how little of that junk that I was hauling around I needed! Toss, toss, toss. Come to think of it, it's been 6 years -- may be time for a move or a flood! :-) NOOOOoooooooooooo!

YEAH for your new home! Hope we get some pics soon.

My question is, "How do you dispose of stuff?"

Some of the stuff is too good to just toss in the trash. So you decide to sell it in a Garage Sale. But then you have to store it until you have you get around to having the sale, so you still haven't gotten rid of it. So you decide to give it away to Goodwill, but then you have to either make a bunch of little trips as you find things, or put them all in a stack, which winds up sitting until you've forgotten what's in the stack. If you offer it on Freecycle, you have to keep track of what's been offered and who gets what and wait for the person to come get it and then re-offer it when they bail out on picking it up. And then there's the stuff that you know you don't need now, but you might next year, so you really hate to let go of it.

Oh, perhaps you have to be an organizer?

Anne, will you come clean my stuff out?