Purging
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 by Amy
I took 7 TRASH BAGS full of kids clothes to ARC yesterday. I packed a 16" cube box of 2T and size 5 clothes to send to Abby and Vera, and the smaller stuff I packed to send to Sarah, which came to 2 16" cube boxes. Poor Tyler will be naked while his sister Kayla is dressed to the nines LOL! The rest went to ARC. Seven bags, people! I found my spring stuff, and some summer stuff for Riley and Avery from last year. I bought Riley 5s and 6s last summer, so half of her clothes should still fit. Fingers crossed! I also found some of Riley's old 3T clothes that Avery is thrilled about. I haven't even gone through my stuff yet, or Rudi's, and I'm sure we'll have more to donate. Avery really needs very little in order to be happy. She is VERY picky about her clothes, but she doesn't need a large selection. Mostly she'll only wear the skirts that I make for her and some dresses.
I also went through my boxes of fabric. I saved two pieces, TWO! Out of two boxes of fabric, I saved two cuts. Granted, my "active" stash isn't in the garage, but rather in the "sewing corner" in my bedroom, but still, I got rid of a lot. There is a charity group that meets at our local quilt shop to make quilts for homeless or hospitalized children, so I'm donating to them. Of course, I kept the colors that Mom requested for her quilt. Wow, I have a lot to take to the post office!
So, I have a hypothetical-but-really-not-hypothetical question. If you had a pack rat husband who has been dragging the same boxes from house to house, never opening them inbetween and you know for a FACT that he would never notice, would you throw them out? I think we have about two boxes of his shoes that he has never even peered in for 7 years. He has clothes in his closet that are still in the boxes we moved them in. So, what do you think? Get rid of them? Is that a betrayal of trust, or a do-what-you-gotta-do kind of thing?
We are trying to rent a smaller truck than we used last time, but we have more furniture (like the bunkbeds) and too much crap in general. There are some things that need to be replaced and will not survive another move, like the stand for the stereo. We can just buy another and leave it in the box and moving it in a box will take up a fraction of the space. Same with our dishes. They are terrible! We'll probably toss them and buy new right before the move and keep them in the box. That kind of stuff. But seriously, my goal is to get rid of half of our belongings. We just have too much junk.
I also went through my boxes of fabric. I saved two pieces, TWO! Out of two boxes of fabric, I saved two cuts. Granted, my "active" stash isn't in the garage, but rather in the "sewing corner" in my bedroom, but still, I got rid of a lot. There is a charity group that meets at our local quilt shop to make quilts for homeless or hospitalized children, so I'm donating to them. Of course, I kept the colors that Mom requested for her quilt. Wow, I have a lot to take to the post office!
So, I have a hypothetical-but-really-not-hypothetical question. If you had a pack rat husband who has been dragging the same boxes from house to house, never opening them inbetween and you know for a FACT that he would never notice, would you throw them out? I think we have about two boxes of his shoes that he has never even peered in for 7 years. He has clothes in his closet that are still in the boxes we moved them in. So, what do you think? Get rid of them? Is that a betrayal of trust, or a do-what-you-gotta-do kind of thing?
We are trying to rent a smaller truck than we used last time, but we have more furniture (like the bunkbeds) and too much crap in general. There are some things that need to be replaced and will not survive another move, like the stand for the stereo. We can just buy another and leave it in the box and moving it in a box will take up a fraction of the space. Same with our dishes. They are terrible! We'll probably toss them and buy new right before the move and keep them in the box. That kind of stuff. But seriously, my goal is to get rid of half of our belongings. We just have too much junk.
I would TOSS those unopened boxes OUT! Don't even open them! He'll never notice. ;P