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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Spring Cleaning...
Lately I’ve been doing some Spring cleaning and getting rid of things I don’t need, use or wear. And with the help of some friends I cleaned out my garage. Boy what a mess my garage was! But after two trips to the dump, I reduced the amount of junk I had by a hundred percent. Seriously I probably kept 4 boxes total.
The garage was like an all day treasure hunt. There was stuff in there that I haven’t seen or thought of in years. We even found a box of wedding stuff from my wedding, which went right in the trash. Seriously, why was I hanging on to wedding stuff?
What I kept was a few items I might try to sell on ebay and a few items from my childhood and tax documents from my old business that I can’t get rid of yet.
And guess what was hiding behind some of the boxes in the garage... kittens! Two of those annoying kittens had gotten in my garage and were hiding behind boxes. They ran like crazy when we moved this big box. We caught those annoying kittens and marched them over to my little old cat lady neighbor's front porch and left them there. I swear those annoying cats are everywhere!
After the garage I moved onto my house. Gutted the closet of all things I don’t wear, including sadly, all of the heels I can’t wear anymore because of my knees. I’ve hung onto them the past few years hoping I’d be able to wear heels again. But I’ve finally accepted the fact that heels will only be a dream for me. So out they went. Bags of shoes! I tell you it broke my heart to get rid of my heels.
I also got rid of a bunch of knick-knacks I don’t have room for in this house I’m living in now. And donated tons of things to Dirty Spanglish’s yard sale.
I’m sure I have tons more I could get rid of and probably will when the mood hits me again. But one thing this Spring cleaning has done is make me “into” my house again. I have nice furniture and nice things and I’m in the mood to finish decorating my house again. I’ve even got my eye on some new art from a local artist!
Maybe I should do Spring cleaning more often because then I can get new things!
Lately I’ve been doing some Spring cleaning and getting rid of things I don’t need, use or wear. And with the help of some friends I cleaned out my garage. Boy what a mess my garage was! But after two trips to the dump, I reduced the amount of junk I had by a hundred percent. Seriously I probably kept 4 boxes total.
The garage was like an all day treasure hunt. There was stuff in there that I haven’t seen or thought of in years. We even found a box of wedding stuff from my wedding, which went right in the trash. Seriously, why was I hanging on to wedding stuff?
What I kept was a few items I might try to sell on ebay and a few items from my childhood and tax documents from my old business that I can’t get rid of yet.
And guess what was hiding behind some of the boxes in the garage... kittens! Two of those annoying kittens had gotten in my garage and were hiding behind boxes. They ran like crazy when we moved this big box. We caught those annoying kittens and marched them over to my little old cat lady neighbor's front porch and left them there. I swear those annoying cats are everywhere!
After the garage I moved onto my house. Gutted the closet of all things I don’t wear, including sadly, all of the heels I can’t wear anymore because of my knees. I’ve hung onto them the past few years hoping I’d be able to wear heels again. But I’ve finally accepted the fact that heels will only be a dream for me. So out they went. Bags of shoes! I tell you it broke my heart to get rid of my heels.
I also got rid of a bunch of knick-knacks I don’t have room for in this house I’m living in now. And donated tons of things to Dirty Spanglish’s yard sale.
I’m sure I have tons more I could get rid of and probably will when the mood hits me again. But one thing this Spring cleaning has done is make me “into” my house again. I have nice furniture and nice things and I’m in the mood to finish decorating my house again. I’ve even got my eye on some new art from a local artist!
Maybe I should do Spring cleaning more often because then I can get new things!
Labels: annoying cats, ebay, Hooker heels, shoes, Spring Cleaning
