| | I feel like we're really cutting down to the wire. Even though I still have about 2 1/2 months before Baby arrives, my nesting senses are kicking in and I'm in a constant state of anxiety about the state of the baby room. It's nice to have deadlines to help get our butts in gear and know that by a certain date, we have to paint the room, so by a certain date, we need to clean all the crap out of there. These past 4 years since we've lived there, that room has been a big storage room. We shoved all the stuff that we didn't want to look at in that space. We just assumed that if it's "out of sight", it's "out of mind". Well, now it IS "on our mind" and we can't ignore the mess. Every single item in that room must be cleaned out. And where does it all go? We have no more space to shove it. True, there is some storage space in the garage, but what it comes down to, is "what stuff do we REALLY need"? And the reality is, not much. That stuff has been out of our sight for 4 years (some even longer - we just transported it from our old house) and we did fine without it. I don't want to shove more junk into the garage and just keep displacing it, which is what happened when we last moved.
Last night, 3 bags of trash were disposed, but it looked like hardly a dent was made. Why did we keep these things for all these years? I have a feeling that many more bags will visit the landfill. Books are going to be donated. E-waste will be taken care of. We found enough pencils, lined paper, graph paper, pens, hi-lighters, tape, other school supplies that will last our kids until college. I did allow Garrett to keep his Super Nintendo games. He believes they will be collector's items - he still had the console, although he threw it out cause it was definitely broken. We also created a little box for his Chicago White Sox 2005 World Series memorabilia (newspaper clippings, ticket stubs, etc).
It's time to organize and start anew, and to stop buying "stuff".
-NL
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| | Posted 3/25/2009 12:53 PM - 68 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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