Moving? My De-junking adventure.

Yep we are moving.

This is both an exciting and scary time for us to say the least.
Excitement over a grand new adventure and opportunities that have been given to us.
Scary over the unknown of what we are stepping into.

This is a huge process for me.  I save stuff. LOTS OF IT.... so needless to say in order to make this move so much smother I need to purge stuff....and Lots of it.  I have resolved after today never to save that much stuff ever again.  Yes you heard it here.  Cleaning all this stuff and pitching it is a stressful event for me.  Today I cleaned the closet under the stairs.  My kids throw every toy imaginable in there.  MY FAULT for not making them take care of it to begin with.  This little closet that is 5 x 4 feet was crammed to the gills.  Not anymore though.  It took a good 2 hours to sort stuff out.  We kept legos, lincoln logs, and metal cars/trucks/tractors.  Every thing else literally went into a garbage bag....

Pencils, pens, marbles, magz, cards, puzzles, and numerous other items gone to the garbage.  Why so ruthless you say. Well because my inability to effectively deal with this stuff caused the problem in the first place.  Most of the pieces to these things are missing or somewhere else.  I am chronicling my de-cluttering adventure in hopes that it will help someone else. I will tell you that I have ruthlessly been throwing out old clothes with rips or stains as well. I listed a couple items online for free and the people actually want me to bring the free items to them and not pick them up......garbage can as well.  Goodwill you say....hahahaha ..... nice in theory but I have several boxes in my garage that have never made it there.

So you say .... what remains in the closet under the stairs..... Some stuffed animals ( they boys were told once they are all gathered they may each pick out 5) 2 vacuums , some blankets and a toy box full of little people toys that a girl is coming to pick up when I get back from Illinois next Tuesday.

So I invite you to laugh with me, cry with me and go on this grand adventure of moving and de-junking.  I hope you can find humor in it.  I hope one day I will also.