Big Day!

Beautiful March day today, so I went into the garage. The garage alone could keep me busy sorting, organizing and purging for a year. Time to get going on it.

So first I could two black binders on the shelf - kinda grungy and I can do without them. And then I found an old metal check file, full of very old cancelled checks. Some were written in the 1980's - the accounts are long-closed, the addresses were from three residences ago. Even the phone number (which remained the same) had an old area code (our area code has changed twice, since then). No need to send them to the shredder. And the file they were in was rusty. Then I found a squirrel-chewed box - old bottles of bubbles, yarn and fun-fair-type prizes (now considered choking hazards) were stored in there. And another squirrel-chewed box had some old smelly blankets (clearly moisture got in there). I also found an old SEDSRA Leadership manual, an old floor lamp glass globe and a plastic planter that were good for nothing.

Finally, I found a box of books - old textbooks that were damp, musty and out of date. Hated throwing away books, but these books had to go. I did, however, rescue an old book of postage stamps. I wish I knew someone who knew the value of postage stamp 'semi-collections' because this one might be worth a few dollars. Research - another job for another day.

Big day for uncluttering - unfortunately, though, only the tip of the iceberg.

Day seventy-one:
Two binders, planter, prizes, bubbles, yarn, lamp globe, and blankets into the garbage.
Checks, check file and books into recycling.