After several slow weeks...and an odd sort of plateau, I'm back on track. I had two items picked up by bulk trash this week: an old, huge gross litter box tray and I finally got rid of one of my IKEA pieces. I had a storage unit that has traveled to four different homes, and was on the verge of falling apart. For years (at least 10!) I couldn't bring myself to get rid of it.
Finally--I decided that it was taking up entirely too much space in my small office. I emptied out the contents (still working on getting rid of the stuff that was inside--did a first good effort to cull out what was in it) and the unit is now GONE. It fell apart on me as I was moving it outside--it was time to go.
I just posted some folks on Craigslist who were looking for rugs--I've got two or three that need to go. I'm debating about donating some furniture to a family burned out by a fire. I see a lot of those listings but it's hard to know which ones are legitimate. (some, sadly... aren't. even sadder: some are)
I also started to go through stacks of old papers, and took the plunge: am doing my very first paperless bill pay. big leap of faith for me. we'll see how it goes. My shred pile is two feet high right now!
I also returned a big bunch of my disaster team uniforms. I've switched teams, and even though they said I could keep the uniforms, they didn't fit me right, and I didn't need all these uniforms with my old team name on them, so I donated them to other team members. Another big step.
I think it helped watching that show "Hoarders"...made me realize how far I've come, and how I don't want to go back to that life.
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