Originally Posted by
niccig
I've been on a delcutter spree. DS goes back to school tomorrow and I go back to work in a week and I could no longer deal with the state of the house. Much to DH and DS's dislike, I'm being a drill sergeant as we sort through things. I have a CRV, so not a huge SUV, but I've filled it up twice in the last week. It's outgrown clothes, toys, things we haven't used since moving into the house 11 years ago (e.g. fondue set given as wedding present). I have a bankers box of paperwork to take to be shredded and have recycled bags of papers. And we're not finished yet. We haven't even started on our bedroom which is often the dumping ground for things. DS has been good about sorting through things and agrees we need to keep things cleaner so we don't have to do this again (remains to be seen how much he'll keep clean without reminders), but DH has more difficult time to let things go. If I hear "maybe we would use this", it goes in donate pile. We have to use it now or have definite plan for use in future. This "maybe" means we hold on to things that we have NO use for and it just gets in way of things we do use. I'm.DONE.DONE.DONE with the junk.
Just wanted to log in to say, "Good for you!!" Doesn't it lift a HUGE weight off your chest? I went through a huge purging phase in November and again in April. DH and I filled up my minivan and his SUV 2-3 times each of us with boxes of toys, clothes, and baby stuff. I felt so good that the night afterward I had a wonderful, heavy sleep. On a much smaller scale I plan to go through my kitchen pantry this fall. And I'd like to weed through some seasonal decorations but most of the hardest cleaning is done.
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"This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn't solve any problems." Martin Luther King, Jr.