The Purge

Giggidy Giggidy Giggidy! I feel GREAT!

Yesterday I went through my house like a mad woman armed with garbage bags and threw away (recycling when I could) TEN bags of trash from my house. Just absolute crap.

A.MAZE.ING.

I cannot believe how much stuff this house was holding. And still is, I might add.

the room with by far the most crap were the bathrooms: 1/8th full shampoo, conditioner, lotion bottles. expired vitamins and medicine. I think about 10 of those infant Motrin and Tylenol syringes. Empty cleaner bottles, old sponges, empty makeup. old bath toys. Hotel shampoo, lotion, soaps. You name it.

I also went through the girls toys and got rid of "happy meal" level toys, like a single toy poodle, or those 2 blocks left from a set of 20 (what happened to the other 18 I do not know), those toys that neither girl ever got into.

clothes is a tough one. Because you always have that "welllll, I might need this again" in the back of your head...Chad had a whole shelf of clothes he hadn't touched in a couple years. So I went over and just threw them all in a bag for donation without even looking...okay, I admit I pulled out a few items. But other then that...its outa here! I also have a few bags of the girls clothes, but we are saving that for a garage sale.

I am feeling better about the move already.

The garage is a whole nother ball game...Chad is really going to have to work on it. There is just so.much.stuff.

Today I am going to costco to buy some of those vacuum storage bags for our extra linens and pillows.

Anyways I highly recommend the purge: good for the body and soul...even if you aren't moving...you will feel so much better afterwards!