A Still Life

I’m going to keep a running log here of progress on this packing up project. I sense a more organized house and basement by January 31. Good deal!

What I’m ditching in January 2012:

Day 1: No longer used Christmas items as boxes are being packed and put away for next year.
Day 2: Ditto. We have twelve years of Christmas decorations and gifted decor items that need another home.
Day 3: Ditto. Unused, unwanted, unnecessary Christmas schwag.
Day 4: Junk mail & school papers scattered on assorted surfaces for recycling or trash. That shouldn’t count. And it’s still on the dining room table.
Day 4: Bag of clothes to pass along to a friend.
Day 5: Large framed poster we no longer hang in our dining room.
Day 6: Side table from the basement (that will really just move to my office at church, but it’s out of the house.)
Day 7: Super large box of clothes I no longer wear (style is changing/size has changed).
Day 8: Finally packed Christmas boxes of small gifts to mail to Alabama
Day 9: and to Georgia
Day 10: Box of baby items to brother and sister-in-law
Day 11: Box of cloth diapers to brother and sister-in-law
Day 12: Box of baby boy clothing to brother and sister-in-law
Day 13: Assorted glasses in the basement; to Salvation Army
Day 14: Assorted bags & lampshades in basement; to Salvation Army
Day 15: VHS tapes & DVDs that we will never, ever watch again; to Salvation Army
Day 16: Camping/yoga mats (not sure which) and an old scale; to Salvation Army
Day 17: A couple of years’ worth of cooking magazines…which I inherited from a neighbor; to recycling