I just decluttered 1/3 of my garage...ask me anything

[KitchenWitch]

I am on a decluttering mission. I figure if I can spend about an hour a day decluttering, I should be through my house and garage in a couple of weeks.

I am going to be getting rid of stuff, because I feel like I am drowning in it.

[mainegreen]

1. Did you just pile stuff up in the remaining 2/3rds?

:D

[KitchenWitch]

5. No

Brought some stuff into the house that belongs in the house. Put stuff in recycling and trash cans that belonged there. Put the stuff I am ridding myself of along the wall, to be donated to the next charity that is coming around to pick up.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Will you be Craig-listing stuff?...or...?

Just curious, Nosy Nelly that I am :P


If I have to move again, I know I will be minus A LOT of things I have now.

Am holding another garage sale either this weekend or next.
Never advertise...just put up signs..the shoppers always show up.

[KitchenWitch]

6. I am donating to a local women's shelter - they periodically come around

and pick up.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Say, I need a place to store some stuff....

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

4. that would be a NO!

:rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Funny, I keep trying to pull this stunt on my dad too. But I have slightly better luck there

:P

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear KitchenWitch!

Ask you anything...

How come my brain can't think of anything to ask you? :crazy:

[KitchenWitch]

28. Not sure!

:D

[Parche]

9. Are Your Services For Rent?

:woohoo: :woohoo:

I have bottles and cans to pack up and recycle!!

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

29. I charge $50 an hour!

And any recycling, I get the proceeds from!

:D

[RainDog]

10. I'm still on that mission from ohmygawd

as in ohmygawd, I cannot believe I still have all this stuff.

my younger son and I went through all his stuff/room and decluttered/sorted. his room is so neat I feel sort of dizzy when I see it. I told him the two of us would have to help his older brother - who is a total packrat and who has problems getting organized/sorted b/c of his aspergers. I know he still has a 3-d five foot whale made out of paper that he did for a project when he was in elementary school. rather than clean off his desk, he's been going into my room with his laptop so he's not sitting on the floor while he's online.

I also sorted out a brazillion papers from grad school. I have to save some stuff. some not.

but, until I can get my stuff sorted for a garage sale, the garage sale is in my garage. I'm hoping for next weekend. I have to check the weather first and get through my son's room.

[Bullwinkle925]

11. Might I PM you my address????

:evilgrin: :toast:

[KitchenWitch]

27. I charge $50 an hour!

:evilgrin:

[Bullwinkle925]

31. worth it to me . . .

i don't know where to begin . . .


i'm overwhelmed.

[KitchenWitch]

32. Yeah, I know how that goes.

I totally just bit the bullet today and started. I figure if I put in 1-2 hours a day on decluttering my house, I should be decluttered sometime in the next two weeks. That would make me very happy.

[Bullwinkle925]

33. me too . . .

it definitely *weighs* on me. i have to get out of my doldrums and just do it!

[WinkyDink]

12. I tried that last year. The only things I tossed were the tomato cages I could have used THIS year.

[MrScorpio]

13. Find Jimmy Hoffa?

What about D.B. Cooper?

[KitchenWitch]

30. No, but I believe I may find Amelia Earhart and her plane later this week.

[ThomCat]

14. Well, get to work on the other 2/3

x(

:P

[KitchenWitch]

34. I am, eventually!

:P

I can really only do 1-2 hours a day right now, with the heat and my "issues" (:eyes: I get really annoyed with my limitations).

So, I figure it is going to take a couple of weeks to tackle my entire house.

[ThomCat]

38. Be careful. Those "issues" hurt like hell.

:(

Be well. :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

39. I will.

:hug:

I am getting better at listening to my body when it is telling me to stop. Some people would probably say that I am lazy... but I can only do so much before it hurts me to the point of not being able to do anything for a week. I figure I am better off doing a little at a time every day, than a monumental amount and not able to do anything else for a long period of time.

Can you tell I am really annoyed with myself and my problems?

[ThomCat]

41. I understand that annoyance.

I have a nephew cooking and cleaning for me because I can't anymore. x(

I hate not being able to do stuff. But we endure...

[malta blue]

15. what time shall I expect you to do mine - I'll provide dinner.

:D

[KitchenWitch]

36. MMM Dinner.

You can expect me in Mid-July!

:D

[TheManInTheMac]

16. I'm right there with you.

My wife loves the thrift stores. Over the last five years, my basement and garage got filled with stuff. Not junk, it was good stuff. Like a dozen or so of the same casserole dishes, Tupperware serving containers, furniture (two, count 'em, two dinettes), sometimes exercise equipment that was never used, and on and on and on.
Over Memorial Day weekend and the weekend after that, we had a yard sale. Got $700 out of it and we still have stuff to get rid of.
I like money as much as the next fat person, but I loved getting rid of that stuff even more. It was win/win.

[CatholicEdHead]

17. Keep the snowblower you brought from MN

And of course any Twins stuff ;)

[KitchenWitch]

21. Never had a snowblower in MN!

Of course I am keeping the Twins stuff!

:D

[Symarip]

18. If you find an Atari 5600

I call dibs.

[Robeson]

19. Will you come over and help declutter ours?...

...:D

[Adsos Letter]

20. Did you find Osama bin Laden...?

Our garage was such a mess for awhile that I could swear he could operate, undetected, from it. Would have explained the missing snacks...

[kath]

22. oh, gack, I am the queen of clutter - do you have a special technique, or

a book you read that got you motivated?

HEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPP!

[KitchenWitch]

24. No, I just got sick of pulling into the garage and looking at the mess

I still have about 5 hours to go in there.

[kath]

25. whoa - even before, you could *pull into* the garage? You mean, with a car?

Ours you can barely walk through. :-(

[KitchenWitch]

26. Yes. I can pull into it.

But it is a two car garage, and I was barely able to walk around the van when I parked in the garage.

[greenbriar]

23. have a yard/garage/rummage sale....They are awesome

and an easy way to make money

[KitchenWitch]

35. I do not have the patience to do a yard sale.

I will give the stuff I want out to charity. I could use the money, but I really do not want the hassle.

[Arugula Latte]

37. No question, but just want to say

that getting rid of stuff is the best feeling in the world! :woohoo:

[KitchenWitch]

40. I know.

Just being able to see the floor in the section of the garage I got done today makes me feel really good.

[applegrove]

42. I just decluttered my crawl space and I feel great about it.