Life of Wry

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Purgeday!

One of the benefits of my recent insomnia is lots of time to come up with brilliant ideas to better organize my life, or our house and stuff, or whatever. I forget so many of these brilliant ideas by the time I wake up (after finally falling asleep), but I remembered this one!

I have a few shelves, drawers, closets that are bulging at the seams and it’s making me kinda crazy. So I decided that on Thursday of each week, I’d commit to filling one large garbage bag with some of that excess stuff — any room, any closet — and take it to Goodwill. If I feel so compelled, I can fill more than one, but at the very least: one bag a week.

So today, this being Thursday, I started. As luck would have it, we are out of large black garbage bags. Boo. So for this week, I used regular old shopping bags. Before all was said and done, I’d filled FOUR of those regular old shopping bags. Yay me!

Dozens of tee shirts, some pajamas, canvas totes… all donated to Goodwill this afternoon. (Actually SPCA on 3rd St).

Fingers crossed this continues!

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I was also taking a full trunk of stuff that Maria and I sorted out from the emptying of David’s public storage space. That was a big job. She had emptied the last of his things on Tuesday, and yesterday we sorted his belongings into 1) recycle, 2) save, 3) toss, 4) donate. She took the “save” items home yesterday and I offered to take all items for donation to the SPCA .. which I did today. Sad process.