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Ok, I'm playing a purging game. Anyone want to play along?
I just went into 3 rooms and forced myself to get rid of 3 things from each room. It was surprisingly easy! Here's what I purged:
Guest room/spare room:
1. Ziploc bag full of scrapbooking markers which are all pretty dried up! Why am I keeping them???
2. A glass snail paperweight that I never liked, but have kept for 15 years. It was given to me by a boss I did not like, from a job I hated... and had bad feelings all around! Be gone!!!
3. A videotape of The Jungle Book. I have two of these. Be gone.
Guest bath
1. A soft water testing kit, left behind by the previous owners. I've kept this, why?
2. An empty bottle of soft-scrub that keeps tipping over when the cabinet is opened ...
3. a small candle in the medicine cabinet, serving no purpose. Gone.
Laundry room
1. Empty bottle of hand sanitizer... was I going to refill this or something???
2. A bottle of Clean Shield, left by the previous owners. They put this on the mirrors in the house and I HATE it... can't use windex, it leaves a film all over. GONE.
3. An empty container of wet ones. What's with all my empty containers ???
What a bunch of junk... anyone else have anything to purge???
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Ill be back in five minutes to tell you what I purged.
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Wow I did that in two minutes,
Here it is
Girls bathroom- a broken hook thats been in the tube for weeks.
a sea shell that been in the drawer for months and a tooth brush holder that never ever gets used.
DD's bedroom- a empty colorwonders paint thingy.
a roll of paper that I keep rolling up and a woolly willy drawing thing
My bedroom- a jumprope, something I got in the mail but dont knwo what it is. I was keeping it incase I figured it out. and a bag of raindeer food(dont ask)
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I have been doing this all day long, I am so excitied to see this post! I have a huge pile of stuff I have listed on free cycle. It feels so good! Lets see I got rid of
Playstation games
cds
pda programs
ds clothes
dd clothes
homeschooling books
stuffed animals
bowling balls
moon shoes
Karate stuff
roller blades
and much more
Yeah for all of us!
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I'm reading your lists and thinking...hey Jungle book, I want it, roller blades...I want it, moon shoes...hey those are good...I need therapy!!!!
I went through and scrubbed and through a ton of stuff away from the refridgerator today. That was an accomplishment.
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This was bound to happen- I was impatiently waiting for my mom to take the girls for an overnighter so I could purge the girls rooms- to make space for their new things from Christmas. I was trying to get rid of equal # of the new toys, how about I got rid of double the amount of new toys! I am guilty of having a mom who buys things constantly for my gilrs (they get something new every week!)- I only found a few broken toys in both rooms (filled half a kitchen sized garbage bag)- but for the nicer toys I filled 3 huge trash can containers! Yippee! Now I have to go and vacuum! It just dawned on me how pathetic I have become- Sat. night no kids and I am excited about getting rid of a bunch of toys? Gosh- I really need to get a life! !
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Does last night count??? We purged our girls rooms WITH their help.
papers..... TONS of them, with doodle marks and bleed through marker on them
dried up markers
broken crayons
candy wrappers! They aren't supposed to have ANY food of any kind in their rooms
broken toys
shoes shoes shoes outgrown and worn out and tons! I asked them to get rid of the shoes we are replacing as we buy them and instead I find them in the bottom of the closet. They still have too many but it's a huge start because these are SHOPPING girls! lol
All in all we filled up a garbage bag and this is after doing this LAST weekend!
We purchased three under the bed totes on sale at walmart and organized the toys so that they roll under and no more messes! They are only allowed to get out ONE type of tote stuff at a time and put it away before getting somthing else out. It works great!
I'm going to work on OUR bedroom next!.......
PS stevesgal your not the only one that can't wait until the kiddo's head to papa's or grammy's to clean! It's total bliss around here to clean and purge without guilt and uh mooooooooooooooom! NO! That's my favorite!!! I was keeping that....I'll pick it up..... aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! cleaning while they are not home is better!
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We are going to goodwill tomorrow. I am so excited. We are getting rid of
a vacumn
computer monitor
2 printers
bag of clothes
framed art
and a ton of empty boxes. We have a huge basement and so we save boxes, just in case we need to return an item or something. I emptied out a ton of boxes.
Oh yeah, and a fireplace screen that has candles in it.
It feels great! Keep up the good work everyone!
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one kitchen cupboard
1. 10 cans of catfood that is at least a year old and that my cats hate.
2. mug that doesn't belong to me
3.old visitation list for my DS and his Dad that is WAY out of date
#2 kitchen cabinet
1. sport bottle that didn't pass the dishwasher test
2. Blues Clues cup that is too babyish for my DSs
3. disposable cup (why did I waste time washing that to begin with?)
under kitchen sink
1. stove top wipes and liquid that came with my new stove...when it was new.
2. 2 plastic cereal containers that I use to put bag cereal in before my DH decided he hated bag cereal
3. many lids to containers long gone
utensil drawer
1. nasty pot holder
2. extra ice cream scoop
3. can opener that is impossible to use
silverwear drawer.
1. "part" of medicine squirter things
2. at least 4 sets of toddler siverwear
3.straw from a sipper bottle long gone.
I'm gonna keep going!
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I purged my clothes and my oldest daughter clothes today! Have 7 garbage bags FULL of clothes to donate... *blush* Also have a bag of stuffed animals and doll stuff to donate...
Tomorrow I go into my sons room.. Wish me luck! !