02-12-20, 04:49 PM | |
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I finally made some progress:
-trashed a bunch of old makeup -filled a bag of clothing to donate -filled a bag of dvds to donate for my library sale -donating over 50 books to my.library for their sale I actually have open space on my bookshelves!
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02-12-20, 09:57 PM | |
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Sherry, great to make space on your bookshelves!
Mary, I think it's tougher to give up stuff that we haven't had very long, like your 1-year old desk. But sometimes we just have to admit that whatever it is isn't working well for us and would be better off with someone else. Everyone else is doing a great job too! We just found out that they are opening a Goodwill BOOKS in our area...this could be trouble for us.
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02-13-20, 10:39 AM | |
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Sherry wonderful that you've got some open space now on your bookshelves! So often I have a hard time seeing progress in more space or open space even though I'm continually trying to move things. There is hope!
Yesterday a fellow crafter came over to look at some craft materials I'm sorting through. They took a lot of it thankfully. I wasn't planning on charging anything but they wanted to pay something for it and were thrilled with what they got. I was thrilled with a little extra pocket change. I'm continuing to slowly add to the current thrift box and have a bid on one of my items on ebay. Inch by inch.
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02-13-20, 10:50 AM | |
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My DH and I started last October. We have been going through one room at a time to get rid of stuff. We loaded up the car with bags of clothes, shoes, books, kitchen appliances that we never use, and dropped them of at Goodwill. I can't believe how much non unusable things that I threw out. Each week for about a month, I would fill the garbage can with unusable stuff. It is amazing how much you can accumulate in a decade, without realizing it. I have no idea what we are going to do with all his and my family pictures. Seems like when a relative dies, they send everything to us.
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02-13-20, 11:25 AM | |
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Thanks for the encouragement!
Beth, you are so lucky! I did not even know Goodwill has stores just for books.
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02-13-20, 11:27 AM | |
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Me neither! I'll let you know how it is after we check it out.
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