sons' alma mater band dept was having a clothing drive fundraiser for united cerebral palsy. your non-profit can put together a drive and they pay you by the pound.
between 8 people (my sister's and our family) we came up with 73 pounds, or 3 lawn bags full. the third bag was about 5 pounds shy of the requested 23#/bag, so my son and i were running around the house trying to find more things! depending on the item, 1# is roughly equivalent to a pair of adult jeans. it was funny - i was sweating running around between the kitchen and 2 bedrooms.
i have also been updating my spreadsheet of fitness DVDs. OMG. it also spurred me to start thinking of items i should start purging.
i've also started to cull my collection of cookbooks, enough to almost empty a container, cutting my collection in half.
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~jeannine
Miyagi: Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off. Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off. Don't forget to breathe, very important.
[walks away, still making circular motions with hands] ~ Pat Morita, The Karate Kid, 1984
disclosure: in the years 2002-2004 i had a professional relationship with a distributor of fitness videos; see profile.
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