Not so Much in the past couple of Days

In order to keep myself motivated, I'm going to try and keep a mostly daily record of the purging here.  It may end of being not quite so daily as I do get busy with my little Munchkin, but I will try.  And there should be some other stuff in here, with the fun stuff I hopefully get time to do.

I didn't really work on the purging yesterday.  I did more fun things like go on a picnic.  But I did manage to pass off some of the shoes that I have decided to rid myself of to a friend who will give them a good home.  I have two more people getting some shoes.  Then the rest will either be sold or sent off to Goodwill.

Hopefully I can make the pile go soon.

Shoes Shoes Shoes

So today was the day I went through my shoe collection and tried them all on to see if they fit after having my small person.    I figure almost 9 months is long enough to wait.

Sadly most of my shoes had to go.  It sucks.  You think that the one thing that doesn't change about you is your shoe size.  Gain/lose weight your feet would still stay the same.  Or so I thought.  I'm a half size at least bigger than before.  Mind you I think my feet started to get longer before I got pregnant.  

I think I've had to get rid of over 20 pairs of shoes/boots.  All of my fun shoes are gone now and most likely will never be replaced.  Many of the shoes are no longer made.  

Goodbye Platforms, Buckle Boots, Fluevogs, Swears and assorted other nifty and cool shoes!  You were awesome and I loved you.  May your new homes treat you well.  I will miss you.

And now I have lots of lovely empty space where the shoes were.  

And may there be nifty shoes in my future.

I do feel lighter now though.

Getting rid of the past

I find it interesting the reasons why it can be so hard to get rid of stuff.  There is the obvious one I usually seem to have trouble with is the "but's it's useful" or will be someday.  As a boss once said "I ended up buying new ones anyway because I couldn't find the useful stuff in the basement".  So he pretty much emptied the basement.  I kind of like that idea to a certain degree. I shall be working on it.

So today I've been working on the keeping stuff because of memories/sentimental value.  I went through a few of my clothes in the basement.  These are things that I don't want to let go of because they remind me of fun times in the past or who I used to be and would perhaps want to be again.  There are also items that I just like to remember and like to think I would wear again.

So today I got rid of a few a few items.  One was a jean jacket I used to love.  Way back when, Black Label (the beer for those who don't know) had a fabulous ad campaign (I think it was at least 20 year ago now).  Really cool graphics and the like.  I was the lucky recipient of a boatload of the promotional material (ie. jackets, T-shirts, watches etc).    I've hung onto the jacket ever since.  I'm never going to wear it, again, but it brings back good memories, especially of the caring and kindness of the person who arranged for me to get all this stuff.    But today I decided that it was time to let it go.  So it's in the pile to go up on Ebay.  I'll have a picture of it and some fond memories.

The other that I'm letting go of a bit is some of my uber goth clothing.  It doesn't really fit anymore and it should just go.  But it feels like I'm loosing a little bit of who I am by doing that.  But the stuff has got to go.  We don't have the room and I need less stuff to look after.

The other easier things to let go of have been the rollerblades from the failed "learning how to rollerblade " incident from at least 7 or 8 years ago.

Now all of this stuff is in the house, it's just all prepared for leaving.

I think I'm feeling a little lighter already.

KNITTING!!!

I forgot to mention this....  I actually had a few minutes to knit in August.  I was at the cottage and a certain Munchkin would actually sleep in a crib like thing for little while.  So I had time to knit.  It was kind of cool.  I of course knit a baby hat for someone.  But I got to knit and it was awesome!

Getting there

So today I managed to post a couple of pairs of shoes on Ebay.   It's a start on the shoe purge.   It pains me to get rid of them.  I do like them, but they no longer fit me.  Stupid feet growing while pregnant.

I'm getting the feeling that ebay is the way to go on selling stuff.  My efforts at selling items on Craigslist don't seem to work well.  I've only managed to sell 1 item successfully ever on Craigslist.  I've bought items and that's gone well, but I just seem to end up with all the flaky people who don't show up.

Ebay can be annoying to, so we shall see.

I did try on a couple of more pairs of shoes today and sadly they didn't fit.  Tomorrow I'll have to do something with them.  I think most of my "gothy" shoes and boots will get sold on ebay or craigslist as I feel like I should get something back from them and they would be likely to at least get at some money too.

I'm slowly getting there with the decluttering.

And the purging be slow

Got a little sidetracked over the past couple of days.  Yesterday was on the busy side with exercise class, birthday parties and the like.  And today was a bit of a write off.  Due to all the storming and the like my brain has been mush.  Which kind of sucks.

But yesterday I did at least manage to get rid of a couple of pairs of shoes. Well, they are in the Goodwill bag waiting to go.  But that's essentially getting rid of them.  I really do have to sit down and go through my shoes and purge them.  I keep putting it off in the hopes that my feet will shrink.  But I think they aren't going to.  It's been 8 months since Mr. Munchkin came along and other than not being all puffy and swollen they haven't shrunk any lengthwise.

It's a cruel trick.  You always think that your feet stay the same.  No fat or how skinny you are, your shoes will stay the same.  Not true!!!!  Getting pregnant can make them grow :(

There are so many of my shoes that I'm hoping I will fit back into one day.  Alas I don't think it will happen.

And the Purging Continues

More work on general purging today.  We've had to evacuate part of the kitchen for our bathroom renovation.  We need access to the pipes and stuff in the ceiling.  So we are juggling even more stuff around the house right now as we had to empty a shelving unit, and a bank of cupboards that our glassware lives in.  We also had to rearrange some of the kitchen to accommodate the fridge and the like.  Well, my husband moved around most of the stuff while I was out avoiding dust with our little Munchkin.

So I'm taking this opportunity to get rid of a few things.  Some glassware is going and some other miscellaneous items that seem not to have a home in the kitchen.

I think I'm pretty much going on a rampage here.  I really really need the clutter to go away.  It's driving me insane.

Cookbooks

And so my attempts to purge are continuing.  It's actually pretty hard sometimes for me to let go of things.  You often think you might need it some day and you will get around to making something, doing something with it etc................

But, the house is full and constantly messy which is bothering me even more so out things must go.

This morning I worked on cookbooks and recipes.  I love looking at recipes and planning what I'm going to make.  So I've often clipped recipes, saved magazines and bought a few cookbooks with the intent on making these items.  The reality is that I often don't get around to it.  Sad but true.

So this morning I copied a bunch of recipes I've recently looked at and would like to make into my recipe database with not to try them and tossed the paper out.  I got even more into it and got rid of a number of cookbooks I never use.  I even just got rid of a giant pile of "possible recipes"  I collected them years ago and haven't made them.  So out they went.

I think my new rule about cookbooks is that if I haven't used them for more than a year, they should be gotten rid of.  I also vow to copy recipes to my database so if I get rid of a cookbook it I won't lose a recipe.  Publish Post

I do have a few books I need to go through and copy the 1 or 2 recipes I use and then get rid of them.  But then my cookbook purge should be done.

I feel very accomplished this morning.  And a bit lighter.  Although I think the bit lighter will feel even better when the bag of stuff is out of the house.