Muffins

Sigh.... I spend a bit of time last night baking some muffins in the hopes that Mr. Toss everything solid to eat on the floor might try them. This morning he just tossed it straight to the ground without even tasting it. Mind you that may not have been a bad thing. It turns out I forgot to add the sugar so they aren't exactly the tastiest things out there. I may try again tomorrow and see if they are better with the sugar.

eBay

I swear, eBay is out to get me this week.  I'm in purge mode right now and I want to post a bunch of things on eBay and I can't.  I cannot get past the "pick a category" stage.  It keeps telling me I haven't picked a category and won't let me go any further.  It is super frustrating and I haven't had a reply from eBay help yet even though it's been a few days.

I'm on a roll and would like to continue. Stupid software bugs.

Clothing Purges

I've in the past week been working on clothing purges.  My hubby, Munchkin and I really do have to many clothes.  We many not necessarily have the right clothing, but in general we have too much.

On Sunday I did the Munchkin pile.  My sister was bringing over a few boxes of baby/toddler clothes that a coworker had passed along for me.  He is very nice that way which is awesome.  However I was running out of room to store all the clothing I have for my little guy (several people have given us stuff which is most appreciated but can be a little hard on the storage space).  So we lay everything out on the bed by type and size and did an evaluation.  There was stuff in the great pile from 6-9 months all the way up to 4 years old.  Mind you as the size goes up there is less stuff.   Little boys start wearing it out.

We kept a large amount of stuff, but were also able to put a bag aside for Goodwill and 2 diaper boxes for on of my sister's friends.  Now all I have to do is go through the too small stuff I have and divide it up for the people I will be passing it along to.   And I have to make a Goodwill bag of stuff I don't think my friends will use.


Next post......purging my clothes.

Yay less stuff!

Today was a good day in the reducing stuff we own.  We returned a baby swing and glider to someone we had borrowed them from.  We no longer need either of the items.

Our Munchkin doesn't really use a swing anymore and we have replaced the glider with an old fashioned rocking chair as our Mr. Munchkin doesn't seem to want to hang out in a glider.

But less stuff in the house is great!

I also spent part of the day going through Munchkin's baby clothing and I have another big pile of too small/won't fit next summer clothing to go to any boy children we know.

Great Article on how to simplify

I just read a great article on how to simplify life and I thought I would share it.

Simplify your life by Eliminating these 7 Problems

I think it's given me some items to ponder and see about implementing.  I am really on the bandwagon of the less stuff the less responsibility.

A Mish Mash of stuff

I haven't been posting so much lately.  It's been a bit of a whirlwind here.  Lots of things on the go and little time to sit, contemplate and write.

As to the busy.  We've been having a number of medical appointments with our Munchkin so that's been taking up a bunch of our time.  We are also in the middle of a renovation (bathroom) so I've been working being out of the house as much as possible with Munchkin for the renos to get done without him there.  And just general seeing people and running errands.  It all seems to take so much more time with a small person.

So on to the getting rid of stuff.  I forgot to take a picture of my porch full of stuff that went last week.  It was beautiful.  Sadly it doesn't look like it in the house.  Mind you, a truckload of renovation garbage went this week too and the back porch doesn't look like anything was taken.  Funny that.  Stuff just seems to sprawl to all available space.

I haven't really been getting rid of a lot of stuff because of the busy.  But I did return a bunch of borrowed baby items to a friend who had been very gracious and lent them to me.  That made me feel good on two fronts.

1.  the stuff left the house
2.  I got the person the stuff back in good condition and nothing bad happened to it.

Another reason, is I'm working on getting the house back in some semblance of order/cleanliness after destruction. It's a lot of work, but I'm working on getting rid of some stuff while I do it.

Getting closer

I'm getting quite excited.  This Thursday, I'm having a lot of the stuff I've been purging picked up by a local charity.   Right now there are bags and boxes of stuff all over the house just waiting to go.  Having all of the stuff actually gone is going to make me feel more accomplished about the purging I've been doing.

Yay!  Let's just hope they show up this time.  Last time the other charity didn't.  I have high hopes though.  I'll see about taking a picture of it before the pile goes and posting it.

It's very interesting though.  I'm told that sometimes if stuff sits around in bags waiting to go, you are tempted to take it out and keep it.  I haven't been feeling that, which is good.  I think my desire to be rid of stuff is greater than my desire to keep some of it.

I've got more purging to do, but it seems to be going well.  Yay less stuff.