Not quite a horder - decluttering

Wendy's chili for lunch today -- thanks for the suggestion...

Another day and the stuff is still riding around with me.... is it  because I'm not motivated or is it because I'm trying to find the "best" place for this stuff.I thought I did good getting rid of the two chairs... this is getting ridiculous!

I love Wendy's chili and their iced tea is the best. I order 1/2 1/2 that is 1/2 sugar and 1/2 without so it's not so sweet. I usually drink my iced tea without sugar so this is a treat!   What I'm really anting is the chocolate ice-cream, that doesn't suck up in the straw.... I never could figure that one out!

We have a drive through Salvation Army drop off, open 10-4 Mon thru Sat and it is great to just pull in and a couple of men will unload your car and give you a donation receipt.   

Since I am allergic to chocolate, I found individual Bear Claws with almonds at the local 7/11 and that is today's "breakfast" before I go off to the Legion flea market to sell soda and water.   It is cool and cloudy, so I should not sweat my @$$ off.... Then bingo tonight.   Enjoy, Hugs, Nancy

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Our first flea market at the American Legion was cancelled due to rain, but I did get the stuff unloaded from my car and into a storage closet over there.   Not a lot, odd and ends of kitchen stuff, bowls, cups and 2 chairs I rescued from the apartment dumpster.    It all will go towards the roof repair project.    

Other than that, I schredded  a bunch of papers and weeded thru my filing cabinet a bit.     

This apartment building has a trash chute at the end of each floor, but does not recycle.   I do by putting paper in one bag, glass and metal in another , then the rest of the trash in another.   At least it is separated when it goes down the chute.    There is a large dumpster for furniture and large items - where I got the 2 discarded chairs.    

My plan is to shred old file papers...I even got some lubricating sheets made for my shredder so it doesn't bet bogged down. I guess they're supposed to keep the "teeth" sharp. We'll see!

I had never heard of lubricating sheets, that sounds like a good idea.  I wonder if shredding aluminum foil would help sharpen the blades?  We used to cut foil with our scissors to clean them up.

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Hi!  I really appreciate your tips...My hubby and I are planning to relocate in October to another province, and I am slowly going through our stuff.  Sometimes I'll open a box I haven't looked in, in years, and will "ooooh" and "awwww" over some of it's contents. "oooooh, this is soooo cute!" But then I'll tell myself that it can't mean that much to me, if I forgot I had it. lol  This decluttering is so much work, but I don't want to pack stuff I don't need.  I plan to donate all my baby girl stuff, she's 2 now, and my oncologist thinks having another child would be a bad idea for my health.  I wanted to donate all her stuff to the victims of Slave Lake, here in Alberta. (1/2 their community burned down in a forest fire) but they have 3 warehouses full of stuff that people donated, and aren't taking anymore.  So instead, I'll donate it to young mothers in need, I think it's called Bent Arrow, here in Edmonton.  Anyways, thanks again for your tips!

Cheers!

I have a housecleaner/organizer scheduled to help me the week of June 6!  I had to admit I cannot do this on my own by myself, so have hired someone to help.  She will also take things out of the house to our local charity, so that takes one more barrier away from me! 

Wish I had the energy to do a yard sale, but mostly I just want to get some order back into my environment.