I did a house purge in January of 2017 and thought everything was in order. It seems that this process needs to be an annual event. This past week, I repeated the process and sure enough, things were equivalently in disarray.
The easy stuff was 4 lawn and leaf bags full of boxes (shoes, small appliances, china set, etc). Then it was sorting donation items. I have a full bin of clothes that are mostly from the closet, but some were in storage downstairs. I grabbed some engineering textbooks and novels to donate. Then it was an old Tivo and VCR. Next there were some household goods including a dish drying rack and a magazine rack. The biggest pile of stuff to sort was bags. We picked our favorites and still had a lot of luggage, shoe bags and backpacks to donate. It is going to be quite a few trips to Goodwill. We may even have enough for a yard sale.
At this point stuff that lives in the basement was identified. I was able to go through our finished and unfinished storage and get everything accessible that needs to be accessible. I binned up a lot of stuff from hobbies I am less active in (arduino, raspberry pi, reloading) and was able to squirrel away a lot of clutter.
Outstanding items include going through books, VHS tapes, DVDs, CDs and office supplies. We have a tremendous amount of office supplies that need to be accessible.
The easy stuff was 4 lawn and leaf bags full of boxes (shoes, small appliances, china set, etc). Then it was sorting donation items. I have a full bin of clothes that are mostly from the closet, but some were in storage downstairs. I grabbed some engineering textbooks and novels to donate. Then it was an old Tivo and VCR. Next there were some household goods including a dish drying rack and a magazine rack. The biggest pile of stuff to sort was bags. We picked our favorites and still had a lot of luggage, shoe bags and backpacks to donate. It is going to be quite a few trips to Goodwill. We may even have enough for a yard sale.
At this point stuff that lives in the basement was identified. I was able to go through our finished and unfinished storage and get everything accessible that needs to be accessible. I binned up a lot of stuff from hobbies I am less active in (arduino, raspberry pi, reloading) and was able to squirrel away a lot of clutter.
Outstanding items include going through books, VHS tapes, DVDs, CDs and office supplies. We have a tremendous amount of office supplies that need to be accessible.
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